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Protecting the world's oceans: three key tasks
… help encourage the sustainable management of marine and coastal resources. Recently IIED and partners completed a study of  Bangladesh's … want to see this process roll forward with a view to establishing the resources of the open oceans as a kind of common heritage for humanity." …
News, 08 June 2016
REDD+ in Mozambique: new opportunity for land grabbers?
… acquiring large tracts of land and searching for other natural resources, in particular water and minerals. A land grab is on in my own … Hopes dashed for Mozambique Having worked on community-based natural resources management for many years, I always felt that there was a … need to compensate for the resulting benefits of maintaining those resources sustainably, such as carbon stocks, watershed maintenance, …
Insight, 15 September 2011
An image of a man faking injury being treated by a Bangladesh firefighter as part of a training exercise on collaborative search and rescue operations, helping the city to respond more effectively to disasters (Photo: Oregon National Guard, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Making the SDG agenda work for LDCs
Article, 25 May 2016
Cover for G00061.pdf
Climate Change And Development Consultation On Key Researchable Issues Section 6: West Africa Region Section 6.1. West Africa Scoping Study
… security and climate change. 8 3.2 Impacts of climate change on water resources. 10 3. 3 Impacts of climate change on forestry resources. 12 3.4 Impact of climate change on coastal areas. 12 3.5 … OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 14 4.1 Adapting to the impacts of declining water resources. 14 4.2 Adapting to declining agricultural productivity. 15 ... …
Publication, 20 May 2005
Ol Pejeta Conservancy in northern Kenya is home to four of the seven northern white rhino left in the world. The park is using SAPA as part of its community programme (Photo: Guy Lemal)
Piloting Social Assessment of Protected Areas: some initial reflections
… as well as the negative impacts (costs) such as reduced access to resources and crop damage by wildlife. SAPA is a relatively simple, … picture of social impacts is clearly negative. Restricted access to resources is an important concern but the social impact issue seems to … ( [email protected] ) is a senior researcher within IIED's Natural Resources Group . SAPA is funded by the UK Government’s Darwin …
Insight, 23 September 2014
Cover for 10792IIED.pdf
Mainstreaming gender in climate change adaptation: a case study from Cirebon, Indonesia
… education and literacy, livelihoods, access to and control over resources, health, mobility, status in female-headed households, and …
Publication, 01 June 2016
Schemes such as this provision of a solar panel, provided by Grameen Shaktri, to rural Bangladesh homes are tackling the drivers of poverty and inequality while also greening the economy (Photo: Marufish)
Ten ways to secure social justice in the green economy
… on people living in poverty and their dependence on natural resources. The ten recommendations draw on a review by IIED and CAFOD of … designed without social concern, can push people who depend on these resources further into poverty.  "It would be dangerous to assume that …
News, 25 April 2014
Cover for 17186IIED.pdf
Stronger forest and farm producers’ groups can help deepen Myanmar democracy
… products. Community Forest User Groups are emerging to~manage these resources, albeit at a pace below the government’s Forest Master Plan …
Publication, 01 December 2013
Bhutan has committed to remain carbon neutral, mainly thanks to its high forest carbon sequestration capacity. Some people say that trees in Bhutan have legal rights, referring to the constitutional mandate for 60% of our land area to remain forested for all time. (Adam Brill, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Negotiating transparency for the Paris deal: next stop, Bangkok
Insight, 28 August 2018
Cover for G02362.pdf
Rethinking conservation through the lens of food sovereignty (Workshop report, World Conservation Congress, Oct. 2008)
… is the right to food, including rights of access to productive resources needed for food production and provisioning. Many initiatives to conserve natural resources and biodiversity rich ecosystems in which food systems are …
Publication, 01 October 2008