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Protect and survive: customary safeguards, traditional knowledge
… eager to monopolise control over it. But intellectual property rights such as patents are commercially oriented and ignore collective … revealing how customary laws and practices work through research with indigenous communities and local partners in China, India, Kenya, Panama … it through tools rooted in strengthening community organisations and resource management systems. One such tool is collective rules for …
Article, 09 November 2009
An association of farmers in northeast Myanmar carries out value chain analysis of elephant foot yam (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Strengthening producer organisations is key to making finance inclusive and effective
… is shaping more inclusive finance within its entire programme. Its Natural Resources research group has helped FAO, IUCN and Agricord … organisation types. For example, finance could be directed to indigenous peoples’ organisations in natural forests for territorial delimitation …
Article, 12 March 2019
Representatives from indigenous mountain communities gather in Bhutan to discuss the impacts of climate change and how to respond using their biocultural heritage
New film highlights mountain communities' climate workshop
… In May 2014, representatives from 25 indigenous mountain communities in 10 countries gathered in Bhutan. This … the Bhutan Declaration on Climate Change and Mountain Indigenous Peoples . Climate change is already having serious impacts on mountain … It called for the full implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples  and for support to revitalise indigenous …
News, 18 May 2015
Louder this time, ‘Turn REDD on its head!’
… Africa, many others are saying the same thing. And it is not just indigenous peoples and NGOs who point to the essential place of local rights and the capabilities and enterprises built on them. Increasingly … Natural resource management …
Insight, 30 November 2011
A giraffe takes stock at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy, where Social Assessment of Protective Area fieldwork starts next week (Photo: www.kicheche.com via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Time for a new look at social impacts of protected areas
… they evicted local people or restricted them from using the area's natural resources. In recent years, political commitment to social … places of natural beauty. But history shows that livelihoods and rights can suffer when states protect areas in which people live, have … decisions to avoid negative and maximise positive impacts for indigenous and local communities. Phil Franks is a senior researcher in …
Insight, 11 March 2014
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New roadmap for boosting small-scale and family forest producers
… Indigenous peoples, local communities and private smallholders own or manage a … when we talk about the role of the private sector in forest landscape management and restoration," says Chris Buss, deputy director of IUCN's … Creating supporting legal frameworks, protecting forest tenure rights of indigenous people, local communities, removing regulatory …
News, 30 June 2014
More than 250 participants shared their experiences and examples of good practice at CBA12 (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
How can insights from CBA12 inform global discussions on the SDGs and resilience?
… economic planning process, and then translating the traditional and indigenous knowledge of different interest groups in local communities … deforestation and improve household health – but greater resource rights to forest and pastures are also needed to address deforestation. … can be effective change agents. Noreen Nampewo from Uganda's Women’s Natural Resource Governance Institute set out the importance …
Insight, 16 July 2018
Can hunting wildlife contribute to biodiversity conservation?
… programmes is CAMPFIRE (Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources) in Zimbabwe. Revenues from hunting have helped … devolve wildlife ownership to communities so they have the access and rights (and therefore ability and incentive) to manage it. Many of the … which stresses the importance of local decision-making in natural resource management. In principle, community-based conservation …
Insight, 19 November 2010
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Community protocols can bring real benefits to communities and combat biodiversity loss
… Indigenous people and local communities have received few benefits from … biodiversity and traditional knowledge. They set out a community’s rights and responsibilities relating to natural resources, to help communities defend these rights and negotiate …
Insight, 15 March 2012
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The Pastoral Women's Council: Empowerment for Tanzania's Maasai
… commercial farming. Maasai pastoralist women lack property ownership rights, access to social services and the power to make decisions about … and encouraging women to talk openly). Its approach is to empower indigenous communities to secure their access and rights to natural resources and to have their role in the management of these …
Publication, 01 August 2008