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Costa Rica's Peñas Blancas Reservoir is the focus of work involving payments for ecosystem services (Photo: Dr Ina Porras)
Payments for ecosystem services: We can't leave people out of the equation
… risks and we must ensure schemes do not compromise local livelihoods under the banner of protecting the environment. Managing ecosystems goes …
Insight, 28 March 2014
A Raika man leading his sheep and goats to graze in the contested Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary.
How communities are protecting their biocultural resources with community protocols
… genetic diversity and forest and rangeland ecosystems and rights under national and international laws and policies. The Raika have used … many tools in the arsenal required by the Raika to claim their rights under the Indian Forest Rights Act. In Ulu Papar, a remote area of Sabah …
Insight, 02 October 2012
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Environment & Urbanization local organisation profiles
… read more and download the papers at no charge. The papers are listed under four headings: Grassroots organisations Local NGOs Local … local projects and new employment opportunities. The urban poor under threat and in struggle: options for urban development in Zimbabwe, …
Project, 18 August 2014
About 1.5 million Syrians are currently in Lebanon. The influx has added complexity to an already fragile system of water provision (Photo: Loan Diep)
Water in MENA: ripple effects in times of conflict
Insight, 12 December 2017
Left: Women and schoolgirls discuss the benefits of harvesting rainwater (Credit: ISET). Right: A girl collects water from the rainwater storage tank (Credit: Fawad Khan)
Climate adaptation and good development: two sides of the same coin
… from communities where climate-relevant development projects are under way to that from communities without the development intervention …
Insight, 18 March 2014
Mozambique: bringing the cattle in from the fields. Mozambique is vulnerable to climate change because of its geography, but also has a poorly developed economy, frail infrastructure, and high levels of poverty (Photo: ILRI/Stevie Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate finance from the aid budget must also deliver on poverty
Insight, 30 September 2015
Rich nations failing to keep Copenhagen promise to help poor nations adapt to climate-change
News, 16 November 2010
A new publication will profile the success of locally controlled forestry business models (Image: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Local control of forestry could significantly slow man-made forest loss
… even stronger. Sweden for example maintains 50 per cent of its forest under local control (by cooperative businesses) and has among the …
News, 04 September 2015
The CBD COP13 logo. IIED and partners will be at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December
IIED at the biodiversity COP in Cancun
… and tourism sectors. Governing bodies for the two protocols, agreed under the convention, were held alongside COP13: the Cartagena Protocol …
Event, 04 December 2016
South Africans celebrate 'Vuvuzela Day': the World Forestry Congress in Durban will discuss critical forestry issues (Photo: Dundas Football Club, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Time to dust off the vuvuzelas
Insight, 04 September 2015