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Inclusive urban solutions: city actors engaging with displaced communities
Publication, 15 April 2024
People sit around tables in animated and detailed discussions.
How Ekiti State is advancing transition-ready investment decision making
… from the Yoruba word for hill, is endowed with rich land, natural resources and beauty . Agriculture is the backbone of the economy. Cash …
Insight, 27 May 2025
Images of indigenous biocultural heritage territories are profiled in a new photofilm (Photo: IIED)
New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories
… backbone of local economies and are critical repositories of genetic resources for food and agriculture and climate adaptation.  The film …
News, 11 November 2014
A man waters seedlings at a nursery at the Rukinga Wildlife Sanctuary in Kenya managed by Wildlife Works Carbon.
Investment guide to ‘triple win’ from locally controlled forestry
… better asset protection and a higher sustainable income from forest resources in future." The guide looks in detail at how to encourage a …
News, 24 September 2012
The new OpenLandContracts.org database contains the details of publicly available investment contracts from around the world (Image: Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI))
Opening up land contracts
… a role that is in the public interest, especially where limited resources make government monitoring more difficult. Contract disclosure … momentum for more bottom-up decision making in investment processes. Resources OpenLandContracts – online repository of publicly available …
Insight, 20 October 2015
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Community Based Wildlife Management in West Africa: A regional review
… by both colonialism and the need to stem the exploitation of natural resources for commercial use. The report covers a range of projects from … good governance, and specific legislation on sustainable use of resources have gained ground. In addition, political changes due to … and political commitment in the area, but also inadequate financial resources, limited potential for tourism, and situations of conflict …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Pakistan's Sarhad Rural Support programme deals with constant uncertainty and disruptive events. Here goods are delivered to flood victims in Chitral (Photo: Gul Hamaad Farooqui, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What can Southern NGOs teach us about disruptive change?
… ( [email protected] ) is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . Halina Ward ( [email protected])  is an …
Insight, 26 January 2016
Maasai men herding cattle
VITAL Climate Collective: connecting demand for climate adaptation needs with supply of climate finance
… management. Business cases will document net revenues, available resources and value chains, existing enabling policy structures and …
Project, 01 July 2024
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Managing Land Tenure and Resource Access in West Africa: Proceedings of a regional workshop held at Goree, Senegal, November 18-22 1996
Publication, 01 January 1997
An excerpt from the Challenging the constitutionality of adverse laws: Success stories from Indonesia webinar
Striking down adverse investment laws: success stories from Indonesia
… organisations (CSOs) are taking action to make investments in natural resources fairer and more sustainable in order to protect the rights of … overturned so that laws shaping investments in the natural resources are more likely to promote and protect rights of rural … represent. It also helps to create a pool of expertise and financial resources, which in turn can help bring success in challenging adverse …
Insight, 25 March 2014