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Pilot projects including the Bolsa Floresta forest stipend scheme in Amazonas, Brazil, help to combat deforestation in Brazil (Google re-use licensed)
How to assess what people want from REDD+
… other areas and projects could end prematurely, reversing any forest conservation gains. Therefore, for REDD+ programmes and projects to … experiments (in REDD+ pilots in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam, Ongo Community Forest, Uganda and Bolsa Floresta, Brazil).  All three … people wanted benefits to come to individuals while others preferred community-wide gains. But context is important. Votes for increases in …
Insight, 31 March 2014
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Revenue distribution for empowerment and democratisation (PLA 55)
… articles. Benefit sharing is a constant theme in the literature on community development. Brian Child describes how revenue distribution … been developed for participatory revenue allocation. Keywords: CBNRM, conservation, policy, poverty, marketing, tourism, quota setting, …
Publication, 01 December 2006
Example of bucket and pulley system on a traditional well - Senegal
Global Water Initiative: Senegal
… associated irrigation schemes. Reducing conflict over land through community participation Access to water and the use of land in the … container, to avoid cross-contamination. As a result of launching community-led total sanitation in three pilot villages, which replaced a … stakeholders in Tambacounda and to get local policies in place. Conservation areas have been marked out to reduce riverbank erosion and …
Project, 16 February 2018
Cooperative members at the Federation of Cooperatives of the Verapaces nursery in Cobán, Guatemala operate a compost packing machine. FEDECOVERA oversees the production of cardamom, allspice, coffee, tea, cocoa, essential oils, grains and vegetables (Photo: Juan José Ochaeta/FEDECOVERA)
IIED marks international forests day with major new research report and toolkit
… (FAO)  of the United Nations, the  International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and AgriCord . The Forest and Farm …
News, 21 March 2018
Boys polish chairs for sale in the furniture market, Nampula, Mozambique.
Introduction to locally-controlled forestry
… Peoples' fighting for territorial rights, organisations managing community forests or cooperatives that aggregate the products and … those relating to climate adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity conservation, food security and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) …
Article, 05 August 2013
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Protecting the world's oceans: three key tasks
… to provide a long-term benefit for themselves and for the global community.  IIED has been undertaking research on how economic … et al (2016) IIED Economic incentives for marine and coastal conservation , edited by Essam Mohammed (2013), Routledge Food and …
News, 08 June 2016
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Land Registration in Amhara Region, Ethiopia
… to yield the anticipate benefits of tenure security and environmental conservation, more emphasis is needed on awareness raising, capacity building at woreda (district) and community levels, support for conflict resolution mechanisms, and …
Publication, 01 December 2005
The Deramakot Forest Reserve, in Sabah, Malaysia, includes a strict protection area for biodiversity conservation and a reduced-impact logging area (Photo: Angela Sevin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Remembering Duncan Poore, a leading light in sustainable forestry
… heralded as a key shaper of the policies and practises that underpin conservation and sustainable forest management across the world . His … permission from the CFA. In the death of Duncan Poore, the forest community has lost one of its wisest guides to how forests should be … valuable today. At IUCN, too, he helped to shape the seminal World Conservation Strategy with Robert Prescott-Allen, presenting what is …
Article, 19 October 2016
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Evolution of Ecotourism in East Africa: From an idea to an industry, The
… environmental destruction and, when managed correctly, promote community development and empowerment. Development of an ecotourism … held in March 2002 in Nairobi, Kenya and organised by The African Conservation Centre. The conference explored ways to ensure that all …
Publication, 01 January 2003
Hotel Sri Tahjung
Rafts of rubber and a hotel for birds with spit that sells
… finding new ways to make withdrawals from nature’s bank, for others conservation has come along and created credit limits to long-held … of its forests are now reserved for logging or mining. But forest conservation also imposes limits on livelihoods for people with few …
Insight, 21 February 2012