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Members of Namibia's Marinefluss Conservancy hope their remote community will benefit from joint ventures with tourist enterprises (Photo: Steve Felton, WWF via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD
… successfully manage wildlife need to recognise the critical role of indigenous peoples and local communities, not only as on-the-ground custodians of … authorities work together over the long term and when the traditional rights of indigenous peoples and local communities are respected.  … Natural resource management …
Insight, 20 November 2018
Stalls of fruits and vegetables.
Food Systems Summit: implications for global food governance
… launched a ‘ counter-mobilisation ’ to place at centre-stage the rights and voices of small-scale rural producers, Indigenous Peoples, the landless, workers and consumers. The protests highlighted … Natural resource management …
Insight, 30 September 2021
A man waters seedlings at a nursery at the Rukinga Wildlife Sanctuary in Kenya managed by Wildlife Works Carbon.
Investment guide to ‘triple win’ from locally controlled forestry
… Agriculture Organization and the World Bank . These meetings gathered indigenous people, family foresters, researchers, government … capacity building or to secure and formalise commercial forest rights. Recognising these two investment roles offers a credible way to … locally controlled, by members of three major alliances of indigenous peoples, forest communities and private family smallholders. These …
News, 24 September 2012
A woman hands protective equipment to another woman.
Engaging pastoralist communities through citizen movements to amplify their voice
… Land :  works in Isiolo County to protect and defend land and human rights of pastoralists Samburu Women’s Trust :  promotes Indigenous women rights in Laikipia, Isiolo, Samburu and Marsabit … communities, as changing weather patterns directly affect customary natural resource management and adaptation strategies. The alliance does …
Article, 11 December 2020
Woman speaking with a microphone to an audience of men.
Every voice counts: addressing inequality in research and development
… levels. Recognition and access to resources Let us take the case of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) and their efforts to protect the … and representation The struggle for effective participation and rights continues, undermining global solidarity, as disadvantaged groups …
Insight, 16 March 2022
A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber
China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?
… surge – sometimes linked to deals in which China secures natural resources – will morph into the world’s biggest sustainable … land titles; large-scale displacement of local communities and indigenous people; high biodiversity-value forest loss; illicit timber … to be badly degraded in many areas and sometimes illegally converted. Indigenous communities are particularly hard hit. Pushing back for real, …
Insight, 19 June 2019
Close-up of a shovel, on which dirt is balanced, during a tree-planting ceremony, with a plaque in the background
Trees need locally-grown politics
… trees have also died – the wrong trees in the wrong place –being non-Indigenous monocultures prone to pests and diseases. Socioeconomic … a timeframe that enables effective participation of rural and urban peoples in project design and implementation. They may result in …
Insight, 04 June 2021
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How to boost investment in locally controlled forestry in Mexico
… to groups of landless laborers, whereas comunidades recognised indigenous peoples' claims to their land. These systems, of which there are about … means fewer enterprises can benefit. Most importantly, though, forest rights-holders and the investment community don’t understand each … Natural resource management …
Insight, 01 October 2013
A woman carries firewood in the rainforest
CoNGOs: NGOs collaborating for equitable and sustainable community livelihoods in Congo Basin forests
… an urgent need, not only to clarify, recognise and secure customary rights of forest-dependent communities, but to ensure that policies and … in forest dependent communities, such as forest and farm producers, indigenous peoples, and women's groups, to help build the foundations for a more … Land acquisitions and rights …
Project, 04 August 2016
A road through deforested land
Investor-state dispute settlement: IIED and partners contribute to reform working group
… asymmetries in the international investment regime, and protect the rights of third parties in the settlement of investment disputes." … Also, the rights of third parties – including local communities and indigenous peoples – are often at stake in investment disputes, particularly in … Land acquisitions and rights …
News, 22 July 2019