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Collective trademarks and biocultural heritage: towards new indications of distinction for indigenous peoples in the Potato Park, Peru
… and cultural diversity. Follow the links below for more about our work on Biocultural heritage. …
Publication, 01 March 2013
Miners from the Tanga region in northern Tanzania participating in discussions about how to make ASM in Tanzania more sustainable (Photo: Steve Aanu)
Mining dialogue paves the way for change
… could get loans using geological information and this has opened up our thoughts and possibilities for the future." … You can find out more about the Tanzania dialogue and IIED's ASM work: A round-up of the dialogue, as it happened A Flickr album of photos from the event An overview of IIED's ASM work in Tanzania …
News, 05 February 2018
D&C Days 2018: around 350 policymakers, researchers and development practitioners came together for discussions and debates focused on the interface between development and climate change (Photo: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
"Follow the science": Least Developed Countries Group lead negotiator
… we welcome the report but we all need to own it and make use of it in our day-to-day work,” Gebru Jember Endalew of Ethiopia told the closing panel at the …
News, 10 December 2018
The Enhancing Equity workshop in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park brought together government officials, local residents and conservationists (Photo: Alessandra Guiliani/IIED)
Enhancing equity and fairness
… government officials, to communities and to conservationists during our Enhancing Equity workshop at the Institute of Tropical Forest … because of conservation. But this is a difficult challenge, and our workshop brought together representatives from government, local … only fuels more resentment about the national park. "The gorillas are our oil.  If the gorillas come on our land we should be allowed to do …
Insight, 23 February 2015
A new map produced by IIED shows seven types of innovative governance. Click on the image to see the map (Image: IIED)
Driving change by supporting action at the local level
… development goals. A new interactive map uses examples from our work, and that of others, to show how effective action by locally-rooted … national and international partnerships and local knowledge, and Our experience – and that of our partners – tells us that wherever …
Insight, 24 November 2015
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Association ANDES: Conserving indigenous biocultural heritage
… and local organizations. Follow the links below for more about our work on Biocultural heritage. …
Publication, 01 August 2008
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Pastoral Civil Society Quarterly Newsletter of RECONCILE/IIED Programme on Reinforcement of Pastoral Civil Society in East Africa Issue No 13 January - March 2006
… the first publication of the year 2006, we would like to wish all our partners, collaborators and the general readership of the newsletter … for the first quarter of 2006, plans for the next quarter, news from our partners, upcoming events and other relevant news. We have also …
Publication, 01 March 2006
Vast quantities of logs being unloaded in the port of Zhangjiagang, South-East China. Estimates suggest timber imports travelling through Zhangjiagang increased by more than 60% in 2017 (Photo: Simon Lim/IIED)
Crucial agreement with China could save Mozambique’s forests
… signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in which they agreed to work together to stop forest destruction and enable Mozambicans to share … illegal logging The agreement also expects the two governments to work together to develop a bilateral verification system to combat illegal logging and sustainably manage forests. As our report shows, it is vital this includes developing a bar-coded, …
Insight, 14 August 2018
Major deposit in biodiversity bank to protect future of food
… protect an astonishing level of diversity within the fields. "Sending our potato collection to Svalbard is a way to have an insurance policy for our seeds," says Lino Mamani, the head of the ' Papa Arariwa ' (potato … national and international levels, the investment and costs of its work have never been supported by national and international policies, …
News, 22 February 2011
A tanker delivers water to residents in Retiro, a shanty town in Buenos Aires (Photo: Mark Edwards)
Urban water and sanitation
… provision has focused on private versus public provision, but our research suggests that both private and publicly operated utilities … have focused on urban sanitation and on equity issues. As part this work, we have been collaborating with affiliates of Shack/Slum Dwellers … with local authorities and utilities. Preliminary reflections on this work are listed in the publications below. …
Project, 01 September 2014