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Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)
IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
… impacts, and How efforts to enhance participation and recognition of indigenous peoples and local communities in PA governance, and reduce poverty, … was to examine the importance of strengthening community resource rights and benefit-sharing for achieving sustainable and equitable use …
Event, 12 November 2014
Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)
It's time for revolution in forest business
… is available that maintains the integrity of both forests and peoples who depend on them. Prosavannah in Mozambique has an investment … agenda mutually developed from 2009-12 by international alliances of indigenous people, community forestry and family small-holders (forest 'rights-holders') in a series of 11 dialogues organised with investors by …
Insight, 17 November 2014
A community forest in Ethiopia.Credit: Growing Forest Partnerships
Local control of forests brings economic, environmental and social gains
… Community Forestry joined forces with the International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forest and the International Family Forestry Alliance to create the G3 – or Three Rights Holders’ Group , a global network of family, community and …
News, 13 June 2012
Land cleared for palm oil production, Indonesia (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How investment treaties protect 'land grab' deals
… reflects wider trends.  How investment treaties can affect land rights In recent years, investors have relied on investment treaties to … before national courts, while governments have invoked them to resist indigenous peoples' restitution claims targeting land owned by foreign investors. … Land acquisitions and rights …
Insight, 17 February 2016
The impact of drought on formerly arable land can be seen in Fuyuan county in southwest China's Yunnan province, an area known for its mild climate (Photo: Mingjia Zhou, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Mountain communities being devastated by extreme climate impacts
… regions are home to some of the poorest and most marginalised indigenous people. In the last 18 months alone: Papua New Guinea has … second meeting of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP), which includes Bhutan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Papua … and to integrate these into education systems. It calls for their rights to land, natural resources and traditional ways of life to be …
News, 18 November 2015
The Potato Park, Peru, which hosted a previous meeting of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (Image: IIED)
Mountain communities rebuild diverse, climate-resilient crops
… Indigenous groups and traditional farmers from 21 mountain communities … learning exchange of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples, which includes communities from Bhutan, China, India, … indigenous peoples and traditional farmers, and to protect farmers' rights and indigenous peoples' intellectual property rights.    Ahead of …
News, 06 October 2015
Peru's Inca capital slams door shut on biopirates
… the World Intellectual Property Organization have failed to protect indigenous people's traditional knowledge and associated genetic … ensure that biopiracy does not prey on the creativity of indigenous peoples and local communities." The law gives indigenous communities a … poor indigenous people and farming communities of their ancestral rights to natural resources." "This law ensures that there is an equal …
News, 14 January 2009
A forest ranger takes measurements of a tree at Megeni Kitasha in the Rombo District in Moshi, Tanzania (Photo: FAO/Simon Maina)
IIED at the XIV World Forestry Congress
… and that all key stakeholders, including young people, women, indigenous people and local communities, are given a platform where the … in us: forest smallholders, community forest members and indigenous peoples in Asia Date: Tuesday, 8 September Convening organisations:  The … Pan European Forest Council (PEFC), The Nature Conservancy and Rights and Resources Initiative (TBC) Representatives including …
Event, 07 September 2015
Farmers sit in a field sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, Peru.
Making the Nagoya Protocol work at the community level
… while supporting marginalised communities as they defend their rights to land and resources. Benefits for communities The Nagoya … But it includes two potential safeguards for protecting the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities. They are often the best custodians of … Natural resource management …
Insight, 04 July 2012
A discussion on protected area governance in a stakeholder workshop with a community on the edge of Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda (Image: Francesca Brooker/IIED)
Q&A: How can we achieve 'fairer conservation'?
… barriers to governance reform – for example the marginalisation of indigenous peoples. The instrumental argument is a response to the frequent failure … equity in protected area conservation: a matter of governance, rights, social impacts and human wellbeing , Phil Franks, Francesca …
Article, 27 February 2018