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David Arach presented Namati's approach to community land protection, focusing on the key stage of community by-laws drafting, in the IIED webinar (Image: David Arach)
Using community by‑laws to protect indigenous and rural land rights
… Indigenous peoples and rural communities who rely on customary tenure systems to … many threats including climate change, food and water insecurity, natural resource conflicts, population growth and large-scale … by-laws regulate governance, use and management of land and natural resources and social and cultural rules. They seek to protect the rights …
Insight, 01 December 2016
Securing land rights for indigenous peoples, such as these members of the Xingu tribe, pictured in Brazil, is critical to alleviating poverty (Photo: Rights and Resources Initiative)
Securing indigenous and community land rights in the future we want
… of the SDGs includes targets on ownership and control of land and natural resources, a critical foundation for reducing poverty and … language on the land and resource rights of the estimated 1.5 billion indigenous peoples and local communities who govern at least 6.8 billion hectares … Securing indigenous and community land rights in the future we want …
Insight, 24 March 2015
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Low-tech, bottom-up, place-based approaches to addressing environmental degradation
… time in human history but declining less rapidly on land managed by Indigenous Peoples than on other lands. This study for the Reversing Environmental … degradation.  It outlines the critical role of local communities and Indigenous Peoples in driving locally-led action and considers how to … Natural resource management …
Publication, 12 April 2023
Five young men sit on benches on a lawn outside a building. They are listening to two older men seated at a desk.
IIED at Stockholm+50
Event, 02 June 2022
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Biodiversity on the brink: local people must shape nature’s new deal
… protecting biodiversity.  It must be both more ambitious and have the resources and political commitment necessary to achieve its goals, as … meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh must agree a process that truly includes indigenous peoples and local communities. They are vital stewards of biodiversity …
Insight, 16 November 2018
Rainforest logged to make way for palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Deforestation for agribusiness is destroying habitats and the ecosystems upon which local communities depend (Photo: David Gilbert/RAN, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Law and political economy of the global resource squeeze: can action rise to the challenge?
… As principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group, Lorenzo Cotula leads research, policy … growing recourse to international law in land and resource disputes. Indigenous peoples have successfully relied on human rights treaties to challenge …
Article, 04 March 2019
A woman in a crowded room raises her hand to speak.
Making finance flow for locally-led action in the Decade of Action
… journey and turn their minds to what more is needed. Ensuring Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) can influence decision-making, … environment and development actions, and control over finances and resources is critical. Yet much of the control of finance and …
Event, 25 May 2022
A photo of a man addressing a conference, pictured through the heads of those listening
Leading on nature: can the new Secretary of State deliver bold action on environment and poverty?
Insight, 31 May 2019
A Raika man leading his sheep and goats to graze in the contested Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary.
How communities are protecting their biocultural resources with community protocols
… many communities are struggling to safeguard their biodiverse resources in the face of development threats from, for example, mining, … Resources to the Convention on Biological Diversity , to support indigenous and local communities in developing these community protocols … rights and consent (PLA 65) IIED's biocultural heritage website Natural Justice's community protocols website …
Insight, 02 October 2012
A woman farmer tends her crops, surrounded by her crops
Locally-led action essential for achieving global biodiversity goals
… the Kunming Declaration and the draft GBF recognise the rights of Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLCs) and the need to ensure … truly put IPLCs in the driving seat – including directing funding and resources into their hands. Solutions fit for purpose IPLCs are the … is located on the territories of the world’s half-billion Indigenous Peoples, who manage about a quarter of the world’s land. Indigenous …
Insight, 14 February 2022