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Lushoto, Tanzania: Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into agroforestry. Here a tree nursery group discusses the challenges and opportunities (Photo: P Kimeli/CCAFS)
Look beyond the trees: the SDGs will have to do more than just 'protect forests'
Insight, 04 November 2014
Why markets matter
… publications (including co-ordinating a rigorous peer review process) under the Shaping Sustainable Markets Series. Visit the shaping …
Insight, 19 March 2012
Report shows how secret land deals can fail to benefit African nations – and how to make them better
… is that their customary rights may have no or little recognition under national law. "Even in the better negotiated contracts, the gap …
News, 31 January 2011
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PLA 31: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
… organisations and in conflict situations? This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 01 February 1998
A family guards their crops from wild animals on the boundary of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Conservation works better with social justice
… but poor in financial resources to implement their commitments under the international biodiversity conventions. It is also partly …
Insight, 20 August 2014
Stands of giant bamboo, in what was once degraded cattle pasture, are ready to be loaded onto trucks (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)
Bamboozled by bamboo?
… not just lack of preferential legislation that drives business under. Tit-for-tat legislative trade barriers erected between Ecuador …
Insight, 09 December 2016
Less erosion, less warming
… to discuss the potential for mitigation in the agricultural sector under IIED’s work on the economics of climate change in the agricultural …
Insight, 11 November 2010
The front of a cinema, with posters advertising the film Avatar.
Was 'Avatar' good for Indigenous People?
… where broad swathes of Indigenous territory have progressively fallen under the control of foreign oil companies, many Waorani vacillate …
Insight, 04 November 2010
Bimbo Osobe and Samuel Akinrolabu, members of the Nigerian Slum/Informal Settlement Federation, lead a march of residents of Lagos waterfront communities threatened with eviction, to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode's office to demand open dialogue with the government on alternatives to evictions of the urban poor (Photo: Andrew Maki)
Is this too easy?
… informal settlements that I have met who constantly are ignored and under-appreciated with their citizenship unrecognised. People such as …
Insight, 26 October 2016
Studies reveal prospects for linking ape conservation with poverty reduction in Africa
… poorest households. "Integrated conservation and development has come under some criticism in recent years," says the report’s lead author Tom …
News, 18 August 2010