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LDCs can use the example of Brazil, which has achieved a drastic fall in emissions thanks to avoided deforestation, to see what is possible despite limited economic capacity. Pictured is deforestation for the use of clay in Rio de Janeiro (Photo via Wikipedia Commons)
Climate action: Diplomats' discussions yield four themes for 2014
Insight, 04 June 2014
Rows of small dishes containing various types of vegetable seeds, including beans and grains
Madagascar needs agroforestry businesses in its response to climate change
Insight, 27 September 2019
The chairman of the Mpungu Authorised Resource User Group, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, who was involved in the development of the 'Multiple Use' programme (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Built on collaboration: how conservation research can benefit local people
… programmes for local communities, for example providing support for sustainable agriculture, as well as projects focused specifically on the links … showed that local people highlighted the shortcomings of this approach, notably the small harvest quotas, the limited number of …
Insight, 27 March 2015
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107 7 How will West African countries meet the MDGs?
Publication, 01 January 1970
The rich landscape of the Wolayita region in Southern Ethiopia highlights the country's huge potential (Photo: Rod Waddington, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Why parliament should scrutinise the UK-Ethiopia BIT
… a wide range of situations. And unlike the commission's suggested approach for TTIP, the UK-Ethiopia BIT does not contain provisions … Cotula ( [email protected] ) is principal researcher, Law and Sustainable Development; team leader - Legal Tools, Natural Resources … Foreign investment, law and sustainable development: A handbook on agriculture and extractive industries , Lorenzo Cotula (2013), IIED …
Insight, 19 January 2015
Climate fight must enlist biodiversity and communities
… (18 February) by the International Institute for Environment and Development. It warns that many efforts to mitigate climate change have … more joined up thinking to ensure that the aims of the UN Millennium Development Goals, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN …
News, 18 February 2008
En route to San José, Costa Rica. Credit: cicsc1970
Nature has values, and markets can be governed
… being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. In Western Uganda a similar approach is being tested to promote habitat conservation for chimpanzees … farmers who maintain hedgerows and buffer strips, or practise organic agriculture. In Kenya, negotiations underway for a scheme to reward … current economy, the odds of this being an ethically-guided approach are slim if left unregulated, as it becomes difficult to …
Insight, 10 August 2012
Global forest plan could boost fight against poverty and climate change
News, 09 July 2008
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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  … Rachel Olson, Steven DeRoy, and Kieran Broderick A participatory approach to monitoring slum conditions: an example from Ethiopia  Tsion … of the Pacific Community - EU/SPC Development of Sustainable Agriculture in the Pacific (DSAP) project Multilingual CD-ROM …
Article, 31 March 2006
Biocultural products of the Potato Park in Peru, an example of the goods and services that can be produced by indigenous peoples to provide income and enhance incentives to sustain biocultural heritage (Photo: ANDES)
Consultation: designing a new biocultural heritage indication
… peoples around the world.  We want to find a culturally appropriate approach to marketing that harnesses goodwill towards indigenous peoples … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 20 August 2015