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Good governance key to success of payments to tackle deforestation and climate change
… a global policy to address climate change. The deal will have forest conservation at its heart as deforestation and forest degradation … crucial co-benefits including poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation," says Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff of the International …
News, 05 June 2009
Cover for 15503IIED.pdf
CAMPFIRE and payments for environmental services
… (PES) as a means to advance the goals of both poverty reduction and conservation. Payments for Environmental Services are compensation …
Publication, 01 July 2006
Our annual report highlights pathways to change (Photo: Olivier Girard/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED Annual Report 2017/18
… mineral processing facilities. We are also using dialogues to drive community forestry: working with communities across the Congo Basin, …  is helping to create more sustainable and equitable livelihoods from community forests. In July 2017, stakeholders from five countries … could deliver significant sustainable domestic income and support conservation goals. Our consultancy on valuing forest products evolved …
Page, 24 October 2018
Fishing boats
Delivering sustainable fisheries through fiscal incentives
… that support sustainable practices can make a difference to the conservation and sustainable use of fisheries resources. For example, …
Project, 31 July 2019
Cover for 13506IIED.pdf
The utility of forest ethics: A proposed approach based on field work in Vietnam
… of value by stakeholders and draws attention to the tension between conservation and use of forest resources. The paper suggests that all …
Publication, 01 October 2005
A buffet of Ugandan food
Science with citizens, or science for citizens?
… It was organised by WWF Netherlands and the International Union for Conservation of Nature National Committee of the Netherlands, and the … people in Ecuador, Hernán Payaguaje, described how they use community mapping to support legal battles to protect their ancestral … good for a purpose – rather than simply good. For example, while the community mapping used by indigenous people of Ecuador is done using …
Insight, 23 July 2019
Women harvesting brinjal near the Indian city of Gorakhpur. Peri-urban agriculture helps to ensure local food supplies, especially of fruit and vegetables (Photo: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group)
Farming on the city's periphery to enhance resilience
Insight, 09 June 2015
The author with cocoa farmers in Ghana. Farmers on average receive 3 per cent of a chocolate bar price and many are dependent on a single commodity for their livelihoods (Photo: Marisa Camargo)
Zero deforestation supply chains: promoting sustainable chocolate
… in population and the growing middle class. This faces the global community with a difficult challenge: how do we increase productivity …
Insight, 16 September 2015
Cover for G02050.pdf
Adapting PRA to protected area management in Central Africa (PLA Notes 47)
… management plans for protected areas has to strike a balance between conservation aims and allowing access to natural resources. In this … 1987, PLA has provided a forum for participatory practitioners – community workers, activists and researchers – to share experiences, …
Publication, 01 August 2003
Delivering REDD+: can past lessons help in tempering optimism and making headway?
… equally developing policy and legal instruments to enable company-community partnerships that reduce emissions (especially in agricultural … laws in the late 1990s that acknowledge customary rights and allow community land registration. But more than a decade later, only a …
Insight, 09 May 2011