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Boat surrounded by vegetation growing in the water near the river port of Vallemi.
Will Payments for Watershed Services fuel the protection of ecosystem services?
… incentives for farmers and industries, lack of access to technology, knowledge of resources and investment capabilities. Traditional responses have included evictions and prohibitions that lay …
Insight, 21 June 2013
Major deposit in biodiversity bank to protect future of food
… potatoes that the farmers have maintained and from their associated traditional knowledge." Tom van der Lee, Advocacy & Campaigns Director Oxfam Novib, …
News, 22 February 2011
West African farmers heard at UK Houses of Parliament
… the practices of most peasant farmers” who are more likely to use traditional varieties which don’t require them (pg 16, Democratising … Research for Food Sovereignty in West Africa (PDF)). Such knowledge, developed through daily experience, could be built upon …
Insight, 04 February 2012
Community representatives gather together to record their knowledge about dryland resources as part of a participatory mapping process in Isiolo County, Kenya. (Photo: James Pattison/IIED)
Strengthening civil society to support natural resource management
… organisational leaders, and long-term core funding Much of the traditional investment in capacity development that African CSOs receive … be a key for African CSOs' access to funding, networks, and technical knowledge. However, these partnerships can also be problematic, with …
Insight, 29 July 2015
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
… to improve their relations with local people. It has also meant traditional harvesting practices can continue and has provided support … technical scientific arguments into clear, tangible and useful knowledge that supports evidence-based decision-making.  This is …
Insight, 27 March 2015
Slash and burn, pictured in the Mopeia district, Zambezia province, Mozambique, has a noble motive – feeding families - but it is not sustainable (Photo: Isilda Nhantumbo/IIED)
REDD+: missionaries, conservation fortresses and the politics of carbon landscapes in Africa
… authors that we have not learned enough or we have not fully used the knowledge we have gained in the past three or so decades. There is still … the agriculture and energy fronts. But we have to want to use past knowledge and experience. The book provides a fascinating and insightful … Their recommendations are clear: abandon carbon forestry and pursue traditional livelihood and integrated rural development approaches, …
Insight, 23 December 2015
Mr Yi, the manager of the processing facility, instructs some of the Mozambican workforce of Mr Forest Ltd (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
A Chinese passion: adding value to Mozambique's timber exports
… Mocimboa da Praia – home to the distinctive triangular sails of the traditional Dhows off shore. Home to Mr Forest Ltd's sawmill onshore. … the two governments which will soon be signed. The idea is to share knowledge, technical capacity and efforts to combat illegality. …
Insight, 10 April 2017
A line of Christmas trees. Photo: Brett Flanders (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Sustainable development requires an infusion of love
… breathtaking pace and invested in capacity development – including in traditional agricultural knowledge, understory crops and eco-tourism. It's not all perfect – but …
Insight, 20 December 2013
Countryside in Guangxi Autonomous Region, China. Photo: Duncan Macqueen
Strength in numbers: the promise of forest producer organisations
… pace. And it has invested in capacity development – including in traditional agricultural knowledge, understory crops and eco-tourism. There are hopes too that …
Insight, 28 November 2013
‘Act on nature’, demand hundreds of organisations, in unprecedented call to world leaders
… indigenous people have always depended on nature for survival through traditional knowledge practices, human and animals treatment.Today, Man's inhuman … to the destruction of habits, life styles, culture and Indigenous knowledge.We there seek for an improvement in indigenous youth …
News, 18 September 2020