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Aerial view of hundreds of men and women tin mining
Lancement d’un catalogue de lois sur le développement communautaire dans le secteur minier
… Natural resource management …
News, 10 May 2021
Local logging bosses ('patrons') attend a training session on business organisation and forest management in the remote miombo forest near Caia in Central Mozambique (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Mozambique's forest theatre – how will the play end?
… the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and IIED, and backed by yet another group of donors (in this case Sweden, Finland, Germany, USA and the … ) is principal researcher in IIED's forest team within the Natural Resources Group . … Natural resource management …
Insight, 04 March 2015
Clearing forest for a palm oil plantation in Borneo (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Commodity cycles, economic treaties and pressures on land rights
… projects in Bolivia and Peru . Land rights problems in large-scale natural resource investments are often due to shortcomings of national … researcher (law and sustainable development) in IIED's  Natural Resources Group .  This blog was originally posted on RightingFinance .  Resources … Natural resource management …
Insight, 25 May 2016
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
… knowledge exchanges on sustainable management and use of soil resources.  Find out more about the  International Year of Soils . The … gathered evidence and shaped policy, particularly around pastoralism, natural resource management, soil fertility and land tenure. Of … 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
An elderly woman bends over while planting rice
Q&A: Unleashing the potential of forest farmers to address climate change and biodiversity loss
Article, 03 June 2021
Cover for G00178.pdf
Land in Africa Conference November 8 - 9, 2004, Church House Report Back from Working Group 5
… November 8 ­ 9, 2004, Church House Report Back from Working Group 5 The group spent its time exploring some of the challenges to securing collective rights to land and natural resources in Africa. 1. What are the commons? Difficult to come to … November 8 - 9, 2004, Church House Report Back from Working Group 5 …
Publication, 01 November 2004
Boats on the sea shore
Fish Night 8: Keeping up momentum for artisanal fisheries and aquaculture
… a not-for-profit organisation working in areas of environment and natural resources governance in Tanzania. She holds several leadership positions … International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) Working Group on Fisheries. Jeremy Percy  has been crew, skipper and owner of a …
Event, 28 March 2023
Man and woman cut a tree into planks.
United in a call for higher ambition on the global biodiversity agenda
… ride rough-shod over local people’s rights to own and manage their resources are not acceptable, and we share concerns with human rights …
Insight, 18 September 2020
Cover for 7820IIED.pdf
Source Book on Community-Based Conservation in South Asia: People, policies and publications
… of sites to understand and document community based conservation of natural resources, and in particular, of biodiversity in South Asia.~The South Asian review was coordinated by a group of individuals associated with the environmental action group … Natural resource management …
Publication, 01 January 2000
Mr Yi, the manager of the processing facility, instructs some of the Mozambican workforce of Mr Forest Ltd (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
A Chinese passion: adding value to Mozambique's timber exports
… ( [email protected] ) is principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group . … Natural resource management …
Insight, 10 April 2017