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sandbags holding back river water
CBA14: Same great conference, entirely new environment
Insight, 07 July 2020
New Potato Deal in Peru Signposts Global Drive to Open Up Food Genebanks to Indigenous Peoples
… and repatriate biological diversity to farming communities and the natural environment for local and global benefit. The initiative will be … park" in southern Peru where indigenous peoples can access genetic resources and have a greater say in their management.   Though excluded … and Sustainable Development (ANDES), a Cusco-based civil society group led by indigenous peoples, helped broker the ground-breaking …
News, 18 January 2005
Kenya: Community-based marine area holds some important lessons for policy makers
… power to local people causes greater empowerment and ownership over resources, leading to a greater likelihood of resources being conserved … coastal people’s rights to the land are strengthened. Kate Lee is the group administrator of the Sustainable Markets Group . Find out more about their work. … Natural resource management …
Insight, 14 November 2011
Game reveals complex links between poverty and threats to apes
… — was organised as part of IIED's Poverty and Conservation Learning Group initiative with support from the Arcus Foundation, the US Fish and … Natural resource management …
Insight, 13 January 2012
Ol Pejeta Conservancy in northern Kenya is home to four of the seven northern white rhino left in the world. The park is using SAPA as part of its community programme (Photo: Guy Lemal)
Piloting Social Assessment of Protected Areas: some initial reflections
… as well as the negative impacts (costs) such as reduced access to resources and crop damage by wildlife. SAPA is a relatively simple, … the assessment phase. Fieldwork at each site consisted of focus group discussions to identify the different types of social impacts of … Franks ( [email protected] ) is a senior researcher within IIED's Natural Resources Group . SAPA is funded by the UK Government’s Darwin …
Insight, 23 September 2014
Pre-emptive controlled burning in Belize is preventing severe uncontrolled wild fires during the driest months (Photo: Toledo Institute for Development and Environment)
Flaming parrots and palmetto palms
… dry-season fires and expanding populations are degrading these resources in an increasingly variable climate. The forest land itself … southern region of Toledo. It also issued an injunction prohibiting natural resource use concessions throughout Toledo. The government … researcher in the forest team within IIED's Natural Resources Group . …
Insight, 08 February 2016
Justice in the Forests: six online films and webinar from IIED
… world, it is an important question. The Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG) is a network of teams in ten countries in Africa and Asia … investing in locally controlled forestry. Join the head of IIED’s Natural Resources Group — James Mayers — and in-country FGLG team members on 4 …
News, 19 April 2011
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Organisational mechanisms that best serve the poor
… Natural resource management …
Publication, 01 January 2005
GWI influence - access and rights to irrigated land - planting rice - Selingue dam - Mali
Global Water Initiative: Mali
… transferring to regional authorities the responsibility and resources for managing rural and urban water services, several … of the Sourou sub-basin. It showed that the area held significant natural resources, including: a reservoir on the Burkina Faso side, … municipality, in the context of World Water Day.   We set up a focus group to consider the sustainability of water facilities in the Sourou …
Project, 16 February 2018
Miners pushing a cart out of a mine near the Bolivian town of Potosi. For centuries this area had the richest silver mines in South America. Today many of the mines are worked by local cooperatives, but conditions are still harsh (Photo Nyall & Maryanne, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Listen and learn: lessons from the small-scale mining sector
… ) is senior researcher in the Sustainable Markets Group . … Natural resource management …
Insight, 05 February 2015