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Every voice counts: addressing inequality in research and development
… geographical location or income levels. Recognition and access to resources Let us take the case of Indigenous Peoples and local …
Insight, 16 March 2022
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Four ways local organisations can use AI to support locally led adaptation and build resilience
Insight, 25 May 2023
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Potentialités et Conflits dans les Zones Péri-urbaines: Le Cas de Mopti au Mali
… role of the new decentralised local government in managing land and natural resources. …
Publication, 01 January 2001
New Community Forest Instructions give communities rights to commercially sell timber and non-timber forest products, such as such as rattan and honey (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest rights create new livelihoods in Myanmar
… Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC). This is a hugely … In 2015, MONREC established a Community Forestry National Working Group and a Community Forest Unit, tasked with transferring 918,000 …
Insight, 05 December 2017
Aerial view of an arid landscape. A group of people walk.
IIED at 50: be prepared to engage with young activists
… by this crisis will culminate in many conflicts around land and other resources. There are very many other implications around the issue of … Flickr , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) A third very important challenge is the natural resource grab. Globally there is a lot of change happening. Africa being the last frontier where you have a natural reserve of land, in the future will have many implications in …
Article, 29 November 2021
People walking on agricultural land
Envisioning a better future for The Gambia
… population for the sustainable development and management of our natural resources, cities and habitats. This includes transport and other … both our domestic objectives and the Least Developed Country (LDC) Group 2050 Vision and offer – aimed to integrate adaptation, mitigation …
Insight, 19 July 2021
Community engagement in preventin pangolin poaching in Nepal (Photo: Ambika Prasad Khatiwada)
Wildlife crime and local communities
… closely with the IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi)  and other partners, we are determined to address that … an online learning platform  to bring case studies and other resources together in one place   Listening to community voices: the … gathering and supporting income generating activities. Related resources News and blogs Blog:  Turn up the volume: community voices on …
Article, 03 February 2015
The landscape of the Santurbán páramo.
Unpacking regulatory chill: the case of mining in the Santurbán páramo in Colombia
… Natural resource management …
Insight, 21 December 2020
An audience gathers to listen to a presentation as information on land is shared by Open Data Myanmar (Photo: Open Data Myanmar)
IIED webinar: using web platforms to promote transparency and strengthen land rights
Event, 06 July 2016
David Arach presented Namati's approach to community land protection, focusing on the key stage of community by-laws drafting, in the IIED webinar (Image: David Arach)
Using community by‑laws to protect indigenous and rural land rights
… many threats including climate change, food and water insecurity, natural resource conflicts, population growth and large-scale … Community by-laws regulate governance, use and management of land and natural resources and social and cultural rules. They seek to protect the rights …
Insight, 01 December 2016