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The Maize Park Biocultural Heritage Territory in Lares, Peru. Case study guidance on biocultural heritage territories
Publication, 01 February 2020
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Towards a political economy of the COVID-19 crisis: Reflections on an agenda for research and action
Publication, 04 February 2021
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Getting it Right: Linking concepts and action for improving the use of natural resources in Sahelian West Africa
… Right: Linking concepts and action for improving the use of natural resources in Sahelian West Africa …
Publication, 01 January 1993
Person squatting town in a field, looking at the soil.
More GEF nature finance must reach Indigenous Peoples and local communities
… governance arrangements and lack of clear criteria for allocating resources. In-depth research into GEF funding and IP and LCs To shed …
Insight, 19 May 2025
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams
… sustainability."   says Mahamane Dédéou Touré from the ECOWAS Water Resources Coordination Unit. In approving it, the region's governments … a shared and common approach to sustainable management of the water resources their populations rely on to survive. In the context of … deeper poverty or worse, sparking more conflict over land and natural resources. The risk of conflict is not restricted to national boundaries …
News, 16 December 2015
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Finding a green path for China and Africa?
Long read, 08 August 2018
Fishing boats return to a beach on the Bay of Bengal.
New Commission for oceans in crisis
… (by far the biggest living space on Earth), and offer a wealth of resources. Yet they are increasingly exploited, and largely unregulated. … for businesses, the environment, and for managing marine natural resources. But many exploitation technologies and environmental issues, … a yawning ‘ governance gap ’.   Failing fisheries The world’s fishery resources have certainly been depleted at an alarming rate, due to over …
Insight, 14 February 2013
An artisanal fisherman in rural Bangladesh
Buy me an ocean: why we need payments for coastal and marine environments
… coastal and marine ecosystems provide. Those in charge of coastal resources often do not consider the value of these benefits when making decisions about how these resources should be used. This is further exacerbated by long-pursued … in place effective incentive mechanisms, then our coastal and marine resources will continue to deteriorate and make the poor more vulnerable …
Insight, 07 June 2012
Communities adapting to climate change can learn from revolutionary conservation method
… to control and benefit from local wildlife, forests, water and other resources. They found that CBNRM methods could inform strategies for … notion that assumes that communities will manage their natural resources better, and in ways that also result in poverty reduction, if they are in control of those resources and derive direct economic benefits from them. This approach …
News, 03 May 2012
A canopy above the entrance to a mine. Written on the canopy is 'Bienvenidos a Marmato" - welcome to Marmato
Mining reforms have left Colombia’s artisanal miners behind
… development and illegitimately control their relationship to land and resources. As the government heavily subsidises international mining …
Insight, 15 April 2020