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Cover for 16561IIED.pdf
Energy and minerals in Greenland: Governance, corporate responsibility and social resilience
Publication, 01 June 2015
Cover for G00130.pdf
Land in Africa: Market Asset or Secure Livelihood
… Prof Ben Cousins, PLAAS, UWC, South Africa 1. Agriculture and natural resources are centrally important to NEPAD and other initiatives to … in rural areas in most African countries. Agriculture and natural resources are clearly not the sole answer, given processes of … reduction policies. 2. Given the key role of agriculture and natural resources, land rights and land reform are critical. Secure land rights …
Publication, 01 November 2004
Cover for 14619IIED.pdf
Virtuous Circles: Values, Systems, Sustainability
… without consuming large quantities of fossil fuels and other finite resources. In the process, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental …
Publication, 01 August 2012
UNESCO considers Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area to be of global importance for biodiversity conservation, but it faces significant development pressure from tourism (Photo: Justin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mainstreaming nature and biodiversity into wider planning and policy
… poverty – for example, if poor peoples’ access to essential natural resources is curtailed by setting up protected areas, which they are … Services (WAVES) initiative to communicate the value of natural resources and ecosystem services through natural capital accounting . … offsets and develop guidance to mitigate these. Additional resources Biodiversity mainstreaming in Global Environment Facility …
Article, 16 August 2013
Cover for 12587IIED.pdf
Foreign investment, law and sustainable development: A handbook on agriculture and extractive industries
… and extractive industries increase pressures on land and natural resources, the effective use of legal tools, by government and advocates …
Publication, 01 February 2016
New directions for integrating environment and development in East Africa
… national agendas for food security, restoration of degraded natural resources, and poverty reduction. They propose ways to build on and …
News, 16 March 2009
Cover for G04354.pdf
From Count-ability to Accountability: An Overview
… we are through trade, global supply chains, transboundary freshwater resources, monetary policies, foreign direct investment and illegal …
Publication, 01 May 2015
Book cover of 'Reducing urban poverty in the global south'
Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South
Publication, 01 August 2013
Cover for 9505IIED.pdf
From colonisation to consultation: Regulating use of a pastoral zone in Samorogouan, Burkina Faso
… Are natural resources in the Sahel under threat? There is widespread concern that … practices, conflict and competition jeopardise the future of natural resources. But this case study shows how growing awareness of pressure … drove local actors to take steps to regulate access and use of these resources. …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)
It's time for revolution in forest business
… of association". The old system of 'investment capital-seeking forest resources and requiring local labour' cannot work in a … world. It must be replaced by 'local rights-holders managing forest resources and seeking capital'. In other words, cheap labourers become … ([email protected]), is principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . This post first appeared on the Kepa website . Kepa is …
Insight, 17 November 2014