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Protecting the future: Carbon, forests, protected areas and local livelihoods
… Change (UNFCCC) could have significant implications for biodiversity conservation and for forest-dependent livelihoods. In the post-2012 … livelihoods is more variable. The early indications are that community-managed and indigenous reserves are often effective in achieving both goals, but that biodiversity conservation is not necessarily such a high priority within these areas. …
Publication, 01 January 2008
Illustration of people standing on a globe
FishNet: Inspiring action for sustainable fisheries
… FishNet started as a Ning community platform in 2013 and later relocated to Facebook. FishNet … meetings , which brought together people from academia, government, conservation and the media to discuss  sustainable fisheries and oceans … explore what fisheries have in common across the world and initiate community-based fisheries management Demystify the complex ideas …
Project, 11 August 2014
An artisanal fisherman in rural Bangladesh
Buy me an ocean: why we need payments for coastal and marine environments
Insight, 07 June 2012
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The Governance of Nature and the Nature of Governance: Policy that works for biodiversity and livelihoods
… local, national and international level. It reviews experience with community-based conservation, mainstreaming biodiversity, and the Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 November 2008
Assessing REDD+: beyond carbon measurements
… of the People provides a wealth of experience in implementing community-based natural resource management in Africa. It highlights the … non-timber based enterprises including tourism. It is true that some community-based natural resources management initiatives have failed to deliver long-term development and conservation benefits across Africa. That is partly the result of the …
Insight, 08 September 2011
A pastoral women in Ethiopia
Beyond survival – rethinking safety nets for pastoralists in Ethiopia
… also engage in public works activities, such as environmental conservation and infrastructure building. Now in its fourth phase, the …
Insight, 04 October 2018
Pope Francis met with indigenous leaders, including Yesica Patiachi who is from the Harakbut people, one of the three main ethnic groups in the Madre de Dios region
On pilgrimage in Madre de Dios: starting a journey to sustainable artisanal mining
… to pursue large-scale agriculture. He condemned the distortion of conservation policies that do not take into account the people who …
Insight, 07 February 2018
A fisherman looks at his latest huge catch of fish caught in nets
It is time to control fishing on the high seas to protect the life of the ocean and coastal people who depend on it
… through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas …
Insight, 08 June 2019
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Ngorongoro: Broken promises - What price our heritage?
… The government Ordinance that created the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania confirmed the legal right of Maasai and … herds to be evicted from their homeland in Tanzania in the name of conservation? Are they the victims of the flawed idea that people and …
Publication, 01 January 2008
Local farm foresters near Kumasi, Ghana. Evidence suggests that locally controlled forests are generally better for the forest and people than either protected areas or large-scale industrial business models (Photo: WWF)
Investing in locally controlled forestry – a planetary-scale solution for forests and people
… controlled forest and farm landscapes (that encompass indigenous, community and family smallholders) probably comprise the biggest rural … human misery and conflict in very many places where the interests of conservation or industrialised agriculture sweep them aside. A third … controlled forest and farm landscapes (that encompass indigenous, community and family smallholders) probably comprise the biggest rural …
Insight, 07 September 2016