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Frontline Funds Accelerator: catalysing climate investment to the grassroots
Project, 01 July 2021
A green mangrove forest on the edge of a lake, with the roots of the mangroves exposed
Nature-based solutions: building blocks for green recovery and climate action in least developed countries
Insight, 31 August 2021
Woman cutting weeds in forest.
What’s needed to halt threats to rural land rights in Cameroon
News, 09 September 2020
Local community in Guinea attending to field.
Recognising and protecting family farming in Guinea: a successful advocacy journey
Insight, 09 September 2024
Fishermen collecting the day's catch (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)
Governing half of the planet for all the world's people – new rules for the high seas must include needs of poorest countries
… all countries, not just the wealthy few, can benefit from the ocean's resources. IIED is calling for the creation of a fund into which … the high seas as a source for medicines, science and other genetic resources.  "It is also important that the new governing mechanism for … excessive amount of fish for the bioprospecting of marine genetic resources. Any extraction of fish from the high seas, including for …
News, 10 July 2017
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2021 Barbara Ward Lecture: Rebeca Grynspan says nothing is ever so small that it cannot make a difference
… a country of small farmers, rich in biodiversity but poor in other resources, become a climate leader for the world?’ Volcán Arenal … she said. And even though it didn’t happen immediately, because the resources to do it were not in place, it provided a target to work … the army was the person who had won the civil war. He put those resources to better use for the people”. And in 1970 when the country …
Article, 16 December 2021
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India’s Mahatma Gandhi Guaranteed Employment programme
… 2017). It also provides improved productive assets and livelihood resources in rural areas, proactively ensuring social inclusion and … of social and environmental objectives to achieve political support, resources and scale. At the same time, PES experiences elsewhere can …
Publication, 01 March 2018
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'Land grabbing' and international investment law: toward a global reconfiguration of property?
… investment law and commercial pressures on the world’s natural resources. It argues that changes in legal frameworks are redefining control over natural resources, and facilitating transitions toward more commercialised land relations. As pressures on resources increase, many national laws undermine the rights of people …
Publication, 01 October 2016
Woman stallholder selling bananas hands a bag to a man.
Incentives for an inclusive green economy
… a novel approach to finance biodiversity conservation that mobilises resources to people living and working closest to biodiversity, and …
Article, 06 September 2022
A man in traditional robes bending to inspect crops in a large field of green vegetation
COP29 must deliver bold commitments to limit catastrophic climate impacts
… agree on developing a portfolio for deploying renewable energy resources and solar energy systems, to ensure they are not centralised …
Insight, 11 November 2024