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Group meeting on climate change on boat run by Shidhulai. Natore, Bangladesh. Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS
Empowering communities to adapt to climate change
Article, 17 December 2012
Indigenous mountain farmers examine a map of the Stone Village water management system, showing the water channels (Photo: Irene Song)
Mountain communities call for stronger action to counter climate change
… and Peru called for support to strengthen traditional natural resource management systems, especially water management.  The Stone … to hear." The declaration calls on governments and the international community to recognise the critical role of diverse local land races in … adaptation, and support participatory plant breeding and community-led landscape management, recognising the spirituality that guides it. …
News, 23 June 2016
A woman farmer bends over in a field of crops in front of forest in the background.
Flourishing forests and prosperous people – together
… incubation toolkits such as ‘ ForBInc ’. IIED has also produced risk management toolkits such as ‘ Securing forest business ’ and guidance on … in forestry’, highlighting innovations that spread sustainable community forestry in ‘ Unseen foresters ’, how to engage ‘ Chinese … towards prosperity ' and ‘ Co-producing knowledge: a demand-led, prosperity-focused, research agenda with forest and farm producer …
Article, 04 January 2022
A multi-tiered agroforestry landscape.
How smallholder farmers are scaling up local ecosystem-based climate adaptation solutions
… ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) solutions.  But, as a 2023 IIED-led survey exposed, they are having to invest a significant amount of … markets and access to finance as the biggest challenges to scaling up community-led EbA activities in forest and farm landscapes. Supported by the …
Insight, 11 April 2024
Aerial view of housing with metal roofs, palm trees and a river
Environment & Urbanization Better Cities Day
… of recent or future special issues of E&U: Disruptive resilience: led by Dr. Aditya Bahadur, this session focused on the intersection of … arrangements, and financial mechanisms  Urban climate justice: co-led by Dr. Anna Walnycki and Dr. Tucker Landesman, this session … urban planner and architect at the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centre (SPARC) – Slum Dwellers International Anna Walnycki is …
Event, 16 March 2023
Person walks trough a park under heavy rain.
Struggling, silenced and (barely) surviving the perfect typhoon
… taken steps to futureproof the region, with the ASEAN socio-cultural community vision 2025 setting priority areas in conservation of sustainable management of biodiversity and natural resources, promoting … the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) has led efforts to achieving a regional framework for the fulfilment of …
Insight, 04 October 2023
Woman bends over a seedbed.
IIED at the 2022 Nature-based Solutions Conference
… and the social science of restoration networks. We will hear from community leaders from different regions, best-practice case studies, … Dismas Partalala Meitaya , representative of the Ujamaa Community Resource Team , Tanzania  Diego Pacheco , head of the Bolivian … and green recovery: building back better from COVID-19 Blogs Locally-led nature-based solutions can deliver global leaders’ pledge Lessons …
Event, 05 July 2022
Workshop participants touring the Stone Village in China (Photo: Irene Song)
Mountain peoples call for support to protect traditional knowledge
… resources, and setting out eight actions for the international community.   Mountain ecosystems are hotspots of biological and cultural … them. It calls for support for strengthening traditional natural resource management systems, especially in relation to water management. … courses and sharing tools for climate adaptation, including community-led landscape management and traditional water management systems. Stone …
News, 04 July 2016
Living in close proximity to wildlife is not a neutral-impact relationship (Photo: Creative Commons, via Pixaby)
Wild life, wild lives: enough talking already
… International decision-making about wildlife conservation and management rests in the hands of governments, through international … best practice in involving local communities in wildlife management. The resulting analysis, commissioned by UN Environment and … that emphasise fences and fines, guns and boots. Effective state-led enforcement against poaching is essential but likely to be …
Insight, 27 November 2017
Recovering wildlife populations in Namibia are largely attributed to policies that give local people rights to benefit from wildlife on their land (Photo: Ronald Woan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
There’s justice in the battle for biodiversity 
… can create the crucial momentum for local development and wise resource use. The response to poverty and marginalisation must be … aid for local wildlife stewardship really works .  Locally-led action for global gains When aid and development budgets are carefully accounted for, supporting community efforts to tackle ecosystem degradation offers an extremely …
Insight, 28 June 2018