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Forest and Farm Facility Annual Report 2024
… organisations (FFPOs). It works with these producer groups among Indigenous Peoples, local communities and smallholder farmers. 2024 was a year of … Natural resource management …
Publication, 31 March 2025
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IIED launches SAGE version 2.0 – a tool for improving governance and equity in nature conservation
… should respect the rights to land and resources and human rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP and LCs). This is not only to avoid … Nepal, small-scale fisheries in the Philippines, and community-based natural resource management in Southern Africa.  Bottom-up does not mean …
Insight, 28 June 2023
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Development and Climate Days 2025 goes digital-first ahead of Brazil UNFCCC COP30
News, 11 September 2025
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Indigenous peoples’ land rights in Cameroon: progress to date and possible futures
… developments are exerting increasing pressure on land and natural resources, which is in turn exacerbating the risks to the rights of indigenous peoples. Against this backdrop, the ongoing process of revising … Indigenous peoples’ land rights in Cameroon: progress to date and possible futures …
Publication, 01 December 2017
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Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development
… The lands and territories of Indigenous Peoples harbour some 80% of the world’s biodiversity – and Indigenous … racial discrimination. They face growing dispossession of land and natural resources, their cultures are being eroded by modernisation, and … Natural resource management … Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development …
Project, 29 April 2019
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Finding solutions in nature for climate change
Insight, 29 May 2020
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Critical minerals, international policy and a just energy transition
… value addition, fair benefit sharing and respect for the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities and small-scale producers? This online event … Natural resource management …
Event, 29 January 2025
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Grant-making for locally-led action: views from the national champions
Article, 20 March 2024
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Indigenous Seed Systems and Biocultural Heritage: The Andean Potato Park's Approach to Seed Governance
… In the Indigenous worldview, seeds are both biological entities and embodiments of immateriality: knowledge, culture and the sacred. Indigenous seed systems thus codify the human connection to nature. Yet such ‘informal’ systems, whether developed by Indigenous peoples or small-scale farmers, barely surface in policy debates. …
Publication, 12 February 2022
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Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… Species are being lost at about a thousand times the natural rate of extinction. This is faster than at any other period in … getting some attention. But its connection to another loss – that of indigenous cultures – is rarely mentioned. From animals to insects and … of indigenous cultures. The two are inextricably linked. Indigenous peoples have conserved biodiversity for millennia. They have created …
Insight, 18 February 2020