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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 11 A board game for financial management training
Publication, 01 January 1988
A huge selection of photos are displayed in a Peru supermarket (Photo: Teresa Stanton, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Nourishing diversity in our food systems
… diets. Seth Cook ([email protected]) is senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group . Cook will be talking about diversity from farm to fork and …
Insight, 10 October 2017
CBA12: Key messages
… we need to mobilise the private sector to secure the innovations and resources needed to achieve adaptation at scale. We need affordable, … (low cost). They also need to be reliable, maintain or build the natural capital on which they depend, and be productive and profitable … risks addressed Evaluators should understand climate interventions as resources that are designed to facilitate behavioural change …
Article, 11 June 2018
A women carries supplies through a flooded street in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, after thousands were displaced following floods in 2014. Studies have shown that, when they are socially or economically disadvantaged, more women die in hurricanes and floods (Photo: United Nations Photo, Creative Comms via Flickr)
Will climate change render the SDGs impossible?
Insight, 19 June 2015
Report urges forestry industry to tackle conflict with local people
… today (8 July) by The Forests Dialogue (TFD), an international group of forest experts from business, environmental, academic and human … of violence. It most often follows disputes over rights to land and resources but can also arise over conservation priorities, pollution, … Colchester, Director of the Forest Peoples Programme, a human rights group. “As this report stresses, conflicts may be rooted in the lack of …
News, 08 July 2009
IIED's Krystyna Swiderska discusses the latest research on how indigenous people adapt to climate change at a side event at the 2016 UN climate conference in Marrakech (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
Indigenous people use own knowledge to boost food yields despite climate change, research finds
News, 22 November 2016
Baka women collecting non-timber forest products in Nomedjoh, Cameroon (Photo: Indra Van Gisbergen)
Biodiversity: a women’s business?
… and cosmetics. They use their traditional knowledge to manage the natural resources sustainably, meaning these products flourish, can be harvested … marketing for a wider range of forest products while ensuring forest resources are used sustainably by both women and men.  In Myanmar, FFF …
Insight, 29 November 2018
REDD+ in Mozambique: new opportunity for land grabbers?
… increasingly acquiring large tracts of land and searching for other natural resources, in particular water and minerals. A land grab is on in my own … were part of the REDD consultation process, and the REDD+ working group are looking at Mozambican legislation regarding carbon rights and …
Insight, 15 September 2011
Discussing free, prior and informed consent in REDD+
Free, prior and informed consent in REDD+: going beyond the right to say ‘no’
… where more than 50 communities – including the Kifulu – use the resources to help support their way of living. Chairs were lined up for … taken as part and parcel of decision-making on conservation, natural resources management, and development processes at a local … widows, we need support’ ‘men make all decisions’ ….the men in the group reacted angrily to this last point and the woman changed her …
Insight, 27 July 2012
Dr Dilys Roe (IIED) and Dr Rosie Cooney (IUCN SULI) with South African Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Bomo Edna Molewa (Photo: Kim Ludbrook/EPA Photos)
Innovative approaches to tackling wildlife crime on the frontlines
… of the  IUCN CEESP/SSC Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group , said: "We are excited to have such a diverse range of fantastic … play an important role in the management and sustainable use of wild resources. In light of the current poaching crisis and the associated … of Nature (IUCN) CEESP/SSC Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi) , IIED, Austrian Ministry of Environment, the University of …
News, 27 February 2015