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David Arach presented Namati's approach to community land protection, focusing on the key stage of community by-laws drafting, in the IIED webinar (Image: David Arach)
Using community by‑laws to protect indigenous and rural land rights
… across the world face many threats including climate change, food and water insecurity, natural resource conflicts, population growth …
Insight, 01 December 2016
Men and women fish off the island of Padma Pakur. Image by Espen Rasmussen/PANOS
Compensation for conservation of Bangladesh’s national fish
… fish species and help to reduce poverty by maintaining a source of food and jobs for the poor," says Dr Mohammed. "To do this we will work …
News, 28 May 2013
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Population Growth and Environmental Recovery: Policy lessons from Kenya
… productivity in Africa, that increased commercial production harms food supplies, that investment in semi-arid areas does not pay as well …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Small and medium forest enterprises and associations
… of the international agenda (for example through events at the Food and Agriculture Organisation, United Nations Forest Forum and International …
Project, 11 June 2008
Plan Vivo partners at a conference in Sweden commit to actively engage in the implementation and accountability of the SDGs (Photo: Plan Vivo Foundation)
The SDGs speak and we like what we hear
Insight, 15 October 2015
Q: When is a forest not a forest? A: When no-one knows
… understand a “forest” to be just a place with some trees. As the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization defines things in its 2010 Global Forest …
Insight, 02 November 2011
'Land grabbing' in the shadow of the law in Africa
… rights law, exercising fundamental human rights like the right to food or the right to property. This is often impossible in practice, as … held a forum on this topic in Nairobi . And the UN Committee on World Food Security, meeting in Rome next week, is discussing the adoption of … of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security. It's important for decision-makers to keep their minds …
Insight, 13 October 2011
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The Danish consensus conference model in Switzerland and France: on the importance of framing the issue (PLA 40)
… organised a 'Conference de Citoyens' on 'Genetic modification in agriculture and food'. Despite differences in these two countries' democratic …
Publication, 01 February 2001
Temegnush Dhabi owns a two-hectare farm in central Ethiopia, growing chick peas. "I’m no longer seen as a poor widow but a successful farmer" (Photo: The Gates Foundation via Flickr)
Women's land rights and Africa's development conundrum – which way forward?
… It's bad for the economy : Given the importance of agriculture to many African economies, limiting women's access to land … Across the continent 65% of the active labour force is engaged in agriculture, yet food imports are rising. It is increasingly recognised that more …
Insight, 12 December 2014
En route to San José, Costa Rica. Credit: cicsc1970
Nature has values, and markets can be governed
… Water, clean air and insect-pollinated food crops are all examples of nature's endowments to humankind, and … farmers who maintain hedgerows and buffer strips, or practise organic agriculture. In Kenya, negotiations underway for a scheme to reward …
Insight, 10 August 2012