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Park Action Plans: Stories of Change from a community enterprise programme around Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
… Natural resource management …
Publication, 02 December 2020
A mountain of tailings, or mining waste, at an open-pit copper mining complex southwest of the city of Arequipa in southern Peru (Photo: A Davey, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED webinar: civil society submissions in investor-state arbitration – do they work?
… A recent rise in natural resource investments, such as agribusiness and mining, has … countries are taking action to change the way that investments in natural resources are happening, working to protect the environment and the …
Event, 06 February 2018
Participants from 26 countries attended the Forest Connect workshop (Photo: Hop Thinh)
Locally controlled forestry enterprises could teach us all a thing or two
… a greater democratic interest in the sustainable management of local natural resources, meeting local demand for products and services, and the … ( [email protected] ) is a researcher with IIED's Natural Resources Group . … Natural resource management …
Insight, 04 February 2015
Two forest farmers from Ghana, including the head of a local community forest group, alongside some cocoa beans (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Integrating forests into the post-2015 development framework
… sustainability, which led to a high level of uncertainty about how natural resource and climate change issues would be incorporated into … experts from 12 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America. The group developed a modular approach to SDG implementation that involved … Natural resource management …
Project, 21 May 2014
Gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
Uganda: Can a gorilla park deliver more benefits to local people?
… means that communities living around the park are restricted in the natural resources they are able harvest in their local area and their … first major project of the Uganda Poverty and Conservation Learning Group , a local chapter of the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group, … Natural resource management …
Insight, 26 July 2013
Logging trucks in Ghana: legislation requires that to charge stumpage fees on harvested timber at levels that keep the timber industry under control (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Communities stumped as government fails to make loggers pay
… – with a select number of countries including Ghana. Ghana's Timber Resources Management Regulation (LI 1649 to be precise) defines these … in other countries which are part of the Forest Governance Learning Group facilitated by IIED, has developed and used a range of tactics … their dues. James Mayers ( [email protected] ) is head of IIED's Natural Resources Group . …
Insight, 19 March 2015
Fishing boats return to a beach on the Bay of Bengal.
New Commission for oceans in crisis
… (by far the biggest living space on Earth), and offer a wealth of resources. Yet they are increasingly exploited, and largely unregulated. … guidelines for businesses, the environment, and for managing marine natural resources. But many exploitation technologies and environmental … 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
Group of people sitting on chairs facing each other
Addressing illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Colombia
… with unheard and less-heard voices. We supported DAI’s integrated natural resource management research team to reach local groups and …
Project, 25 April 2023
People walking up a green hill.
Learning from adaptation financing that is working for LDCs and SIDS
… This approach has proven useful. Now, LDCs, SIDS and the Champions Group on Adaptation Finance are proposing to build on that review over … institutions for delivery.  In Rwanda, the Fund for Environment and Natural Resources (FONERWA) was set up under the national organic law no. …
Insight, 20 July 2023
Defining the agenda for Rio +20: my analysis
… text acknowledges that governments have sovereign rights over their natural resources but recognises that we live in an ever-more connected world. … groups with political influence are seeking to appropriate valuable natural resources – land, forests, water – domestically and globally. As … Natural resource management …
Insight, 12 January 2012