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A native bird in Costa Rica found in a payments for environmental services project run by IIED and FONAFIFO (Photo Ina Porras)
Who will pay for ecosystem services?
… their local livelihoods while coexisting with forests and other natural ecosystems. Indigenous communities and small farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, have been … rights, corrupted governments and lack of local knowledge, skills and resources. But for now, I want to focus on the more straightforward …
Insight, 28 January 2014
Citizens reframing conservation policies and practice for food and livelihood security, environmental sustainability and justice
… project that increasingly allows extractive industries to exploit resources (minerals, oil…) in protected areas for new cycles of … ecological sustainability. Depending on outcomes of dialogues with indigenous peoples’ and other relevant actors such as IUCN’s Commission on …
Article, 15 July 2009
Report backs novel approach to improving forest governance
News, 17 August 2009
Policy-makers discussing, reflecting, learning and building skills and capacities for climate adaptation at village-level. All key social learning activities. (Photo: E. van de Grift)
Social learning event features case studies from around the world
… be seen as a social learning case study: Case study: assessing water resources Another case study looked at the Hoima watershed management … partner of CCAFS, is promoting local innovation in agriculture and natural resource management. The focus is on recognising the dynamics of indigenous knowledge and building on farmers' own capacities, which is …
Insight, 04 August 2014
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Part IIII. TOWARDS EEFFECTIVE INSTITUTIONS Chapter 7. CO-MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS
Publication, 01 January 1970
Stakeholders inspect timber as part of the Eighth field dialogue on Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry (ILCF) in Yogyakarta (Jogya), Central Java Province, Indonesia.
Needed: Local farmers and communities to plant trees in Indonesia
… processing capacity, which is generally met by clear-cutting natural forest.   In 2005, for example, up to 65% of the timber feeding … optimising the incentives for local families, communities and indigenous peoples to invest in commercial tree planting and management in …
Insight, 22 February 2012
IIED director Camilla Toulmin enjoys the 12th D&C Days event at COP20 in Lima, Peru (Photo; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change
Insight, 11 December 2014
A meeting of mines
… for the developed world’s ‘exploitation’ of the developing world’s natural resources. Corruption within the industry, ‘mismanagement’ and a lack of … half of all copper and gold will be mined on land used or claimed by indigenous people . This means mining companies must meet stringent …
Insight, 20 April 2010
Farmer stands in her field of groundnuts boarded by maize in Malawi
Democratising food and agricultural research
… to address the challenges of food security, poverty and sustainable natural resource management. It can generate knowledge, technologies and … dialogues' created a series of videos where local people discussed indigenous wisdom. IIED has also engaged directly with the Global Forum …
Project, 17 August 2012
Street scene, Karachi, Pakistan. Photo by Fareena Chanda
Can we change the goals of development without changing the implementers?
… affordable, sustainable and reliable energy services, productive resources and financial services. Also the provision of legal identity … decision-making at all levels and ensure prior informed consent of indigenous and local communities in decision-making and natural resources management,” but far more than this will be needed to …
Insight, 09 July 2014