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The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
… Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and IIED under Friends of EBA  Speakers: … and informing policy. Research overview and overarching questions Community-based adaptation: research, practice and partnerships for … innovative examples of adaptation are being implemented at the community level to address food and water security and to build …
Event, 06 November 2017
New website shows how nature plus culture equals resilience
… Practical tools and strategies for protecting biocultural systems: community biocultural protocols, registers, products and agreements. …
News, 18 May 2011
En route to San José, Costa Rica. Credit: cicsc1970
Nature has values, and markets can be governed
… Western Uganda a similar approach is being tested to promote habitat conservation for chimpanzees and other wildlife, compensating farmers … footprint through voluntary, ethical transactions and international conservation organisations, such as WWF , that are interested in … sources from hazardous investments and scams .  The environmental community has been rightly wary of markets. For ‘Payments for …
Insight, 10 August 2012
Cover for 14571IIED.pdf
The Pastoral Women's Council: Empowerment for Tanzania's Maasai
… The Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC) is a community-based organisation established in 1997 in Tanzania. It was … preventing the loss of land to the national promotion of tourism, conservation and large-scale commercial farming. Maasai pastoralist …
Publication, 01 August 2008
IIED's Krystyna Swiderska discusses the latest research on how indigenous people adapt to climate change at a side event at the 2016 UN climate conference in Marrakech (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
Indigenous people use own knowledge to boost food yields despite climate change, research finds
News, 22 November 2016
Cover for G02937.pdf
Participatory quota setting (PLA 55)
… responsibility for wildlife resources. In: PLA 55 Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa. Guest editors: Brian Child and Brian …
Publication, 01 December 2006
A man casting a net
Achieving transformational change for the ocean
… has various sub-targets related to sustainable fisheries, marine conservation, climate change, pollution, livelihoods and policy. … for SDG14 .  During the past year IIED worked with an international community of practice to develop the handbook to support …
Insight, 11 June 2019
Cover for 6027IIED.pdf
Wildlife Working for Sustainable Development
… The conservation of wildlife is sometimes presented as being at best …
Publication, 01 January 1988
First international gathering of forest producer organisations underway
… kind in giving the world’s many millions of smallholder farmer and community forest producers an opportunity to have their voices heard at … by the German forester Carlowitz: recent evidence points to family, community and indigenous forestry as the most effective strategy for long term forest conservation. "More than 30 per cent of the forests in developing …
News, 25 November 2013
Economics of controlling degradation: rehabilitating gum arabic systems in Sudan, The
… composes such benefits as wildlife and wildland products, ecotourism, community-based wildlife development, environmental services and the conservation of biodiversity. …
Publication, 01 January 1990