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Coral reefs provide us with goods worth hundreds of billions of dollars but are in decline. Copyright: 2004 Richard Ling
How to protect our oceans: use more carrots
… other resources ensuring broad participation of the communities and community-based organisations promoting transparency and accountability … (an absence of corruption and misuse of funds allocated for conservation); and writing off ‘perverse’ subsidies that encourage … in the forthcoming book Economic Incentives for Marine and Coastal Conservation edited by IIED researcher Essam Yassin Mohammed. IIED will …
Insight, 01 November 2013
A native bird in Costa Rica found in a payments for environmental services project run by IIED and FONAFIFO (Photo Ina Porras)
Who will pay for ecosystem services?
… private landowners have been actively and successfully involved in conservation and reforestation activities since 1997. It makes perfect … bottom-up. For example, successful strategies to help smallholder and community projects reach international carbon markets include: Accessing … Vivo Standard , the Verified Carbon Standard ( VCS ) or the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance ( CCBA ) Standard Ex-ante crediting, …
Insight, 28 January 2014
Floating boards on a lake, hiding the fish farming cages underneath
Lessons for building a natural capital legacy
… Authority (NPA) , working with the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), IIED and the  Institute for …
Insight, 16 August 2021
New Potato Deal in Peru Signposts Global Drive to Open Up Food Genebanks to Indigenous Peoples
… for local and global benefit. The initiative will be conducted in a conservation "potato park" in southern Peru where indigenous peoples can … and this agreement restores these rights whilst recognising that "the conservation, sustainable use and development of maximum … a lack of political and financial commitment from the international community, including the UK, to help build the capacity of civil society …
News, 18 January 2005
An IIED workshop that aims to explore the latest thinking on REDD+ gets under way (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Coverage of Moving ahead with REDD+: Prospects and challenges workshop
… participants from multilateral agencies, governments, research and conservation organisations, and the private sector. The agenda is … Forestry Research (CIFOR) and University of Leeds Session three: Community carbon trading: does the market pay and what is in it for … at pilot project level , by Charles Meshak, of Tanzania Forest Conservation Group IIED's future work in REDD+ ,  by  Isilda Nhantumbo …
Event, 09 April 2014
The Amaru community, in Peru, do not use any fertiliser on their crops (Image: Adam Kerby)
'Guardians of Diversity' film in Spanish and Chinese
News, 16 February 2015
A wholesale fish market in Cox's Bazar on the Bay of Bengal. Fishing communities need access to finance and infrastructure such as clean water, refrigeration and transport (Photo: Aftab Uzzaman, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Untangling the net: what does 'leave no one behind' mean for fishers?
… in a developing country – specifically using the case of a fishing community in the Lower Meghna Basin in Bangladesh where I spent a great … and international legitimacy and for delivering on social and conservation objectives. So our policy interventions should not only … structure', which involves multiple stakeholders with economic and conservation or management objectives, is key in understanding how …
Insight, 11 July 2016
Cover for 17086IIED.pdf
Beyond forestry: why agriculture is key to the success of REDD+
Publication, 01 November 2010
Farmers analyse local maize varieties in the Karst mountains, Southwest China. IIED's work includes participatory plant breeding and community supported agriculture (Photo: IIED)
Can ecosystem-based adaptation help deliver the promise of Paris?
Insight, 13 January 2017
Cover for G02510.pdf
Company-Led Approaches to Conflict Resolution in the Forest Sector
… between companies and communities or civil society organisations over conservation priorities, environmental pollution and benefit sharing. …
Publication, 01 July 2009