Search results

314 results
A market takes place in the village of Tiogo next to the Tiogo Forest in Burkina Faso. With much of the food and hand crafts on sale from the forest, the community is dependent on the conservation of the forest to maintain their livelihoods (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Towards a fairer future for conservation
… Congress highlights 11 ongoing cases of violations of the rights of indigenous peoples linked to conservation. Finding a fairer way forward Equity is … Phil Franks ([email protected]) is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group . This blog was originally posted by …
Insight, 05 September 2016
Ol Pejeta Conservancy in northern Kenya is home to four of the seven northern white rhino left in the world. The park is using SAPA as part of its community programme (Photo: Guy Lemal)
Piloting Social Assessment of Protected Areas: some initial reflections
… as well as the negative impacts (costs) such as reduced access to resources and crop damage by wildlife. SAPA is a relatively simple, … there has been major progress on protected area governance to empower indigenous people and local communities, and major investments in … Franks ( [email protected] ) is a senior researcher within IIED's Natural Resources Group . SAPA is funded by the UK Government’s Darwin …
Insight, 23 September 2014
Countryside in Guangxi Autonomous Region, China. Photo: Duncan Macqueen
Strength in numbers: the promise of forest producer organisations
… from a series of 11 dialogues between smallholder, community and indigenous people’s groups and investors. An ILCF guide for investors … Natural resource management …
Insight, 28 November 2013
CBA12: Key messages
Article, 11 June 2018
MMSD – working papers
Article, 04 March 2009
Tick tock — it’s the year of forests
… figure is misleading. Increasing rates of deforestation in biodiverse natural forests are hidden by afforestation elsewhere. We are not … fix it. Tock. It is true that technology is helping us to use fewer resources to produce more (‘ relative de-coupling ’). For example, in … and pulp and paper companies. Satellite imagery in Brazil show that indigenous lands make up a fifth of the legal Amazon and remain 98.3 per …
Insight, 22 December 2010
Gastro(eco)nomic revolution in Peru
… fought and stole under different flags to get hold of the same natural resources – gold, silver, sugar, cotton and wool – and of course the … it as a unique Peruvian drink. Advertisements featured images with indigenous people from the coast, the Andes and the Amazon region in …
Insight, 16 October 2011
Commercial logging in Tengchong, China. Photo: Simon Lim
Supporting locally-controlled forest enterprises
Article, 11 September 2013
Some ecological settings, such as drylands, which are home to a high proportion of the world’s poor, are poorly studied and have become the neglected 'ugly duckling' of biodiversity research (Photo: Marie Monimart)
What we know about how biodiversity and poverty are linked: The good, the bad and the ugly
… professional science reported in peer-reviewed journal articles to indigenous knowledge passed on orally can qualify as evidence.   … richer evidence base. Dilys Roe is a principal researcher in IIED's natural resources group ( [email protected] ). This post was first published on …
Insight, 31 March 2014
COP20 begins in Lima, where negotiators have gathered to discuss action to tackle global climate change (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20)
Event, 01 December 2014