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Recovering wildlife populations in Namibia are largely attributed to policies that give local people rights to benefit from wildlife on their land (Photo: Ronald Woan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
There’s justice in the battle for biodiversity 
… poorest countries and people, whose livelihoods often rely on natural resources or foraging. In India, ecosystem services accounted for 16% of … GDP of the poor. Women have little decision-making power over natural resources in many countries. Yet much analysis shows that giving women agency over land and natural resources can create the crucial momentum for local development and wise …
Insight, 28 June 2018
A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber
China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?
… surge – sometimes linked to deals in which China secures natural resources – will morph into the world’s biggest sustainable development … Building infrastructure creates huge emissions and sucks up overseas resources, while conveniently venting the excess capacity of a slowing … basis of benefits to local livelihoods and sustainable use of forest resources . The true intent of these companies – large and small – will …
Insight, 19 June 2019
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The role of community-based natural resource management in climate change adaptation in Ethiopia: Assessing participatory initiatives with pastoral communities
Publication, 01 July 2013
Woman wearing traditional dress walking through a field where food is growning in The Gambia.
A storm overhead and a leaky bucket: reflections from the Spring Meetings
Insight, 07 May 2025
Man walking alongside a main road going through a small town in Uganda.
Measuring small towns – why definitions matter?
… crisis while playing a growing role in managing local natural resources. The definitions used to classify settlements are critical in determining the allocation of resources. To fulfil their functions, urban centres need financial resources and technical capacity. This is especially important for small …
Insight, 27 November 2024
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Decentralised Natural Resource Management in the Sahel: Overview and analysis
Publication, 01 January 1999
Local villagers receive wildlife training in the Mbarang'andu Wildlife Management Area in Tanzania, which incorporates seven villages. (Photo: WWF/USAID Biodiversity & Forestry, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Communities, livelihoods and sustainable wildlife management
… channel . [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCDKISg8FM] Related resources Publications Wild life, wild livelihoods: involving … Roe (eds.) (2011), Symposium report Community management of natural resources in Africa: Impacts, experiences and future directions , Dilys … Sandbrook (eds.) (2009), IIED Issue paper | en français Additional resources Blog:  There’s justice in the battle for biodiversity , by …
Article, 14 November 2018
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An 'agenda for change': Quantifying climate change impacts on natural resource-based economies
Publication, 01 October 2006
A group of women farmers, with their backs to the camera, bend over to plant on a sandy field.
Where to find IIED and partners at COP17: event listing
Event, 19 October 2026
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Political Ecologies of Scale: The multi-tiered co-management of Zimbabwean wildlife resources
… benefits, participation, empowerment and responsibility for economic resources seem only to be able to reach the bottom if the top agrees. … of Scale: The multi-tiered co-management of Zimbabwean wildlife resources …
Publication, 01 January 1996