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Five ways to bring benefits from large dams to local communities
… • Develop local production systems by ensuring access to land and resources in ways that are compatible with both national law and … with local stakeholders to enable fair and sustainable use of resources • Support local people’s access to the dam’s benefits by …
News, 23 November 2011
Women harvesting vegetables in Shanggula village, Guangxi province, China, can share lessons on sustainable farming with the rest of the world (Photo: Simon Lim)
Nurturing the shoots of China's sustainable agriculture
… e.g. through cooperatives or through CSA – opens up a whole range of resources and services to farmers. Policy on cooperatives needs to be … found evidence that sustainable farming can boost incomes.   More resources should be devoted to 'participatory research' (ie integrally …
Insight, 23 March 2016
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Soluciones basadas en la naturaleza para la adaptación al cambio climático
Publication, 01 September 2019
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MMSD Southern Africa - Multi-Stakeholder Workshop - Impacts of Mining and Mineral Processing on Water Resources in the Zambezi, Limpopo and Olifants Catchments
… Workshop - Impacts of Mining and Mineral Processing on Water Resources in the Zambezi, Limpopo and Olifants Catchments …
Publication, 01 September 2001
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MMSD Southern Africa - Multi-Stakeholder Workshop - Impacts of Mining and Mineral Processing on Water Resources in the Zambezi, Limpopo and Olifants Catchments
… Workshop - Impacts of Mining and Mineral Processing on Water Resources in the Zambezi, Limpopo and Olifants Catchments …
Publication, 01 September 2001
Clearing forest for a palm oil plantation in Borneo (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Commodity cycles, economic treaties and pressures on land rights
… researcher (law and sustainable development) in IIED's  Natural Resources Group .  This blog was originally posted on RightingFinance .  Resources Foreign investment, law and sustainable development: …
Insight, 25 May 2016
South Africa President Jacob Zuma speaks to China counterpart Xi Jinping at the FOCAC summit in Sandton, Johannesburg in 2015. China is increasingly influential in Africa (Photo: GCIS/GovernmentZA, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
CSR practices of Chinese businesses in the global South
… Weng  ( [email protected] )  is a researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . The discussion paper Chinese businesses in Africa: …
Insight, 31 March 2016
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Ecosystems, poverty alleviation and conditional transfers
Publication, 01 March 2018
This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
2014: the International Year of Family Farming
… governments to secure community rights over land and land based resources. Smallholder and family farms play a key role in urban as well … forest producers (2014) Blog: Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter , Duncan Macqueen (2014) Spreading the …
Article, 22 April 2014
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Nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation
Publication, 01 September 2019