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A Subanen harvest dance during a colourful street dancing competition of Kinabayo Festival. Community action by the Subanen tribe in Midsalip prevents mining companies from encroaching their land (Photo: Mark Navales/Google Licence)
Citizen power: Sustaining paralegal programmes to put knowledge back into communities' hands
… by investors and governments in acquiring farmland and other natural resources is increasing pressures on land for millions of rural … or change the law to redress unbalanced powers. It needs resources, time, capacity and people's own 'agency' to claim and defend … Cesar "Cocoi" Rebuta, a consultant of the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC) in the Philippines, and Alda Salomão, from Centro …
Insight, 14 October 2014
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Part II. TOWARDS A CONTEXTUAL FRAMEWORK SHARING POWER Chapter1. MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES: A STRUGGLE BETWEEN POLITICS AND CULTURE
Publication, 01 January 1970
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People, Policy, Participation: Making Watershed Management work in India
… of a participatory approach that was expected to improve natural resources and alleviate poverty (by seeing how a well-drafted policy …
Publication, 01 January 2005
The landscape of the Santurbán páramo.
Unpacking regulatory chill: the case of mining in the Santurbán páramo in Colombia
Insight, 21 December 2020
A goal worth scoring: Lessons from winning football teams can improve the supply chains of commodities that drive deforestation. Credit: Cusia-Inc
Football’s winning ingredients can help forests in Kenya and Tanzania
… sourcing (avoiding deforestation and responsible use of natural resources) and stakeholder value (meeting the needs of producers and …
Insight, 20 March 2014
Cover of the report, Understanding barriers to women's participation in the UN climate negotiations
Understanding barriers to women’s participation in the UN climate negotiations: perspectives from the least developed countries
… their own environment. Our findings show that the lack of financial resources plays an outsized role in government involvement in the …
Publication, 11 February 2025
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Community Power, Participation, Conflict and Development Choice: Community wildlife conservation in the Okavangi Region of Northern Botswana
… a move from central government control of wildlife and other natural resources while providing concessions to allow communities living in, or adjacent to wildlife areas a greater role in management of these resources. Since that time, Wildlife Management Areas have been set up …
Publication, 01 January 2000
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Financement des interventions locales en matière de pauvreté, de climat et d’environnement
Publication, 01 June 2019
Green shoots and REDD herrings
Insight, 15 October 2009
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First line of defence? A review of evidence on the effectiveness of engaging communities to tackle illegal wildlife trade
Publication, 01 December 2016