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A woman hands protective equipment to another woman.
Engaging pastoralist communities through citizen movements to amplify their voice
Article, 11 December 2020
Aerial view of destroyed housing and infrastructure.
Resilient prosperity in SIDS: forging a new finance compact
Insight, 29 August 2023
Smallholder forest-farm in Myanmar
Fairer by Far: Multi-functional mosaics for public goods
… Read More: Macqueen, D.J. and Rolington, L. 2013. Prioritising scarce resources for facilitated support of small forest and on-farm tree … Natural resource management …
Insight, 23 August 2013
Manantali dam in Mali (Photo: OMVS/SOGEM via Google license)
Dams in Africa: Combining national and local development
… local and national development and not putting the interests of one group against another. Making dams that deliver development for everyone … Skinner ([email protected]) is a principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group and leads the West Africa programme of the Global Water … Natural resource management …
Insight, 09 December 2014
Cover for G01907.pdf
A participatory GIS for community forestry user groups in Nepal Putting people before the technology
… either causing alarm or being seen as applications, including natural resource management and planning providing a potentially … real-life context. It is relationships for social, economic and natural resource issues, which mainly concerned ... …
Publication, 01 October 2000
Cover for 6110IIED.pdf
Multi-Level Participatory Planning for Water Resources Development in Sri Lanka
… Participatory approaches have been shown to be effective for natural resource development planning. In most of these cases, however, … is needed. Supra-community level planning is necessary for water resources development. As water flows from place to place, the actions … water availability for local communities downstream. Thus water resources development planning should be undertaken by multi-community …
Publication, 01 January 1996
A mango tree frames views of a forest in Mozambique in the distance.
China in Africa’s forests
Insight, 20 March 2013
Leaders of the Southern Aberdare Conservation Network (SACN) discussing support from the Forest and Farm Facility (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Taking the brakes off forest farm development in Kenya
… onus to deliver falls to people growing trees on-farm or restoring natural forests through community forest associations. The Kenya Forest … Meru Farm Forestry Association and the Community Food and Environment Group. With support from the Swedish international Development Agency … ) is a principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group , working on forest use and policies. …
Insight, 11 November 2014
Members of Namibia's Marinefluss Conservancy hope their remote community will benefit from joint ventures with tourist enterprises (Photo: Steve Felton, WWF via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD
… for example, has only recently – via its Rural Communities Working Group – taken steps to get communities involved in decision making so … are active (and there is an indigenous co-chair) in a working group on traditional knowledge . But more broadly, the CBD secretariat … Natural resource management …
Insight, 20 November 2018
A church under construction sits on a verdant green field with dark grey storm clouds behind.
Rio+20: Key recommendations from IIED conference
… Rather, it lifts people out of poverty through better use of the natural resources and associated local knowledge that are the main assets of the … change then we can’t have sustainable development.” Steve Bass, Group Head, Sustainable Markets Group, IIED: “Markets are a social … Natural resource management …
News, 20 June 2012