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Forested hills in Nepal, with a house in the foreground and forested hills, and then clouds behind.
Report calls for REDD+ to Invest in Forest Communities
News, 16 May 2012
A data collector speaks to a householder.
Helping Indigenous communities secure land rights in Nepal
Article, 18 December 2020
Cover for 14568IIED.pdf
The evolution of Casa Pueblo, Puerto Rico: From mining opposition to community revolution
… Casa Pueblo began as a grassroots’ citizens group formed to oppose the Puerto Rican government’s plan to allow … Natural resource management …
Publication, 01 August 2008
An irrigation pond.
CBA14: From local solutions to global action
… conference online allowed us to bring together a wider, more diverse group. The programme structure was built around networking: we hosted …
Event, 20 September 2020
Cover for G03403.pdf
The Bushbuckridge BCP: traditional health practitioners organise for ABS in South Africa (PLA 65)
… and government – and calls for the community’s rights over its land, resources and knowledge to be respected. With support from Natural Justice, the process was initiated by a small group of healers, which discussed concerns about the illegal harvesting …
Publication, 01 June 2012
Downtown Dar es Salaam: the largest city in Tanzania is on track to have a population over 50 million (Photo: Babak Fakhamzadeh, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The shifting power of cities
… – such as efforts to achieve development goals, less intense use of natural resources and cutting down on fossil fuels.  The rise of the low-income … forward more than 40 years. This would bring enormous benefits to natural ecosystems and future populations. Policy advisors wanting to …
Insight, 05 October 2016
Large-scale international investments in Cameroon have highlighted the importance of protecting the land rights of rural people (Photo: World Agroforestry Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Legal activism key to securing land rights in new investment phase
… In the shade of a local school's corrugated iron roof, a group of men and women debated what to do. Located not far from the town … Natural resource management …
Insight, 28 March 2018
Women cross a river
Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight
… living in and around forests, and those who depend on forest resources for their livelihoods, have the right rights and incentives.  … of large corporate sustainability. But the loss of biodiverse natural forests and land tenure issues related to IPLCs continues.   The …
Insight, 14 July 2020
Farmers and administrators discuss land issues
Securing land rights in West Africa
… ground. This is because for centuries people have accessed land and resources through complex social relations governed by local … negotiated and formalised collective agreements on the use of shared natural resources (referred to as 'local conventions'). What did IIED do? This …
Project, 09 October 2014
An image of a man faking injury being treated by a Bangladesh firefighter as part of a training exercise on collaborative search and rescue operations, helping the city to respond more effectively to disasters (Photo: Oregon National Guard, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Making the SDG agenda work for LDCs
… The Least Developed Countries (LDC) Independent Expert Group (IEG) , IIED and the ESRC's STEPS Centre will host a dialogue on … redressing the imbalance of power. This links closely with access to natural resources such as land, water and forests – but who owns these …
Article, 25 May 2016