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High-tech trawlers in the Faroe Islands. Ninety-five per cent of this tiny nation's exports is made up of fish (Photo: antonalfred, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Turning the tide: creating incentives for sustainable oceans
… Goal 14 – to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. In New York, representatives from … ) is a researcher in IIED's  Climate Change research group . … Natural resource management …
Insight, 17 January 2017
We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
… tension between making cities resilient while ensuring that they use resources efficiently . With their concentrations of people, … amount of resources, consuming up to 70-75 per cent of the world's natural resources. A report by IIED and UN Environment, ' Resilience and … Norton and Clare Shakya, who heads IIED's Climate Change research group, delivered a strong call for more action on climate change. To …
Article, 22 December 2017
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Engaging citizens for socially just climate action
… is that marginalised individuals and groups engage with unequal resources, capacities and social positions. These social inequalities … and other means.  This research is supported by the  World Bank Group  and the  Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery . In …
Project, 15 October 2020
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Réformer le foncier au Cameroun : des pistes pour l’action
… Natural resource management …
Publication, 15 September 2020
A tour group from ecotourism business Adventures in the Last Corridor explore possible caving tour options (Photo: Cathy Smith)
Business incubation motivates fire management
… local people are making good money from sustainable use of those resources – protecting what they depend on. Training forest communities … generations of the Medina Bank Mayan community by conserving its natural resources and environment through eco tours". The start-up plan … for women – but growing demand for good quality local food. A women's group plan to develop a business called 'Xibe'. Xibe aims to provide …
Insight, 06 March 2017
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… Species are being lost at about a thousand times the natural rate of extinction. This is faster than at any other period in … commercial development pressures, lack of secure rights to land and resources, migration and lack of cultural education. As a result, many … recognise and protect indigenous peoples’ rights to territories, natural resources, traditional knowledge and self-determination. And …
Insight, 18 February 2020
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Changing landscapes in Mozambique: why pro-poor land policy matters
… cultural costs to poor communities caused by the loss of access to natural resources. …
Publication, 01 January 2017
A small mining operation near Garies in the Western Cape, South Africa (Photo: jbdodane, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Stuck between a deposit and a hard place
… Exploration companies, by definition, seek to identify new mineral resources. In the context of resource scarcity, these are increasingly … ) is a senior researcher with IIED's Sustainable Markets Group . … Natural resource management …
Insight, 26 February 2015
Screengrab of a map of indigenous peoples’ territories in the Peruvian Amazon (Image: IBC Peru)
Creating a global 'land rights family': from knowledge to action
… event format. Digna Irafay and Masalu Luhula, of the Tanzania Natural Resources Forum (TNRF), plan to pilot IBC's life-planning method in two … is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group . The five organisations involved in the Community Land Initiative …
Insight, 14 March 2018
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Assessing progress – putting IIED’s gender research ambitions into practice
… to this vision. At the start of this year, I was part of a working group that built on that review by assessing in more depth to what … of funding work on gender. In addition, GECN is developing tools and resources to help staff think about gender during proposal development, … this commitment is lived out at the top – by senior management, group directors and team leaders. We also need to see IIED’s research …
Insight, 23 April 2021