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Shahajat Ali shows a newspaper article describing the incentive-based hilsa conservation programme under the Department of Fisheries (Photo: BCAS)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Bangladesh
Project, 12 June 2018
Workshop participants touring the Stone Village in China (Photo: Irene Song)
Mountain peoples call for support to protect traditional knowledge
News, 04 July 2016
Two women wearing traditional gowns stand in a maize field
EbA Evidence and Policy: China
Project, 13 June 2018
Smoked fish is a delicacy in Cameroon (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Protecting Cameroon's forests: a fishy business?
… be reinvested in revolving loan funds. These funds can be loaned to group members to pay for the new stoves and buy in bigger fish stocks – …  ( [email protected] ) is principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group. … Natural resource management …
Insight, 28 July 2017
View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory
Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development
… racial discrimination. They face growing dispossession of land and natural resources, their cultures are being eroded by modernisation, and … in the four communities. They followed up the interviews with focus group discussions in local villages. The researchers also carried out … Natural resource management …
Project, 29 April 2019
Living in close proximity to wildlife is not a neutral-impact relationship (Photo: Creative Commons, via Pixaby)
Wild life, wild lives: enough talking already
… awareness as to the beauty, productivity, and often fragility of the natural world, the inconvenient truth is that wildlife can also be … Dilys Roe ([email protected]) is principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group . … Natural resource management …
Insight, 27 November 2017
People paddle in dugout canoes past a forest in Cameroon.
African land solutions: making the resource blessing a reality
… Speakers and delegates agreed that “ Harnessing and governing natural resources for Africa’s development ” (the forum’s official title) … to undermine biodiversity objectives. He calculated that the forest resources in the protected areas to be lost to the oil palm concession …
Insight, 01 November 2012
A woman holds a poster with instructions. Another one holds a loudpseaker and points at a poster.
Building resilience and greening the COVID-19 recovery in least developed countries
Project, 15 September 2021
Participants at the meeting establish how their NGO works with communities in DRC (Photo: Alessandra Guiliani/IIED)
Poverty and conservation in DRC – what role for a network?
… and sustainable development in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, the natural home to the endangered Eastern Lowland Gorilla. It is difficult … Congo (DRC). DRC is a vast country with an enormous wealth of natural resources. Its forests contain abundant biodiversity, including many … whether setting up a national DRC Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) could help address some of these challenges. PCLG is an …
Insight, 24 August 2014
Chinese timber business in Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
China-Africa trade and investment: benefiting Africa's rural informal economy?
… discussions need to recognise informality is the daily reality of natural resource extraction and production in rural Africa. Talking … ) is a researcher in IIED's China team in the Natural Resources Group . Resources: Read this backgrounder for more … Natural resource management …
Insight, 31 March 2015