Search results

888 results
Women discuss forest management at a Community Forest User Group meeting in Nepal. Photo: WOCAN
Gender and REDD+
… and act as an incentive for local communities to participate in conservation, such as patrolling, reporting illegal harvesting and …
Project, 12 September 2013
An image from new animation Securing the land rights of people affected by dams in West Africa (Image: Hands Up/IIED)
GWI animation: how to secure land rights of people affected by dams
… project implemented by IIED and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The video is also available in French (en …
News, 09 February 2017
Cover for G03164.pdf
Forest Governance Learning Group - Uganda: 2011 work plan
… on alternative models for benefit sharing in forestry, to ensure community participation and benefit; finalise the study on illegal … in the oil and gas industry related to forest and biodiversity~conservation in the Albertine Graben in Uganda (and bordering countries). …
Publication, 01 January 2011
An example of crops grown through no-till farming in Western Australia (Photo: Bill Crabtree)
Spreading the word about the no-till agricultural revolution
… increased organic matter and water retention capacity, and why conservation agriculture contributes to mitigate climate change. … He experimented and ended up adopting only some of the principles of conservation agriculture. The three basic principles to conservation agriculture are rotating the crops grown on the land, …
Insight, 31 March 2014
People from Kandadji village, which is due to be flooded, meet to discuss resettlement plans (Photo: Jamie Skinner)
Niger hosts forum on securing land rights in irrigated areas
… and regional level by IIED and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Guinea; … the GWI West Africa website . IUCN  – The International Union for the Conservation of Nature  (IUCN) assists in finding practical solutions to …
News, 07 May 2014
Some ecological settings, such as drylands, which are home to a high proportion of the world’s poor, are poorly studied and have become the neglected 'ugly duckling' of biodiversity research (Photo: Marie Monimart)
What we know about how biodiversity and poverty are linked: The good, the bad and the ugly
… the evidence that need filling in order to maximise synergies between conservation and development. IIED and the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre recently undertook just such a study — … be enshrined in the sustainable development goals. The scientific community can help to address the bias by paying greater attention to …
Insight, 31 March 2014
A REDD strategy team talk to farmer Nimale Maribu at the Meceburi Forest Reserve, Mozambique. Photo: Mike Goldwater
Testing REDD+ in Mozambique
… viable or not. The programme trialled four interventions : to expand conservation agriculture, to make logging more sustainable, to harvest …
Project, 01 October 2013
Local sheep varieties in the Potato Park, Peru, where an agreement was recently forged to share indigenous crop varieties and knowledge about how to grow them in different climates and landscapes (Photo: IIED)
Indigenous farmers from Peru, China and Bhutan agree to share seeds for climate adaptation
… Innovation  to discuss the implementation of agrobiodiversity conservation areas. "Achieving sustainable food security in a world with …
News, 08 May 2014
Seu Amilton showing his practices at the forest dialogue in Brazil
The Forests Dialogue
… forest sector Free, prior and informed consent (the principle that a community has the right to give or withhold its consent to proposed … poverty Intensively managed planted forests Forests and biodiversity conservation Illegal logging and forest governance, and Forest …
Project, 07 September 2013
A woman farmer bends over to tend crops in a field
One-size-fits-all policies won’t deliver sustainable farming in Africa
… that deliver long-term benefits – such as long-term soil and water conservation, appropriate mechanisation and developing institutions that …
News, 26 April 2020