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An excerpt from the Challenging the constitutionality of adverse laws: Success stories from Indonesia webinar
Striking down adverse investment laws: success stories from Indonesia
… natural resources fairer and more sustainable in order to protect the rights of citizens and the environment. IIED's Legal Tools for Citizen … about his experiences. Mina discussed the work  of the Indonesia Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of the Archipelagos (AMAN), an alliance that … Land acquisitions and rights …
Insight, 25 March 2014
Lake Bogoria is home to one of the world's largest populations of Flamingos. It has been a protected reserve since 1973. The lake area was the traditional home of the Endorois people, who were forced to leave the area in the 1970s (Photo: Geoffroy Mauvais/IUCN)
It's time to end conservation injustice
… community took its case to the African Commission on Human People's Rights, which found the Kenyan government guilty of violating the … them from their lands. The landmark ruling set a precedent that indigenous peoples in Africa are legally entitled to collective ownership of their …
Insight, 17 November 2014
Sorting apricots in Tajikistan. The diverse and extreme climatic conditions of Central Asia helped farmers develop fruit varieties adaptable to drought and other environmental stresses (Photo: UNDP, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The Paris Agreement – a framework for local inclusion
… science and, as appropriate, traditional knowledge, knowledge of indigenous peoples and local knowledge systems". Vulnerable communities – whether … what adaptation actions are needed , but lack the resources, power or rights to implement them. Such communities can also play a key role in … Natural resource management …
Insight, 05 February 2016
Forested hills in Nepal, with a house in the foreground and forested hills, and then clouds behind.
Report calls for REDD+ to Invest in Forest Communities
News, 16 May 2012
Discussing free, prior and informed consent in REDD+
Free, prior and informed consent in REDD+: going beyond the right to say ‘no’
… taken as part and parcel of decision-making on conservation, natural resources management, and development processes at a local … by civil society. FPIC is fundamental to giving local communities, indigenous groups and other marginalized people, an opportunity to make … it might affect them. The underlying assumption is that they do hold rights over the resources on which decisions are to be made. The …
Insight, 27 July 2012
People sat around a table looking at a poster.
Q&A: Communities combating illegal wildlife trade in East Africa
… more than 120 representatives from wildlife conservation and management authorities, and non-governmental and community-based … in order to foster co-existence. Local communities also hold vital Indigenous knowledge relating to wildlife management and can provide … strengthening ties with communities. The initiative identifies the rights of local communities in wildlife management and strengthens their …
Article, 17 December 2020
A group of people standing outside
Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
Article, 14 June 2021
Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)
IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
… opportunity to share the experiences of existing networks involving Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and the importance of community to … 3 September This Knowledge Café session explored the development of a rights-based certification tool to address concerns related to the loss …
Event, 01 September 2016
The Potato Park’s Craft micro-enterprise group. Biocultural heritage indicators that are a guarantee of origin and authenticity have increased incomes and improved social cohesion at the Potato Park (Photo: Asociacion ANDES (Peru))
Designing a biocultural heritage labelling system: survey results
… We know from our research that indigenous peoples play a key role in conserving both the traditional knowledge and … can also be used, providing protection for intellectual property rights and allowing producers to take legal action for unauthorised use …
Insight, 16 January 2017
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Roadmap for strengthening forest and farm producer organisations - policy brief
… unleash the economic power and entrepreneurial potential of indigenous peoples, communities and smallholders at scales that transform … “voice” of small-scale forest and farm producers to secure tenure and rights to natural resources on which their enterprises are based. But …
Publication, 01 July 2014