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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'?
… barriers to governance reform – for example the marginalisation of indigenous peoples. The instrumental argument is a response to the frequent failure … theory, confirmed by practical experience, indicates that equity in natural resource management and conservation (but not necessarily in …
Article, 27 February 2018
Negotiations went long into the night at COP20 in Lima, Peru, but the road to dignity seems no clearer (Photo: Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, via Creative Commons)
Can the road to Paris lead to the road to dignity?
… dignity I saw at the Lima COP was at a press conference of Peruvian indigenous leaders. An indigenous woman told an almost empty room how … manage their forests and trees in a sustainable manner.  Recent World Resources Institute analysis shows that the evidence backs this up: where indigenous peoples have legal rights to their forest, protected by government …
Insight, 15 December 2014
Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)
It's time for revolution in forest business
… is available that maintains the integrity of both forests and peoples who depend on them. Prosavannah in Mozambique has an investment … agenda mutually developed from 2009-12 by international alliances of indigenous people, community forestry and family small-holders (forest … they need to develop sustainable forest business is significant: natural capital in the form of secure forest rights; human capital in …
Insight, 17 November 2014
An association of farmers in northeast Myanmar carries out value chain analysis of elephant foot yam (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Strengthening producer organisations is key to making finance inclusive and effective
… is shaping more inclusive finance within its entire programme. Its Natural Resources research group has helped FAO, IUCN and Agricord … organisation types. For example, finance could be directed to indigenous peoples’ organisations in natural forests for territorial delimitation …
Article, 12 March 2019
A woman carries firewood in the rainforest
CoNGOs: NGOs collaborating for equitable and sustainable community livelihoods in Congo Basin forests
… strategies aiming for economic growth focus on the exploitation of natural resources including forests, and the rapid development of … in forest dependent communities, such as forest and farm producers, indigenous peoples, and women's groups, to help build the foundations for a more …
Project, 04 August 2016
Farmers analyse local maize varieties in the Karst mountains, Southwest China. IIED's work includes participatory plant breeding and community supported agriculture (Photo: IIED)
Can ecosystem-based adaptation help deliver the promise of Paris?
… but least able to adapt.  At the same time they rely heavily on the natural environment for their livelihoods, which provides food, water … economic diversification and sustainable management of natural resources."  The COP22 climate negotiations in Marrakech helped pave the … mangroves to protect coastlines from storm surges, conserving indigenous crops to develop climate-resistant varieties, and …
Insight, 13 January 2017
Unleashing the economic power of forest lands through producer organisations
… role despite the fact that there are around one billion smallholders, indigenous people and local community members owning one quarter of the … the need for governments to implement reforms to ensure that indigenous peoples, local communities and private smallholders have secure tenure … Natural resource management …
News, 05 December 2013
More than 250 participants shared their experiences and examples of good practice at CBA12 (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
How can insights from CBA12 inform global discussions on the SDGs and resilience?
… economic planning process, and then translating the traditional and indigenous knowledge of different interest groups in local communities … of emergencies, can also be seen as effectively a waste of scarce resources if the emergency could have been prevented. How climate risks … can be effective change agents. Noreen Nampewo from Uganda's Women’s Natural Resource Governance Institute set out the importance …
Insight, 16 July 2018
Women hoeing a field.
Building a women-led community climate movement
… Environmental conservation and restoration through the planting of indigenous trees Low-cost, appropriate climate-smart sanitation and … Mobilization for Positive Empowerment (COMPE)  and Women in Water and Natural Resources Conservation (WWANC) . In Uganda, the local organisations are …
Article, 03 December 2020
A giraffe takes stock at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy, where Social Assessment of Protective Area fieldwork starts next week (Photo: www.kicheche.com via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Time for a new look at social impacts of protected areas
… they evicted local people or restricted them from using the area's natural resources. In recent years, political commitment to social equity in … decisions to avoid negative and maximise positive impacts for indigenous and local communities. Phil Franks is a senior researcher in …
Insight, 11 March 2014