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COP16: United Nations climate change negotiations
… Chandani, J. Timmons Roberts, Saleemul Huq Beyond forestry: why agriculture is key to the success of REDD+ ,  Maryanne Grieg-Gran Look …
Event, 01 January 2015
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Affirming Life and Diversity: Rural images and voices on food sovereignty in South India
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 April 2008
Exploring fair trade timber
… trade has done much to help community enterprises – but mainly in agriculture, not forestry. It is now time to examine the demand and … (or the lack of it) and developing options to distinguish and promote sustainable and fair community forest products in the market. What IIED …
Project, 11 June 2008
Fairtrade and formalisation for small-scale miners
… Sustainable markets …
Insight, 18 February 2011
Men sitting on railway tracks with roosters. Sucat Railway Community, Manila, Philippines.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
… security, and ensuring that environment lies at the heart of all sustainable development strategies. We aim to show how best to include … must reform their domestic and international policies related to agriculture, trade, and sustainable development; enhance the effectiveness of their aid …
Project, 30 April 2008
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
… director of Fundación Alternativas, a Bolivian NGO that works on sustainable approaches for food security. The team there works through food policy, education, and through urban agriculture – supporting citizens to create neighbourhood gardens. MT … made a difference and had an impact – no matter how big or small – in sustainable development? We want to hear your suggestions so we can …
Article, 15 June 2020
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PLA 54: Mapping for change: practice, technologies and communication
… by Peter Poole Issue-based case studies PGIS as a sustained (and sustainable?) practice: First Nation Experiences in Treaty 8 BC, Canada  … (ITC) Secretariat of the Pacific Community - EU/SPC Development of Sustainable Agriculture in the Pacific (DSAP) project Multilingual CD-ROM …
Article, 31 March 2006
More than 100 representatives of indigenous mountain communities met in Peru's Potato Park in April 2017 to share their expertise and build their international network (Photo: Lucia Flórez Zelaya)
Mountain indigenous peoples call for support for biocultural landscapes to achieve the SDGs
… indigenous peoples and biocultural landscapes for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the Aichi Targets." Mountain … Food and agriculture …
News, 28 June 2017
Urban-rural linkages have been 'beefed up' in the latest draft of the UN's Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals
OWG 'zero draft' is a huge step forward: now let's get practical
… beefed up by the addition of targets on trade-distorting subsidies, sustainable and resilient food systems, market stability, conduct of … elements would include integrated local, national and regional sustainable development strategies, and associated institutions and … of natural resources, including forests and marine resources , and agriculture and food systems Gender equality Access to energy for not …
Insight, 20 June 2014
Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
RIP Cecil the lion – what will be his legacy? And who should decide?
… to conservation. Communities retain 100 per cent of benefits from sustainable use of wildlife, including tourism, live sales and … has largely gone along with its habitat  –  back to the degraded agriculture landscapes from before the 1970s when wildlife use … Economic and Social Policy(CEESP)/Species Survival Commission (SSC) Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group. T hese views do not …
Insight, 31 July 2015