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Rhinos in the Serengeti National Park. The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates that poachers killed at least 1,338 rhinos across Africa in 2015 (Photo: Nicholas Maxim, Creative Commons via Flickr)
New report: local people are crucial to combating illegal wildlife trade
… Cooney, chair of IUCN's Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi) . "This meeting aimed to address that and provide a … .  The meeting also looked at the role of local people in overseeing natural areas and watching for criminal activity. "Without assistance …
News, 03 August 2016
The Nebbou area, between Ouagadougou and Leo, a dry reservoir used for the manufacture of handmade bricks in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR))
Archive of completed drylands and pastoralist projects
… focus on capacity building and an expanded focus on access to natural resources (and related conflict management), economic aspects of the …
Article, 17 December 2012
Bangladeshi climate negotiator Qazi K Ahmad
Q&A: World leaders must abandon their narrow political interests to deliver the best deal at COP21
Article, 24 November 2015
Mozambique: the next Atlantis?
… out a living from agriculture and fishing. But this dependence on natural resources to support themselves and their families leaves them … He is currently on a research based placement in the climate change group with IIED .   …
Insight, 15 September 2011
PLA 33: Understanding Market Opportunities
… understand markets and to develop their skills in managing financial resources.  The articles reflect a variety of development efforts to … enhance the capability of groups involved in smallholder agriculture, natural resource management and income-generation activities to …
Article, 30 September 1998
Policy-makers discussing, reflecting, learning and building skills and capacities for climate adaptation at village-level. All key social learning activities. (Photo: E. van de Grift)
Social learning event features case studies from around the world
… be seen as a social learning case study: Case study: assessing water resources Another case study looked at the Hoima watershed management … students, stakeholders together assess and determine water resources and water uses. This joint action – assessing threats to the … partner of CCAFS, is promoting local innovation in agriculture and natural resource management. The focus is on recognising the dynamics of …
Insight, 04 August 2014
An image showing a group of women from Tongaradha village, Bangladesh, who saved more than 2,000 hectares of land and 500 households from flooding by rebuilding a 12km embankment and a 5km road. GCF money should be used for such innovative, community-driven projects in poor countries that will drive long-term change (Photo: WFP/Rein Skullerud, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Expediting direct access to the GCF for least developed countries
… Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (MOFEC); and the Ministry of Natural Resources in Rwanda. While multilateral agencies may have managed to … ([email protected]) is a senior researcher in IIED's Climate Change Group . …
Insight, 09 May 2016
A discussion on protected area governance in a stakeholder workshop with a community on the edge of Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda (Image: Francesca Brooker/IIED)
Q&A: How can we achieve 'fairer conservation'?
… theory, confirmed by practical experience, indicates that equity in natural resource management and conservation (but not necessarily in …
Article, 27 February 2018
Global forest plan could boost fight against poverty and climate change
… range of stakeholders," says co-author James Mayers, head of IIED’s Natural Resources Group. "What the bank must now avoid is trying to drive the partnership …
News, 09 July 2008
Lagos in 2010. Under different scenarios, Lagos could have 61 million inhabitants in 2100, or over 100 million (Image: Ricardo Gomes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will Africa have the world's largest cities in 2100?
… be made for the population of these cities, based on projections for natural increase and for net in-migration up to 2100. But of course, … for all nations will be heavily influenced by the scale of natural increase in populations but will the population growth rates … is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements research group and visiting professor at the Development Planning Unit, …
Insight, 07 October 2016