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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
… occurs when local communities have access to and control over their resources,” says Gary Dunning, Executive Director of TFD. “These … Maginnis, Global Director of IUCN’s Nature Based Solutions and Rights Group. “It’s there that the actions of farmers, community organizations, … The major challenge is the issue of land tenure and the rights to natural resources. Who’s entitled to what? Resolving those issues is …
News, 16 May 2012
Cover for G02968.pdf
Information as power: making best use of India's Right to Information Law (PLA 53)
… the policies and institutions that govern access to and use of natural resources. Participatory Learning and Action (PLA, formerly PLA Notes) … editorial board. See: www.planotes.org Keywords: policy, natural resource management (NRM), community-based natural resource …
Publication, 01 December 2005
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
Ancestral miners rush to find gold and platinum ore at a mine wall opened by medium-scale mining (Photo: Ronald de Hommel)
Informality and formalisation in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector
… in partnership with the University of Ghent's Conflict Research Group and the Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao , highlights how … ) is a researcher with IIED's Sustainable Markets Group … Natural resource management …
Insight, 12 November 2014
Group of seated women looking in the same direction
‘Building back better’ means ‘building back fairer’ after COVID-19
Insight, 31 July 2020
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
Article, 25 May 2016
The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
… Speakers: Judi Wakhungu, cabinet secretary, Ministry of Environment, Natural resources and Regional Development authorities, Kenya (keynote); Prince … of Environment, Kenya; Dorsouma Al-Hamdou, African Development Bank Group; Ben Garside, IIED; Shepard Zvigadza, CSOs Climate Change Working …
Event, 06 November 2017
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
Peñas Blancas Reservoir in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica: Growing money on trees
… this decade. Based on economic theory, the idea is that ecosystem resources can be better protected if landowners receive a financial … – the crucial backbone of the system. And it gave it the financial resources to kick-start the process by allocating it with a percentage … official body to sign contracts. However, decisions are made by the group, about whether to sign contracts or not, and how to distribute the …
Insight, 26 June 2012
Elephant yams growing on a forested slope in Myanmar.
Myanmar: Could an unusual yam help the march of community forestry?
… to offer small grants to strengthen forest and farm producer group’s capacity for profitable business using different crops and in … Natural resource management …
Insight, 17 May 2013