Items tagged:
Livelihoods
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Chinese hydropower starting to adopt social and environmental safeguarding norms, but with limitations
China has a leading role in building large hydropower dams in developing nations, partly in the name of sustainable development. New research examines Chinese investments in the least developed countries – the practices of hydropower companies and their financiers, and what drives social and environmental safeguarding practices
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Life and livelihoods: the impact of COVID-19 on small-scale fishing communities
Small-scale fisheries are a vital source of employment, income and food for millions, especially in developing countries, but COVID-19 has affected the entire aquatic food system. On World Oceans Day, Cristina Pita looks at the drastic impact on the life and livelihoods for the poorest and most vulnerable
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Productive uses of energy to jumpstart livelihoods
Stimulating productive uses of energy is critical to catalyse income-generating activities and for the sustainability of energy systems, especially in rural communities
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A tale of two villages: community perspectives on the impact of Botswana’s trophy hunting ban
How does a trophy hunting ban affect people who live alongside wildlife? Helen Muller reports on her conversations with local people in Botswana
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Covering elephant tracks: can insurance compensate farmers for wildlife damage?
A new IIED-led project in Kenya and Sri Lanka is exploring whether insurance schemes can compensate women and men small-scale farmers for crop and property damage caused by human-wildlife conflict, primarily from elephants
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IIED's pro-poor gorilla tourism project shortlisted for major award
An initiative promoting local economic development near Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park has been shortlisted for the World Responsible Tourism Awards
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Livelihoods Insurance from Elephants (LIFE) in Kenya and Sri Lanka
IIED is working to facilitate private markets to insure small-scale women and men farmers for damage caused by human-wildlife conflict, primarily from elephants. This will provide support for insurance in two countries, Kenya and Sri Lanka
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Local economic development through gorilla tourism
Gorilla-tracking tourist activities in Uganda's Bwindi national park generate critical revenue for conservation, but local benefits from tourism are limited and the illegal use of the park's resources continues. This project developed and tested new community-based tourism products and services to improve local skills and job opportunities, and the long-term prospects for the park
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How best to deal with wildlife crime while protecting the poor?
A new project will explore the different reasons people commit wildlife crimes and suggest ways governments can respond without harming the poorest communities
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Building capacity for pro-poor responses to wildlife crime in Uganda
A project to build capacity for pro-poor responses in Uganda through learning more about the interactions between wildlife crime and poverty
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Forest and Farm Facility Phase I
The Forest and Farm Facility's vision is that smallholders, communities, and indigenous peoples and women's organisations have improved livelihoods and decision-making over forest and farm landscapes
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Climate adaptation and good development: two sides of the same coin
Assessing how development interventions can help people cope with climate variability will help us prepare better measures for the effects of future climate change, say Simon Anderson and Fawad Khan
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Work and shelter – two struggles, one reality
Urban development programmes have tended to treat livelihoods and shelter as separate problems to solve, when in fact they are closely linked. Grassroots organisations are increasingly seeking ways to tackle these challenges together.
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Sustaining local food systems and agricultural biodiversity
How and under what conditions can decentralised governance, capacity building and participation by farmers promote food systems that adapt to changing conditions and climates and maintain agricultural biodiversity?
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Introduction to conservation, communities and equity
Conservation is critical to protecting nature and biodiversity. But many conservation interventions have negative impacts on local people. IIED and partners are helping to build capacity to understand and implement equitable conservation activities and to enhance community voice in national and international conservation policymaking
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The informal economy: route into or out of poverty?
A paper published by the IIED raises questions about the link between the informal economy and sustainable development
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Climate refugees of the future
Bangladesh is calling for the rights of environmental refugees to be recognised as the country battles rising sea levels and chronic poverty
