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Community protocols can bring real benefits to communities and combat biodiversity loss
… Indigenous people and local communities have received few benefits from … They set out a community’s rights and responsibilities relating to natural resources, to help communities defend these rights and negotiate with …
Insight, 15 March 2012
Indigenous communities sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, near Cusco, Peru. Credit: Asociacion ANDES
Traditional innovation in farming is under threat
… donors invest millions to deliver 'climate smart agriculture'. Yet indigenous farming practices already conserve natural resources (water, soil, crop diversity) and use natural processes …
Insight, 02 October 2013
Land cleared for palm oil production, Indonesia (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How investment treaties protect 'land grab' deals
… before national courts, while governments have invoked them to resist indigenous peoples' restitution claims targeting land owned by foreign investors. … and local communities in the face of commercial pressures on land. Resources  Land rights and investment treaties: exploring the interface … Natural resource management …
Insight, 17 February 2016
Can hunting wildlife contribute to biodiversity conservation?
… programmes is CAMPFIRE (Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources) in Zimbabwe. Revenues from hunting have helped change … which stresses the importance of local decision-making in natural resource management. In principle, community-based conservation …
Insight, 19 November 2010
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Sustaining the Multiple Functions of Agricultural Biodiversity
… role in shaping nature’s diversity and its associated functions. Both natural processes and human management have generated and sustained a … This erosion is due to a range of factors, including the neglect of indigenous knowledge, institutions and management systems; the blueprint … access to, and control over, land, water, trees and genetic resources on the part of local people; market pressures and the …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Two women talking to each other at a crowded event.
Strengthening local voices in the governance of food systems and the environment
… groups traditionally excluded from policy processes such as women and indigenous people. These groups are at risk of becoming further … different themes: Food and farming futures for small producers and Indigenous Peoples Transforming agri-food research for citizen participation and … Natural resource management …
Project, 01 September 2011
Local voice, global forest, local forest, global voice
… of working for the equitable and sustainable management of forestry resources, had organized, in collaboration with The Forests Dialogue , a … GFP had therefore invited various local community groups representing indigenous peoples, tribal peoples, minorities and forest dwellers to this series …
Insight, 17 January 2011
Tanzania: participatory training events for small-scale farmers can introduce the concept of climate change and help farmers identify which crops could work well in their area (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS)
From knowledge to action – how top down training is driving bottom-up resilience in Tanzania
Insight, 09 March 2015
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
… circular economy models that involve recycling, reuse and combining resources to reduce dependency on external inputs, in particular fossil … locally-controlled circular systems, which mimic the closed-loops of natural cycles. These systems apply to the production of food, energy, … was set up in 2001 and collaborated directly with local farming and indigenous communities in regenerating biodiversity-rich farming and …
Project, 14 August 2013
Peñas Blancas Reservoir in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica: Growing money on trees
… this decade. Based on economic theory, the idea is that ecosystem resources can be better protected if landowners receive a financial … Squabbles about the legitimacy to sign REDD and PES contracts in indigenous territories in the country are regulated by a law that recognises the official Indigenous association as the only official body to sign contracts. …
Insight, 26 June 2012