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Woman stallholder selling bananas hands a bag to a man.
Incentives for an inclusive green economy
… working closest to biodiversity, and Insurance market development for human-wildlife conflict in Kenya, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. …
Article, 06 September 2022
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Community Wildlife Scouts and Enterprise Groups Forum Report
… with the aim of encouraging communities to work together to reduce human-wildlife conflict and reduce wildlife crime. The forum brought …
Publication, 01 April 2020
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Towards ecosystem-based governance of the high seas
… a global legal regime that allowed for an integrated assessment of human activities and their interactions with the marine environment”. …
Publication, 01 July 2020
Houses on stilts at the side of water, with trees behind
30x30 – a brave new dawn or a failure to protect people and nature?
… of Helsinki into 34 protected areas across the Congo Basin that found human rights violations in at least a half of them, displacement of … agencies in the global North that supposedly had social safeguards, human rights standards and accountability mechanisms. It was not until … and local communities (IPLCs), it could lead to more green grabs, human rights violations and food insecurity of those least responsible …
Insight, 21 October 2021
IIED's 2017 strategy update
Our strategy: 2014-2019
… an international reputation for action research on natural resources, human settlements, climate change and sustainable markets. We updated … rural areas and the global environment.  Read more about our work on human settlements. Fair and equitable solutions to climate change We …
Page, 29 July 2022
Landscape of fields and forest
Q&A: Negotiating a new biodiversity deal that works for Indigenous Peoples
… Development Program (OPDP) , a Kenyan-based NGO working to secure human and land rights of the Indigenous Ogiek community and other … biodiversity have been cleared out to pave way for agriculture and human settlement. Loss of forest biodiversity has led to the loss of the … outcomes are needed at OEWG-3 to achieve this?  DK: Respecting human rights should be paramount to addressing challenges faced by …
Article, 09 August 2021
An image of a man with a wheelbarrow in the Kibera informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, the biggest in Africa and one of the biggest in the world. The rights of all must be incorporated into the 'new urban agenda' (Photo: Steffan Jensen/www.reversehomesickness.com, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Recognising urban rights: global debates and local struggles
… unique opportunity for state authorities at all levels to realise the human rights of all inhabitants". This and other events held in the … to Habitat III have led to extensive discussion around the role of human rights in promoting sustainable, inclusive and equitable … (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement .  While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is also endorsed in the zero draft, the calls to recognise …
Insight, 26 May 2016
Four elephants roam the plain on the Maasai Mara, Kenya
Covering elephant tracks: can insurance compensate farmers for wildlife damage?
… Across Africa and Asia, elephants impose major economic and human costs on poor women and men farmers, particularly around protected areas. They trample or eat crops, damage property, inflict human injury or even cause death. These interactions between people and elephants can spiral into conflict. The damage caused by human-wildlife conflict (HWC) can lead to local people killing wildlife …
Insight, 27 March 2019
Yanacocha Mine, in Cajamarca, Peru. The country's Supreme Court last year ruled in favour of a farmer that a US gold miner claimed was illegally occupying land it wanted to develop (Golda Fuentes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting community voices heard in investor-state arbitration
… at ways civil society groups are bringing community perspectives, human rights, and environmental issues to the attention of arbitral … can affect communities' access to land and natural resources, their human rights, or damage the environment on which these communities … participants the steps he and local Peruvian CSO, the Association of Human Rights and Environment of Puno (DHUMA)  followed to make a …
Insight, 05 March 2018
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Climate risk assessment – Ethiopia
… the poor more vulnerable. Due to climate change as well as additional human induced factors, the areas affected by drought and desertification … and droughts respectively, which will increase conflict risk and human exposure. Vulnerability is high in relation to displaced and …
Publication, 20 April 2018