Items tagged:
Alternative livelihoods
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Escalating local climate resilience finance
A new IIED report offers 30 practical options to help local people build vital resilience into their livelihoods, landscapes and food systems and calls for an urgent increase in climate finance to and through local organisations
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New decision support tool launched for wild meat alternatives project development
IIED and partners have released a tool, available in multiple languages, to support practitioners to find sustainable alternatives to wild meat that work for rural people
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Why eat wild meat? Insights from Africa and lessons for COVID-19 responses
This IIED Debates on Wednesday, 4 August explored why people eat wild meat and how to design interventions that can help improve sustainability and safety
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Exploring why people eat wild meat – and designing better alternatives
New research from Cameroon investigating drivers for wild meat consumption will help find sustainable alternatives that work for rural people
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Wild meat: is there an appetite for alternatives?
The age-old tradition of hunting wild meat has, in many cases, become unsustainable. Efforts to change local habits have had little effect. Ahead of this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity, guest blogger Stephanie Brittain argues that to protect biodiversity, without compromising health and livelihoods, we need to understand much more about why people eat wild meat
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Why eat wild meat?
There is growing concern that hunting for wild meat consumption is unsustainable and threatening biodiversity conservation and food security across sub-Saharan Africa. But for initiatives that promote alternatives to succeed, they must be based in a strong understanding of why people eat wild meat
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Are "alternative livelihoods" projects effective?
Considerable sums have been spent on projects designed to provide people with alternative ways to make a living in and around protected or biodiverse areas. But do such projects work?
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Judging the effectiveness of alternative livelihoods projects
Do alternative livelihoods projects work to protect, maintain or even improve biodiversity? What has worked, what hasn’t worked and why? This project aims to answer some of those questions by analysing the evidence.
