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Biodiversity convention's 'access and benefit sharing' protocol must protect traditional knowledge
… the traditional knowledge of the Yanadi people in Andhra Pradesh is under threat from national forest and wildlife conservation laws that …
News, 19 October 2010
Woman digging a hole in the forest
Reimagining solutions to India’s water challenge: the art of governance
… principles have been developed through broad stakeholder engagement under the Global Commission on Adaptation to enable more effective …
Insight, 20 January 2021
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PLA 63: How wide are the ripples? From local participation to international organisational learning
… equitable and participatory development. This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 31 August 2011
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The watering down of participatory budgeting and people power in Porto Alegre, Brazil (PLA 58)
… and political sustainability of such initiatives are now taking place under the banner of an emerging campaign called Popular Sovereignty. …
Publication, 01 June 2008
A dish of amatehe
Protecting indigenous foods, preserving biodiversity – the solutions are in nature
… change. Evidence provides answers An IIED-Hivos study carried out under the Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) programme  calls on local …
Insight, 22 May 2020
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Contesting Inequality in Access to Forests: Zimbabwe country study.
… of contradictory regulations. The state’s control of forestry is now under challenge from alliances in the private sector and civil society. …
Publication, 01 January 1998
Seydou Kassojue, 47, has a garden plot where he grows lettuce close to the Sélingué dam in Mali. The Global Water Initiative has been working with smallholders in the area since 2009 to find out how the dam affects the livelihoods of local farmers and what improvements could be made (Photo: Mike Goldwater/GWI)
Can dams work for local communities alongside national good?
… will also be available for comment on some of the wider issues under discussion at this year's World Water Week, the them of which is ' …
News, 18 August 2015
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Participatory quota setting (PLA 55)
… Nature (WWF) Wildlife Management Series. The toolbox was developed under WWF’s Support to CAMPFIRE (SupCamp) project in Zimbabwe (see …
Publication, 01 December 2006
The devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban City (Image: Gerald Paragas and Amillah Rodil)
New film tracks city's recovery from deadly typhoon
… recently issued a call for proposals for the third round of funding under the project. Researchers have until 21 July, 2016 to submit …
News, 07 July 2016
People sit around a desk and talk into microphones
What makes a sustainable diet? And who decides? Make Change Happen podcast episode 5
… for government to engage with informal markets.  Feeding the world (under the radar) Guarin characterises the ‘informal market’ as based …
Article, 05 May 2020