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Bolivian family farming organisations show a poster about their award-winning coffee business development activity at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Modern food systems to emerge in new decade of family farming
… farmers, key to managing much of the world’s remaining biodiverse natural forests. Their huge numbers also give them unique power to … in certification) Climate action and resilience through sustainable natural resource management Farmer-led innovations in business …
Insight, 04 April 2019
Strengthening pastoral civil society in Senegal
… Senegal offered real opportunities for local people to have a say in natural resource management and planning, and how their areas should be … national policy making processes with respect to land and other resources. …
Project, 04 September 2008
A woman sells palm oil in a market in west Africa.
Four actions to reduce the ‘forest footprint’ of commodities
… including voluntary moratoria on sourcing products from, for example, natural forests, and consumer-directed campaigns, such as when … Natural resource management …
Insight, 18 March 2013
A fish market in Vĩnh Trường, Vietnam. More than 300 million people are directly or indirectly employed by the fisheries sector, and must be addressed by the oceans SDG (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
A sustainable ocean by 2030
Insight, 14 September 2015
A coastal river system seen from above
Developing a vision for The Gambia’s future
Insight, 20 April 2020
The influx of migrants and refugees onto the island of Lesbos was met with an influx of responders from various sectors who often did not effectively collaborate early on in the response (Tyler Jump/International Rescue Committee)
Finding space for dialogue when urban crises hit
News, 26 October 2016
Patently obvious: intellectual property rights could support small producers
… has a single owner. But ownership of a trademark may be shared by a group of producers, each of whom have the right to use the mark – these … they do not automatically encourage the sustainable management of natural resources. Other factors, such as land rights, play an important role in …
Insight, 14 November 2011
Women farmers in Dodel, in Northern Senegal, take a break by the water pump (Photo: Philippine Sutz/IIED)
Q&A: Getting women's land rights recognised
Article, 19 March 2018
Uganda's forest grabbers are back - but the people are ready
… at the peak of an NGO-led campaign to stop a company owned by Mehta Group from converting 7,100 hectares of Mabira national forest reserve … for fairer, greener governance.   James Mayers is the head of IIED's Natural Resources Group More information see our pages on the Forest Governance …
Insight, 17 August 2011
Drying beans
Community protocols can bring real benefits to communities and combat biodiversity loss
… They set out a community’s rights and responsibilities relating to natural resources, to help communities defend these rights and negotiate with … resource rights. For example, the Bushbuckbridge healers are a group of 80 healers in South Africa who developed a protocol which …
Insight, 15 March 2012