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Workshop participants displayed and exchanged seeds from different parts of the world (Image: Yiching Song/Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy)
New film shows Chinese mountain communities protecting biocultural heritage
News, 14 March 2017
Manantali dam in Mali (Photo: OMVS/SOGEM via Google license)
Dams in Africa: Combining national and local development
… ([email protected]) is a principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group and leads the West Africa programme of the Global Water …
Insight, 09 December 2014
Cover for G04135.pdf
Local economic development through ‘pro-poor’ gorilla tourism in Uganda: Research framework
Publication, 01 March 2017
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The baby and the bathwater: trophy hunting, conservation and rural livelihoods
Publication, 01 March 2017
Cover for X00174.pdf
First line of defence: engaging communities in tackling wildlife crime
Publication, 01 March 2017
Members of Namibia's Marinefluss Conservancy hope their remote community will benefit from joint ventures with tourist enterprises (Photo: Steve Felton, WWF via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD
Insight, 20 November 2018
Cover for 21616IIED.pdf
Food systems governance and the environmental agenda
… biodiversity loss and pollution. The food sector uses more natural resources than any other sector, which means that the way in which food systems are governed has direct consequences for how natural resources are managed — and for environmental sustainability. Governance …
Publication, 13 September 2023
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Sustainable food systems multi-stakeholder mechanisms: contributions to the environmental agenda
… biodiversity loss and pollution. The food sector uses more natural resources than any other sector, which means that the way in which food systems are governed has direct consequences for how natural resources are managed — and for environmental sustainability. Governance …
Publication, 13 September 2023
The Roșia Poieni copper mine in Romania, one of the largest copper reserves in Europe (Photo: Cristian Bortes via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Investor-state arbitration: Lessons from civil society advocacy
… are taking action to change how investments in natural resources are made – to protect the rights of citizens and to protect … Law (CIEL) , and Jason Brickhill, of South Africa ' s Legal Resources Centre (LRC) , shared lessons from their practical experience … agenda to ensure it meets their concerns and aspirations.  Useful resources CIEL recently published a civil society guide  on how to make …
Insight, 19 May 2014
A beekeeper in Guatemala finds an alternative source of income. Photo: Todd Post/Bread for the World Institute
Judging the effectiveness of alternative livelihoods projects
Project, 16 August 2013