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Local villagers receive wildlife training in the Mbarang'andu Wildlife Management Area in Tanzania, which incorporates seven villages. (Photo: WWF/USAID Biodiversity & Forestry, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Communities, livelihoods and sustainable wildlife management
… elephants and other wildlife Exploring the drivers of wild meat as a food choice in Cameroon and helping  to design better “alternative … biodiversity. In November 2018, IIED principal researcher told the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  how we need to maximise …
Article, 14 November 2018
The CBD COP13 logo. IIED and partners will be at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December
IIED at the biodiversity COP in Cancun
… 2011-20 strategic plan and the Aichi goals , with an emphasis on agriculture, forestry, fisheries and tourism sectors. Governing bodies … role of women in conserving and enhancing agrobiodiversity for food security in the face of climate change, and explore novel … in local seed systems, and the impacts of biocultural innovations on food security and adaptation. Two women farmers from China presented the …
Event, 04 December 2016
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Climate change and forest resilience
… people in developing countries depend on trees on farm to generate food or cash. …
Publication, 01 October 2006
Achala C Abeysinghe (second left) recently spoke on a panel discussion at COP23 on Women Leading the World's Climate Agenda (Photo: Anne Schulthess/IIED)
COP23 outcomes call for faster action and higher ambition to keep Paris on track
… the heart of the international climate policy process. Progress on agriculture sows seeds of promise After years of fraught negotiations on this issue, the COP23 decision on agriculture (PDF)  requests the subsidiary bodies of the UNFCCC to … of agriculture to climate change and approaches to tackle food security. Breaking the deadlock on issues connecting agriculture …
Insight, 21 November 2017
Participatory community mapping and community land protection can yield tangible results for poor and vulnerable populations (Photo: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)
Next steps to strengthen global land governance
… of land and land tenure (PDF)  were agreed at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome. This was a response to growing … grabbing" driven by the global rush for investment in the wake of the food, fuel and financial crises in the first decade of this century. …
Insight, 15 May 2016
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RRA methodologies workshop in Thailand: a new initiative
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 January 1988
REDD+ in Mozambique: new opportunity for land grabbers?
… to be abundant in Africa. A scramble for its land, following the food and fuel crisis three years ago, is on. European and North American … have accumulated experience that is very welcome” said Mozambique’s agriculture minister, José Pacheco in this article . “We want to repeat … for growing crops such as soy, which is not even essential to meeting food security needs in Mozambique! I sincerely expected that the …
Insight, 15 September 2011
Three people stand on a stage holding a large piece of paper between them
D&C Days 2019: Illumination amid ‘a sea of warnings’
… Action Summit , it incorporated the five resilience-centred themes of food and agriculture; early warning, early action; finance; working with nature; …
News, 10 December 2019
We have in the past few years made progress on the theories and understanding of social learning approaches. But more research and real-life case studies are needed (Photo: Z Sewunet (ILRI)
Paving the way for social learning in the climate change context
… Our initiative seeks to understand what we, both Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and others, can learn from various social learning … help provide better ways of adapting to climate change and ensuring food security. What is Climate Change and Social Learning? Social …
Insight, 24 March 2014
If a tree falls - a short film from the Mozambican forests
… represent the lifeblood of many Mozambicans - a source of medicine, food and fuel and a haven of biodiversity and wildlife. But surrounded … floods) and widespread poverty, forests are increasingly converted to agriculture or used – often unsustainably – to generate income from the …
Article, 11 March 2011