Natural resource management

We work to build partnerships, capacity and wise decision making for fair and sustainable use of natural resources, with a focus on local control

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Poverty reduction

Resilience

Emissions reductions

Climate finance

Biodiversity and conservation

Blog

How innovative shared labels are promoting diversity, biocultural heritage and sustainable production

Kata Wagner
20 March 2023

Four man stand aroun a table with a caiman on it. Two men hold its head and tail and another one hold a measure tape over the animal

Project

Assessing the sustainability of wild species use

June 2022 – March 2024

A woman stands to speak at a community meeting, surrounded by other people.

Blog

Mining and Community Development Agreements: a panacea for community justice in Uganda?

Kevin Bakulumpagi
29 November 2022

A group of people form a circle in the forest. One person is speaking

Blog

Diversification for climate resilience: a global priority

Duncan Macqueen
10 October 2022

A crowd of women and men hold banners and shout in protest

Blog

Confronting structural inequalities in South-North research collaborations

Lorenzo Cotula
11 May 2022

Interview

Q&A: Strengthening community voices to tackle illegal wildlife trade in Tanzania and Zambia

24 March 2022

A wooden fence leads on to a field behind which are trees

Article

From risk to resilience: incubating adaptive climate-proof businesses

15 February 2022

A woman farmer bends over in a field of crops in front of forest in the background.

Overview

Flourishing forests and prosperous people – together

04 January 2022

Related collections

Learn more about focused areas of IIED's natural resource management work

Conservation, communities and equity

A programme of work showing how IIED is building capacity to understand and implement equitable conservation and enhance community voice in conservation policymaking

Collection

Locally-controlled forestry

How IIED supports just transitions towards locally-controlled forestry that safeguard biocultural heritage, enhance entrepreneurship and improve prosperity within diverse and resilient landscapes

Collection

Resilience and diversity in food systems

A programme of work on how IIED is building greater local control, resilience and diversity into agricultural and food systems

Collection

Law, economies and justice

A collaborative programme of work on renegotiating the law to promote fairer, more sustainable economies

Collection

Publications

View more Natural resource management publications

Mainstreaming biodiversity in development cooperation: lessons learned from donor agency experience

SAGE and its early contributions to improvements in governance of area-based conservation

Montréal Declaration on Small-Scale Women Farmers for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use

Strengthening Indigenous land rights in Cameroon

Indigenous Seed Systems and Biocultural Heritage: The Andean Potato Park's Approach to Seed Governance

Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems and Biocultural Heritage: Addressing Indigenous Priorities Using Decolonial and Interdisciplinary Research Approaches

Establishing a Biocultural Heritage Territory to protect Kenya's Kaya forests - project launch workshop report

Engaging communities to tackle illegal wildlife trade - lessons from Southeast Asia, South America and sub-Saharan Africa

The nexus between soil degradation and agricultural expansion in Zambia

Future trade-offs to 2050: land cover change, biodiversity and agriculture in Zambia

How innovative shared labels are promoting diversity, biocultural heritage and sustainable production

Blog, 20 March 2023

Assessing the sustainability of wild species use

Active Project

Mining and Community Development Agreements: a panacea for community justice in Uganda?

Blog, 29 November 2022

Diversification for climate resilience: a global priority

Blog, 10 October 2022

Confronting structural inequalities in South-North research collaborations

Blog, 11 May 2022

Q&A: Strengthening community voices to tackle illegal wildlife trade in Tanzania and Zambia

Article, 24 March 2022

From risk to resilience: incubating adaptive climate-proof businesses

Article, 15 February 2022

Flourishing forests and prosperous people – together

Article, 04 January 2022

Two men on the side of a mountain; one bends over to pick up two sacks, the other carries them on his shoulders

Promoting better policy and citizen agency in the mining sector

Active Project

Towards a nature positive economic recovery post COVID-19

Event on 23 November 2021