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Remote but productive: Using energy access investments to catalyse enterprises and income in Tanzania’s rural communities
… overcome barriers such as gaps in local people’s skills or financial resources. In Tanzania there are huge opportunities for ambitious energy …
Publication, 01 December 2016
Workers in a tea plantation. (Photo: Anil Wadghule, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How to support small-scale farmers in negotiations with agribusiness
Event, 16 April 2018
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Biocultural community protocols: tools for securing the assets of livestock keepers (PLA 65)
… the visibility of the role of livestock keepers in conserving genetic resources, addressing problems of access to grazing land and conserving …
Publication, 01 June 2012
New website shows how nature plus culture equals resilience
… a senior researcher at IIED. “It includes a wealth of biological resources and long standing traditions and practices that allow people … Policies and laws on traditional knowledge and access to genetic resources tend to protect only the intellectual part of TK systems. For … peoples, though, knowledge cannot be separated from the biological resources, landscapes, cultural values and customary laws that ensure …
News, 18 May 2011
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Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment: A guide to the laws governing land and investment in Tanzania
… Recognising the potential of natural resources, the Tanzanian government has recently prioritised the … the local communities whose livelihoods depend on land and natural resources are under threat. Tanzanian legislation recognises important …
Publication, 01 January 2013
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Putting pastoralists on the policy agenda: Land alienation in southern Ethiopia
Publication, 01 July 2010
Aerial view of destroyed housing and infrastructure.
Resilient prosperity in SIDS: forging a new finance compact
Insight, 29 August 2023
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Targeting in Urban Displacement context
… based on their needs and vulnerability. It is a way to focus scarce resources on those within the population that would most benefit from …
Publication, 01 June 2017
Animation: Promoting accountability in agricultural investment chains (Image: HandsUp/IIED)
IIED animation to help communities protect legal rights
… ( [email protected] , team leader, legal tools, IIED's  Natural Resources Group Emily Polack ( [email protected] , senior researcher, Natural Resources Group Philippine Sutz ([email protected]), senior researcher,  Natural Resources Group …
News, 19 May 2015
Weighing sacks of coffee beans in Colombia's southwestern Cauca department (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT)
Environmental Funds: sustainable finance for conservation
… setting up, investing and managing its funds to provide long-term resources. And rather than running projects, it invited other … been able to adapt to the organisations' needs and there have been resources to finance the activities. Review and record So what can be … published Review of Conservation Trust Funds for Sustainable Marine Resources Management . It's an illustrative and insightful paper about …
Insight, 23 July 2014