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Central Malawi: Belia Sikelo farms groundnuts using 'conservation agriculture', a set of practices including no-till farming, designed improve soil structure and help resist erosion. (Photo: T. Samson/CIMMYT)
2015: the International Year of Soils
… land use and management practices, pollution, overgrazing and climate change. The current rate of degradation threatens the ability to meet … director Camilla Toulmin is co-chair of the Montpellier Panel , a group of African and European scientists who work to enable better …
Article, 09 April 2015
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PLA66: Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods
… generated multiple benefits, including ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change. • How a modified form of scoring, used within a livelihoods … with fishing communities in Uganda. • How a former bonded-labour group in Nepal have campaigned to uphold their rights of access, use and …
Publication, 01 September 2013
This week in Myanmar, pictured, the Forest Farm Facility is funding a national exchange between forest and farm producer groups and many other producer groups (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter
… focus on just one aim, such as agricultural land use, or mitigating climate change, or producing timber or water etc, but in achieving all these … Duncan Macqueen is principal researcher in IIED's natural resources group ( [email protected] ). …
Insight, 24 March 2014
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
… systems to access their lands face numerous threats, ranging from climate change to large-scale agricultural investments.  An IIED webinar … and rural communities across the world face many threats including climate change, food and water insecurity, natural resource conflicts, …
Insight, 01 December 2016
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Road to recovery: mapping a sustainable economy
… Heads of Government meeting in Trinidad on the imperatives of climate change in the short term, and of economic resilience in the longer term. … real wellbeing. Two aspects of a resilient economy – tackling climate change and installing low-carbon energy and infrastructure – are …
Publication, 01 November 2009
Informal settlements in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta. The World Bank estimates that some 29 million Indonesians live in urban areas with poor access to basic services (Photo: Axel Drainville, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Urban risks: where are the top five biggest blind spots?
… needed upgrading programmes and effective disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Little local health data We get some sense of the … differences in the scale of the risk by district and by income group. It is likely that infant, child and maternal deaths represent a …
Insight, 18 April 2017
First international gathering of forest producer organisations underway
… or other support platforms and a voice in policy development. "As a group, smallholders and community and Indigenous Peoples forest … restoration," says Chris Buss, Deputy Director of IUCN’s Forest and Climate Change Programme. "It is crucial therefore to ensure forest producer …
News, 25 November 2013
Women cross a river
Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight
… to IPLCs continues.   The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Paris climate agreement, and New York Declaration on Forests suggest change is needed for a cleaner, fairer future. The calls to ‘build back … through innovative approaches that can deliver the transformative change necessary to protect both forests and people. It is time to put …
Insight, 14 July 2020
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Workshop programme: What does it take to achieve pro-poor REDD+?
… the 18th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP18). This programme gives details of the workshop, which will …
Publication, 01 November 2012
Fishing boats return to a beach on the Bay of Bengal.
New Commission for oceans in crisis
… half the oxygen we breathe, recycle nutrients and regulate our climate — services we too often fail to value . They cover more than two … and environmental issues, including deep sea fishing and the climate change implications of ocean acidification, have emerged since then, … Commission is a collaboration between the U.S.-based Pew Environment Group , Somerville College (part the University of Oxford, UK), the …
Insight, 14 February 2013