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Seed industry ignores farmers' rights to adapt to climate change
News, 07 September 2009
Non-literate farmer filmmakers help save biodiversity
… The project identified ways to sustain local crop and livestock diversity to increase people’s livelihoods options and ability to adapt … on agricultural biodiversity that the Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity approved in 1996. "In many parts of India and the …
News, 14 May 2008
A host of people carrying placards and banners, with a prominent banner that says: "Danger: delay kills you".
From Paris to pandemic: charting the changing landscape for sustainable development
… Another key moment is due in December: the long-delayed COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity . Agreement of a clear and ambitious framework for protecting …
Insight, 01 September 2022
A women's group in Kenya scores social impacts of protected areas using a participatory rural appraisal method (Photo: Phil Franks/IIED)
Equity, inclusion, conservation and the SDGs
… This work responds to the Aichi targets, established under the Convention on Biological Diversity , which include the "equitable management" of protected areas …
Insight, 29 March 2016
The morning fish auction at Mumbai's Ferry Wharf. Thousands of boats fish along the coast, putting acute pressure on fish stocks (Photo: lecercle, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Shaking the money pot to protect nature
… According to Markus Lehmann, from the Convention on Biological Diversity, implementing the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets by 2020 – such …
Insight, 25 July 2017
Four elephants roam the plain on the Maasai Mara, Kenya
Covering elephant tracks: can insurance compensate farmers for wildlife damage?
… a global alliance to highlight solutions to HWC in the run up to the Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties at the end of 2020. …
Insight, 27 March 2019
Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity
… active in the spaces that are crucial for conserving Andean potato diversity – such as local seed fairs where seeds are shared and … processes that tend to happen in urban areas. What does the new 2020 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) framework , which will see the international …
Article, 18 October 2018
Dr Dilys Roe (IIED) and Dr Rosie Cooney (IUCN SULI) with South African Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Bomo Edna Molewa (Photo: Kim Ludbrook/EPA Photos)
Innovative approaches to tackling wildlife crime on the frontlines
… CITES , the United Nations Development programme (UNDP) and the Convention on Biological Diversity . Dr Rosie Cooney, chair of the  IUCN CEESP/SSC Sustainable …
News, 27 February 2015
Some ecological settings, such as drylands, which are home to a high proportion of the world’s poor, are poorly studied and have become the neglected 'ugly duckling' of biodiversity research (Photo: Marie Monimart)
What we know about how biodiversity and poverty are linked: The good, the bad and the ugly
… For example, Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity agreed in 2001 "to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of …
Insight, 31 March 2014
Protect and survive: customary safeguards, traditional knowledge
… on the international access and benefit-sharing regime of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This project has also helped Panama’s indigenous …
Article, 09 November 2009