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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
… the world are taking action to change the way that investments in natural resources are happening, and working to protect the environment and the rights of citizens. Unfortunately, information about natural resource investments and land deals and associated land …
Event, 06 July 2016
View of the Earth from the space
Four ways local organisations can use AI to support locally led adaptation and build resilience
… to better understand their rights and provide greater access to resources.   AI-driven natural language processing tools can democratise technical language and …
Insight, 25 May 2023
Workshop participants displayed and exchanged seeds from different parts of the world (Image: Yiching Song/Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy)
New film shows Chinese mountain communities protecting biocultural heritage
News, 14 March 2017
Cover for 13587IIED.pdf
Securing the future: Managing risk and building resilience within locally controlled forest businesses
… specific unpredictabilities in: accessing finance, competing for natural resources, securing fair treatment under law, managing a group business organisation, developing human capacity, and building a …
Publication, 01 March 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
Cover for 13577IIED.pdf
Arguing forests: the story of FGLG Indonesia
… partners that form the international Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG). By providing an in-depth and personal insight into its … and successes experienced by FGLG Indonesia as it has evolved from a group of young, concerned foresters through to its current status as a … Natural resource management …
Publication, 01 February 2015
A conservation agriculture demonstration at the Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust, Zambia. Conservation agriculture can increase productivity and improve soil structure (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture
… will focus on Zambia, Ghana and Ethiopia, while working with a wider group of universities in Africa to share lessons and build capacity. … It will build on the work of the IIED-led International Working Group on Food and Forests in Africa , and complement SITAM (Supporting … Natural resource management …
Project, 10 August 2017
Dialogue participants visited ASM operations (Photo: Mkhululi Nkosilamandla Ncube)
Can ASM lead the Africa Mining Vision?
… of what the Africa Mining Vision really is. During the debrief and group session after our field trip to Nsangano gold mine in Nyarungusu … – a transparent, equitable and optimal exploitation of mineral resources to underpin broad-based sustainable growth and socio-economic … Natural resource management …
Insight, 07 December 2017
Yanacocha Mine, in Cajamarca, Peru. The country's Supreme Court last year ruled in favour of a farmer that a US gold miner claimed was illegally occupying land it wanted to develop (Golda Fuentes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting community voices heard in investor-state arbitration
… arbitral claims against states relating to investments in natural resource-related projects. The investments giving rise to these … being disputed can affect communities' access to land and natural resources, their human rights, or damage the environment on which these … for a multilateral investment court , and the UNCITRAL Working Group on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform  needs to consider how …
Insight, 05 March 2018
Poultry farming is part of the sustainable agriculture system, along with crop production and fisheries, at Songhai Centre, in Porto Novo, Benin (Photo: Mark Surman via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
LDC experts to share ideas on building productive capacity
Insight, 25 July 2014