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A young person holds up a sign, saying "There is no planet B" among a march
IIED at 50: how can we harness youth’s energy to drive positive change?
Article, 22 June 2022
Director Camilla Toulmin sets out IIED's strategy for 2014 to 2019
IIED director offers a strategic view
… partners on each of four research themes: climate change, natural resources, human settlements and sustainable markets.   She speaks in …
News, 02 April 2014
Eight development experts, including Oxfam GB's Irene Guijt, were interviewed about reimagining development for the Least Developed Countries (Image: IIED)
How are the LDCs defining a new sustainable development agenda?
News, 08 July 2016
Local farm foresters near Kumasi, Ghana. Evidence suggests that locally controlled forests are generally better for the forest and people than either protected areas or large-scale industrial business models (Photo: WWF)
Investing in locally controlled forestry – a planetary-scale solution for forests and people
… Industrialists worry that they will impede access to valuable natural resources. Authorities worry that these people are too uneducated to … is a principal researcher in the forest team within IIED's Natural Resources research group . This blog was originally posted by WWF . …
Insight, 07 September 2016
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Water markets in Mexico: opportunities and constraints
… Mexico initiated a new national water law which decentralised water resources management and allowed the market transfer of water-use … individual irrigators. These reforms were expected to improve water resources management through greater user participation in irrigation …
Publication, 01 January 1997
Mangrove reforestation project
Development and life in general under threat from accelerating destruction of nature – but solutions are possible
News, 06 May 2019
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Conflicts between farmers and herders in north-western Mali
… between farmers and herders in a context of pressure on natural resources and growing competition over their use in the regions of …
Publication, 01 October 2006
Women discuss forest management at a Community Forest User Group meeting in Nepal.
When pigs fly: Why is including women in managing forests still so unusual?
Insight, 24 September 2012
Pastoralism - Research, policy and practice, Vol 1 No 2
Publication, 01 July 2010
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Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Heritage - the Concept of Collective Bio-Cultural Heritage'
… Cultural Heritage, the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources and so on. Contrary to the worldview, needs and beliefs of … often driven by loss of rights to use, access and control~traditional resources and territories.~This paper suggests that a broader approach …
Publication, 01 January 2005