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CITES and CBNRM: Proceedings of an international symposium on “The relevance of CBNRM to the conservation and sustainable use of CITES-listed species in exporting countries”
… to be its most serious shortcoming. A symposium on community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) for the conservation of CITES-listed …
Publication, 01 December 2011
Development and Climate Days Film Competition 2011
… by lifemosiac.net Climate change can lead to a scarcity of natural resources and conflict. This film explores an equitable water irrigation … livestock mortality rates have increased. They’ve formed a savings group to set up small businesses to diversify their income. …
Article, 22 August 2011
Angola aims to achieve its mitigation goals through the promotion of renewable energy, stabilisation of agricultural emissions, carbon sequestration from the forestry sector and other activities (Photo: jbdodane, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate finance is vital to secure a future worth having
Insight, 09 December 2015
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 16 Tips for trainers: participation poker'
… of community participation players who declared OUT turn up their in natural resource management (NRM); · card and explain her/his decision. to enable you to understand the simplicity · The group debates the decision. If the of some assumptions behind participation in NRM; and, group accepts the player's decision about · the card being an OUT card - …
Publication, 01 January 1998
Miombo woodlands in Southeast Tanzania. But can remote sensing technologies accurately detect the woodlands (Photo: Samuel Bowers)
How much can the eyes in the sky really tell us about deforestation?
… Nations (FAO), the continent lost around 87 million hectares of natural forests between 1990 and 2015, driven mainly by small-scale … Jones ([email protected]) is a researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group ; Samuel Bowers ([email protected]) is a research scientist at …
Insight, 11 January 2017
A tree leans over a small stream in a forest in Mozambique.
16 tools to help small businesses sustain forests, limit climate change and cut poverty
News, 01 May 2012
A market takes place in the village of Tiogo next to the Tiogo Forest in Burkina Faso. With much of the food and hand crafts on sale from the forest, the community is dependent on the conservation of the forest to maintain their livelihoods (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Towards a fairer future for conservation
… Phil Franks ([email protected]) is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group . This blog was originally posted by Mongabay . …
Insight, 05 September 2016
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Association ANDES: Conserving indigenous biocultural heritage
… an indigenous NGO that seeks to defend indigenous rights to genetic resources, traditional knowledge and landscape character in Peru. It was …
Publication, 01 August 2008
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Biodiversity Planning: Why and how should local opinions matter?
… Many planning processes for land management or natural resource management now include specific provisions for …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Costa Rica's Peñas Blancas Reservoir is the focus of work involving payments for ecosystem services (Photo: Dr Ina Porras)
Payments for ecosystem services: We can't leave people out of the equation
… ecosystem services. These schemes can alleviate poverty and conserve natural resources but only if designed properly and with the needs and … Namaalwa and Gorettie Nabanoga tackled this question by using a group-based choice experiment to understand the preferences of local …
Insight, 28 March 2014