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Navigating ocean investments
… a strong opportunity to support the sustainable management of marine resources, improve coastal livelihoods and generate financial returns. … performance and expected returns; limited understanding of how marine resources can be organised to generate returns. Collaborative management … in tourism businesses and improved fishery productivity.) Additional resources Download the full Insights publication ' Navigating ocean …
Article, 01 October 2019
Five young men sit on benches on a lawn outside a building. They are listening to two older men seated at a desk.
IIED at Stockholm+50
… driving change through support for local level decision-making over resources and finance This new report from IIED and the Swedish …
Event, 02 June 2022
Participants at the third China-Africa Forest Governance Learning Platform meeting in Beijing (Photo: Simon Lim/IIED)
China-Africa Forest Governance Learning Platform puts focus on business solutions
… in Beijing to discuss how China can help sustain Africa's forest resources . Delegates included representatives of African … Mercy Kandulu of the Forestry Department of the Ministry of Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection in Zambia, gave a … Dr. Junzuo Zhang, programme director, InFIT Programme , summarised a group discussion about how Chinese guidelines and future policies …
News, 14 February 2017
The GWI website (Photo: IIED)
New website focuses on dams and family farming in West Africa
… Jamie Skinner ( [email protected] ), principal researcher, Natural Resources Group; team leader, water … Natural resource management …
News, 15 January 2015
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Local-Level Economic Valuation of Savanna Woodland Resources: Village cases from Zimbabwe
… a local-level valuation exercise on wild food and tree based resources, and to assess the applicability of PRA techniques for local … Hot Springs Working Group … Natural resource management … Local-Level Economic Valuation of Savanna Woodland Resources: Village cases from Zimbabwe …
Publication, 01 January 1995
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Rights, Revenue and Resources: The problems and potential of conservancies as community wildlife management institutions in Namibia
… areas to establish a ‘conservancy’ on their land in order to utilise natural resources, including wildlife. However, a number of problems have … Natural resource management … Rights, Revenue and Resources: The problems and potential of conservancies as community …
Publication, 01 January 1999
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Our other sites and networks
… across Cameroon to improve customary and formal rights to land and natural resources through piloting land governance innovations at the local … climate change. Project page Poverty and Conservation Learning Group 2006 - 2023 An international network, coordinated by IIED, for …
Page, 30 September 2022
The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)
Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
… of socio-economic development and high levels of vulnerability to natural and human-caused disasters and shocks. The LDC Independent Expert Group (IEG) was created in 2013 to encourage LDCs to take a leading role … and a political economist who, during his time as Minister of Water Resources in Nepal, initiated reforms in the electricity and irrigation …
Article, 03 August 2015
US President Joe Biden speaking with a microphone
Biden’s climate summit needs to show leadership for the most vulnerable – here’s how
… to unlocking strong climate action, especially for adaptation. Giving resources and agency to local stakeholders to lead in adapting to … and institutions, will help to ensure that local communities have the resources and agency to lead sustainable and effective adaptation to … These calls aren’t new. The Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group and the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) are advocating the …
Insight, 20 April 2021
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Resource Tenure and Power Relations in Community Wildlife Contexts: The case of the Mkambati area on the wild coast of South Africa
… ‘the bundle of rights and duties governing access to and control over resources’). In Mkambati, the history of settlement by and dispossession … Natural resource management …
Publication, 01 January 2000