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Farmers sit in a field sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, Peru.
Making the Nagoya Protocol work at the community level
… or so, it will create new incentives for countries to protect their natural capital while enabling businesses to develop useful new products … But it includes two potential safeguards for protecting the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities. They are often the best custodians of … Natural resource management …
Insight, 04 July 2012
Smoked fish is a delicacy in Cameroon (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Protecting Cameroon's forests: a fishy business?
… (TF-RD) – also part of the CoNGOs consortium − has been training indigenous women in better harvesting and processing techniques, helping …  ( [email protected] ) is principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group. … Natural resource management …
Insight, 28 July 2017
Pope Francis met with indigenous leaders, including Yesica Patiachi who is from the Harakbut people, one of the three main ethnic groups in the Madre de Dios region
On pilgrimage in Madre de Dios: starting a journey to sustainable artisanal mining
… is known in Peru as the 'capital of biodiversity'. Local people and indigenous groups from Peru, Brazil and Bolivia welcomed Pope Francis … Francis and indigenous people discussed issues affecting the Amazon's peoples and environment.  We must break with the historical paradigm … including extractive and forest industries seeking to exploit its resources or deforest its lands to pursue large-scale agriculture. He …
Insight, 07 February 2018
Indigenous mountain farmers examine a map of the Stone Village water management system, showing the water channels (Photo: Irene Song)
Mountain communities call for stronger action to counter climate change
… melting glaciers. At a recent meeting in the Stone Village, China, 18 indigenous mountain communities from China, Nepal, Kyrgyz Republic, … Tajikistan and Peru called for support to strengthen traditional natural resource management systems, especially water management.  The … developed by the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP), calls for support to strengthen the inter-generational …
News, 23 June 2016
Men present findings on a large map at the front of a community meeting
How can we incorporate local knowledge into climate planning and policy? …Maps!
… been instrumental in helping to address power imbalances and enable indigenous knowledge to be recognised and incorporated into planning and … It has been key to making it possible to digitally map Isiolo’s resources in a way that is truly participatory. In 2013, when the first … farming areas, county government facilitators could map customary natural resource management regimes based on the planned mobility of …
Insight, 17 January 2020
Indigenous people at the Himalayan workshop
Biocultural heritage landscape to be established in Eastern Himalayas
… Seven Indigenous ethnic groups in the Eastern Himalayas have committed to … (India) and the International Network for Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP) , with support from Asociación ANDES (Peru) and IIED.  … which economic development, conservation, and good governance of natural resources will be carried out.   Workshop participants agreed to …
News, 30 November 2017
Africa is the last place on Earth with a significant assemblage of large mammals, according to the IPBES report (Photo: Kasia Wallis, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Warnings on state of life on our planet are loud, clear and alarming
… landmark new assessment highlights the crucial value of local and indigenous people's knowledge. The evidence is clear that when people … have good information, secure rights and ownership over land and natural resources, and the freedom to organise – good stewardship of …
News, 23 March 2018
REDD+: Learning from participatory forest management
… the world derive about one fifth of household income from forest resources. Models for delivering REDD+ must be able to at least match … particular, about the potential of decentralising decision making in natural resource management and devolving rights over resources to local … — which must be participatory and engage forest-dependent people and indigenous communities. Second, ensuring meaningful and beneficial …
Insight, 10 November 2011
Stalls of fruits and vegetables.
Food Systems Summit: implications for global food governance
… at centre-stage the rights and voices of small-scale rural producers, Indigenous Peoples, the landless, workers and consumers. The protests highlighted … that shape narratives, define agendas, catalyse alliances, mobilise resources and, ultimately, frame governance models. With the summit … Natural resource management …
Insight, 30 September 2021
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Parks, People and Professionals: Putting "participation" into Protected Area Management
… Since the first establishment of protected areas of outstanding natural beauty or species and habitat uniqueness during the last … this conservation has been that people are bad for natural resources. Policies and practice have, therefore, sought to exclude … This style of conservation has neglected local people, their indigenous knowledge and management systems, their institutions and …
Publication, 01 February 1995