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Communities adapting to climate change can learn from revolutionary conservation method
… Muyeye Chambwera and colleagues studied examples of Community-Based Natural Resource Management, a name for systems … and derive direct economic benefits from them. This approach to conservation and development has enabled communities to cope with a … them. The researchers identified eight key lessons that CBNRM has for community based adaptation: Blending strategies for sustainable …
News, 03 May 2012
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Consent and conservation: getting the most from community protocols
… knowledge and genetic resources, and calls for support of ‘community protocols’ that set out rules for access and benefit sharing. Community protocols are not just about indigenous rights: they clarify … the Nagoya Protocol with national laws and institutions, and support community-led participatory processes. Follow the links below for more …
Publication, 01 October 2012
Motmot bird in Costa Rica
IIED and partner events at the World Conservation Congress 2020
… A host of events took place at the delayed 2020 World Conservation Congress  in Marseille, France, from 3 to 11 September 2021. It was organised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the French government, and the global nature conservation community – including top international experts in conservation science, …
Event, 03 September 2021
A beekeeper in Guatemala finds an alternative source of income. Photo: Todd Post/Bread for the World Institute
Judging the effectiveness of alternative livelihoods projects
… Alternative livelihoods projects are a common conservation intervention. They are designed to conserve biodiversity by … improve the wellbeing of certain targeted groups of people. The donor community has invested in alternative livelihoods activities for decades as a means of linking conservation and development. Yet very little is known about what has …
Project, 16 August 2013
Man bending down to look at a mangrove in a forest area.
From CBA19 to the global climate negotiations: nature must take centre stage
… led adaptation The impacts of climate change and coastal ecosystem conservation on gender justice and women’s fisher groups Delivering just … Afro-Brazilian knowledge and mangrove protection in a Quilombola Community on Pernambuco’s Atlantic Forest coast, and Green spaces for …
Insight, 12 August 2025
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Mount Kenya: The economics of community conservation
… that recognise the need to involve - and benefit - local people in conservation.~The paper illustrates how traditional exclusionist … where forest resources are conserved parallel to a growth in community economic welfare. However, it is concluded that, if community-based conservation is to be achieved, then firstly, …
Publication, 01 January 1999
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Diversity and sustainability in community based conservation
… Paper presented at the UNESCO-IIPA regional workshop on Community-based Conservation, February 9-12, 1997, India. "Community based conservation" and "peoples' participation" have become … Diversity and sustainability in community based conservation …
Publication, 01 February 1997
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PLA 55: Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa
Article, 01 December 2006
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Scaling up ecosystem-based adaptation: lessons from Viet Nam
Publication, 09 July 2025
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Conservation with social justice? The role of community conserved areas in achieving the Millennium Development Goals
… most governments and international agencies give so little support to community systems that have long protected such resources? Everyone … valuable local institutions can fulfil their potential and deliver on conservation with social justice. … Conservation with social justice? The role of community conserved areas in achieving the Millennium Development Goals …
Publication, 01 August 2005