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Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms
… four out of the six households were at least using soil and water conservation techniques and in the other, half of the households. But no … permit communities and local government bodies to secure and manage community grazing areas in a participatory and consensual way. Stop the …
Article, 26 April 2020
A farmer's house and sugar cane field in Cambodia, where there is concern about large-scale investment in sugar plantations driving local people off the land (Photo: Brian Hoffman, via Creative Commons)
Human rights should be at the heart of investment policy making
… many contexts rights remain insecure and arrangements for meaningful community engagement fragile. This disconnection between investment … the World Investment Forum 2014 . Related: Human rights standards for conservation discussion paper Useful resources: Foreign investment, law …
Insight, 20 October 2014
PLA 32: Participation, Literacy and Empowerment
… with REFLECT, this issue demonstrates how participation must become a community-led dynamic that links analysis to action. This mirrors the … ranking Clare Hamilton, Alice Kaudia and David Gibbon Lessons from community empowerment programme formulation: Mission-2 of UNDP, … (gullies) are eating everything!' indigenous knowledge and soil conservation Graham Thiele and Franz Terrazas How to get reliable yield …
Article, 31 May 1998
New paradigm for African agriculture sees sustainable intensification in a new light
… secure land rights, and support from policymakers and the development community to help them to spread." The report begins by examining the … and allowing for sunlight to pass through during the growing season Conservation Farming in Zambia as a replacement for the traditional long …
News, 18 April 2013
Patently obvious: intellectual property rights could support small producers
… of other plant varieties, thereby undermining biodiversity conservation. For example, in the case of 100 per cent blue agave …
Insight, 14 November 2011
A Chinese journalist interviews fellow journalists in Kenya (Photo: YiDe Media)
China-Africa relations: Fresh perspectives from Chinese journalists on environmental challenges
… After visiting Karura Forest — an urban forest in Nairobi whose conservation was made possible through civil society movements led by …
Insight, 02 May 2014
A village in Burkina Faso. Land investment in Africa is growing driven by rises in global food prices, companies who see market opportunities in biofuels, and overseas countries anxious to secure their food supplies through direct investment. Photo: Tex
‘Land grabbing’ in Africa: Biofuels are not off the hook
… for agriculture may compound pressures from other sources, such as conservation or mining. Even a smaller aggregate scale of land …
Insight, 16 October 2013
Annual report 2007/08
… Human settlements Supporting slum dwellers’ savings plans:  community savings schemes and initiatives can improve life dramatically … Bridging the barriers between global issues:  IIED’s Poverty and Conservation Learning Group, which includes over 100 organisations, used …
Page, 23 December 2008
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167 Case Study5 Scaling-up Success in the Baimaxuseshan Nature Reserve, China
… in and around the Reserve and reduce conflicts with the existing conservation policies, WWF-China began working locally with selected …
Publication, 01 January 1970
COP17 in Durban: Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Christiana Figueres and the President of COP17, South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (Photo: Michael Mazengarb, Creative Commons via Flickr)
United Nations climate change negotiations: IIED at COP17
… beyond deforestation and forest degradation, and includes a role for conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of … the effectiveness of climate adaptation Improving information for community-based adaptation Rethinking climate change as a security …
Event, 20 December 2011