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Lions on the move in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. While populations of lions have increased by 12% in four countries, including Botswana, studies show a 43% overall decline from 1993-2014 (Photo: Barrett, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
To save Africa's wildlife, conservation needs a radical shake-up
… and a host of other species ― is land. Wildlife is losing space to agriculture, infrastructure and urbanisation.  Wildlife is valuable both … from its ability to catch, store and distribute water. And the legal, sustainable trade in wildlife is worth $340 million a year to Southern …
Insight, 03 March 2018
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MDG Conference 2003 Conference Participants List
… HONDURAS* Mr. Roland Bunch Association of Consultants for a Sustainable, Ecological and People Centred Agriculture HONDURAS* Mr. Alfredo Stein Swedish International …
Publication, 01 January 2003
A pinch of salt from Namaacha
Insight, 17 December 2010
Rhinos in the Serengeti National Park. The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates that poachers killed at least 1,338 rhinos across Africa in 2015 (Photo: Nicholas Maxim, Creative Commons via Flickr)
New report: local people are crucial to combating illegal wildlife trade
… crisis have not been heard." said Rosie Cooney, chair of IUCN's Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi) . "This meeting … "There is a clear need to raise awareness of examples where sustainable use of wildlife benefits local communities and engages them … trade monitoring network , and the Network for Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa (NESDA-Cameroon) . It was funded by …
News, 03 August 2016
Drilling for oil in Mali.
IIED urges G8 to see transparency as critical step on road to accountability
… but as a critical step on the road to accountability and fair and sustainable development. Information alone is not enough. People need to … (EITI), the question remains of how to make transparency work for sustainable development . G8 leaders need to see transparency not as an … extraction projects,” says Wilson. “Ultimately it must promote sustainable development based on effective management of those …
News, 14 June 2013
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What maintains poverty? A study of factors affecting poverty in mountainous areas of Quang Ninh province, Vietnam
… reaching the poor in most assistance programmes. • The role of the Agriculture and Forestry Extension is weak. • The SFEs, a big land … enjoy a much more favourable share but fail to use land in a sustainable way, while a number of households have no access to forest …
Publication, 01 January 2004
A small brick building with two steps leading to a corrugated iron door houses a pit latrine.
The case for sewers
… water Sewers can be used to recycle wastewater for industry or agriculture, and Importantly, children are much more likely to use … to meet the sanitation needs of their growing populations. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require access to adequate and …
Insight, 19 November 2021
Cover for 15513IIED.pdf
Multilateral trade and investment context for biofuels, The
… develop appropriate trade and investment rules to support a fair and sustainable biofuels sector. …
Publication, 01 December 2007
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Participatory Research of Compost and Liquid Manure in Kenya
… while the second comprised farmers using a Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture (LEISA) approach. The study shows that with this approach, …
Publication, 01 January 1999
The Dolakha FSC-certified community forest user group speaking at the International Forest Connect workshop in Nepal in February 2013 (Photo: Leianne Rolington/IIED)
Focusing support for locally controlled forest enterprise
… is working to reduce poverty and deforestation by better linking sustainable, locally-controlled forest enterprises to each other, … to policy Forest Connect is co-managed by IIED, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Center for People and Forests . …
Article, 14 March 2014