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An artisanal fisherman in rural Bangladesh
Buy me an ocean: why we need payments for coastal and marine environments
… and marine ecosystems is often understated and ignored. This has led to overexploitation and degradation of the resource, reducing the quality and effectiveness of the benefits it … exacerbated by long-pursued regulatory approaches to fisheries management, which fail to incentivise fisher and coastal communities to …
Insight, 07 June 2012
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How to boost investment in locally controlled forestry in Mexico
… making unit about issues such as land use, production and natural resource management. For Mexico’s forestry to reach its potential, these … Most importantly, though, forest rights-holders and the investment community don’t understand each other’s needs and motivations. These concerns led the participants to envision a long-term scenario of successful …
Insight, 01 October 2013
View of Harpan village of Panchase – the upstream of Phewa Lake (Photo: Amit Poudyal/IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Nepal
Project, 26 June 2018
The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve in the Andean highlands, Peru (Photo: Karen Podvin)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Peru
… ” (in Spanish) held during the CBA 15 International Conference on Community-based Adaptation . IKI Peru newsletter  (in Spanish) June - … course  (in Spanish), which took place from 3 June to 5 July, and was led by IUCN and TMI. Three representatives from the Peruvian Ministry of … in ecosystems: knowledge, innovation and transformation of risk management’ (RELIEF Kit) (in Spanish only). The aim was to promote the …
Project, 04 September 2018
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Taking money to making money: SPARC, NSDF and Mahila Milan transform low-income shelter options in India
… to shelter options for low-income households and supported community-led development. This paper looks at the financial design developed over … with the Mumbai-based NGO the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC). This paper looks at the alliance’s work …
Publication, 01 January 2017
Prema Gopalan stands centre stage in an orange sari. Two men present her with a certificate; two others stand behind and applaud.
Prema Gopalan remembered
… Prema Gopalan co-founded the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC) with Sheela Patel in 1984. One of the largest … of the government of Maharashtra, by producing a unique women-driven, community-led assessment and retrofitting 900 villages in these districts.  This …
News, 23 May 2022
A Subanen harvest dance during a colourful street dancing competition of Kinabayo Festival. Community action by the Subanen tribe in Midsalip prevents mining companies from encroaching their land (Photo: Mark Navales/Google Licence)
Citizen power: Sustaining paralegal programmes to put knowledge back into communities' hands
… costs mean local-level trainings are often only run once or twice. Community paralegals – people who know the law, but who are not … of land rights and their capacity to monitor local natural resource investments.  But even paralegal programmes struggle to keep … alone However, contentious campaigns against 'land grabbing' have led governments to sideline some NGOs and civil society organisations. …
Insight, 14 October 2014
Mr Yi, the manager of the processing facility, instructs some of the Mozambican workforce of Mr Forest Ltd (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
A Chinese passion: adding value to Mozambique's timber exports
… Chinese forest investment is also a key concern for the IIED-led China-Africa Forest Governance Project (CAFGoP) which is what … Natural resource management …
Insight, 10 April 2017
The new Guardians of Diversity film documents a gathering of indigenous farmers from mountain communities around the world to exchange knowledge and ideas
Film documents visit to "Guardians of Diversity" in the Potato Park
… Potato Park's collective governance system and methods. The park's management is based on Quechua customary values and laws, founded on … to enhance food security in the face of climate change. It has led to the establishment of a Seed Park in China based on the Potato … Natural resource management …
News, 10 November 2014
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Ecosystem-based adaptation: a handbook for EbA in mountain, dryland and coastal ecosystems
… handbook provides practical guidance for planning and implementing community-led ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in three vulnerable ecosystems: … Natural resource management …
Publication, 01 September 2018