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Miners showing minerals.
Critical minerals and the just energy transition: opportunities and challenges
… and environmental impacts. A ‘just transition’ requires ensuring rights are protected across critical minerals policies and processes. This can involve Indigenous Peoples and local communities claiming their rights and protecting the … Natural resource management …
Project, 30 July 2024
A woman farmer bends over in a field of crops in front of forest in the background.
Flourishing forests and prosperous people – together
… while also enhancing the prosperity of forest-dependent people? Indigenous People, forest communities and forest and farm smallholder … incubation toolkits such as ‘ ForBInc ’. IIED has also produced risk management toolkits such as ‘ Securing forest business ’ and guidance on … while major official development aid streams to sustainable forest management such as the Forest Investment Programme have been evaluated . …
Article, 04 January 2022
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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 … nature. Yet such ‘informal’ systems, whether developed by Indigenous peoples or small-scale farmers, barely surface in policy debates. … to seed security and diversity, they conclude, a biocultural rights-based approach to seed governance is required  and  needs further …
Publication, 12 February 2022
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 … webinar examined how community by-laws can help secure customary land rights to build community unity, improve local land governance, and … many threats including climate change, food and water insecurity, natural resource conflicts, population growth and large-scale …
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
… foundation for reducing poverty and enhancing food security, women's rights and ecosystem conservation. However, a notable omission in the … 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 … Land acquisitions and rights …
Insight, 24 March 2015
aerial view of an oil palm plantation
Land rights and investment treaties
Project, 07 May 2020
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… 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 … by modernisation, commercial development pressures, lack of secure rights to land and resources, migration and lack of cultural education. …
Insight, 18 February 2020
Nature landscape of a spring with ducks, and mountains in the background
Supporting a nature positive, equitable global biodiversity framework
… with the full consent, participation and leadership of the Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) that own or manage most of the … dialogues, in collaboration with other environment, development and rights-based organisations Advocating for the recognition of IPLCs …
Project, 04 May 2021
View of Kunming, China, of a lake and houses in the background
Learning from Paris: what would ‘Kunming-compliant’ look like for development cooperation agencies?
… the world’s land area by 2030 could have disastrous consequences for Indigenous Peoples and local communities if their rights to land and resources are not respected. So development …
Insight, 25 February 2021
People in a forest looking at trees
Charting a “path to recovery and wellbeing” on 2021’s International Day of Forests
Insight, 19 March 2021