Blog | 10 12月, 2020
Inspiration from half a world away
An inspiring group of women from Central America has recently made me feel particularly lucky to do the kind of work that I do with the Forest and Farm Facility. Women from the Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques are changing the game, at the local level and at…
Publication | 2020
Catalysing State and non-State actors for nature
In recent decades, partnerships and cooperative initiatives of state and non-state actors have been increasingly called upon by the United Nations to contribute transformative solutions to the challenges of sustainable development. Many of such initiatives strive to end hunger, mitigate climate…
Story | 30 10月, 2020
Moving forward on lobster fishery means addressing access and conservation
CEESP News: by Tony Charles*. Originally published on Policy Options, October 28, 2020
The situation unfolding in the Nova Scotia lobster fishery raises larger questions around who holds decision-making power over this natural resource.
Story | 11 10月, 2020
Subtle Ways of Excluding Indigenous Voices
To observe Indigenous Peoples Day in the US, we share this personal opinion piece by CEESP Member Minnie Degawan, activist for Indigenous Peoples’ rights from the Cordillera, Philippines & Director of Conservation International’s Indigenous & Traditional Peoples Program
Story | 22 9月, 2020
Guide to identifying ecosystem services in protected areas
CEESP News: by Kasandra-Zorica Ivanić, Sue Stolton, Carolina Figueroa Arango and Nigel Dudley
What do protected areas give back to local and more distant communities, if anything?
A new tool from the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas helps us find out. The Protected Areas…
Story | 04 9月, 2020
Three landscape conservation projects converge in the Kilombero Valley
Kilombero Valley in Tanzania is an area of high biodiversity – including a Ramsar listed wetland – that is under ever-increasing human pressure. It is also part of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT), a public-private partnership initiated through…
Story | 23 7月, 2020
Announcing Special Issue: "Protected and conserved areas" in the journal Sustainability
CEESP News: by Dr. J. Marc Foggin and Dr. Sarah J. Halvorson, Guest Editors *
The journal Sustainability has recently launched a special issue on Inclusive Governance and Management of Protected and Conserved Areas. This is an opportunity to present case studies, research findings and…
Story | 22 7月, 2020
Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Indigenous Peoples Representative to the U.N., Speaks With GlacierHub
CEESP News: by RADHIKA GOYAL, of GlacierHub; undergraduate in Economics and Computer Science, Columbia College
Artículo | 09 7月, 2020
La pandemia entre un conflicto en la agricultura familiar y la agroecología: el caso peruano
CEESP News: by Nancy Pierina Benites Alfaro*
La vigente crisis sanitaria conlleva a repensar los sistemas de producción local, así como sus beneficios o daños al ecosistema y sus sociedades. En los últimos años, por ejemplo, ha surgido fuertemente el concepto de agricultura familiar para…
Story | 09 6月, 2020
IUCN Lao PDR organised two field missions to the Xe Champhone Ramsar Wetland as part of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) – funded Climate Adaption in Wetlands Area Project (CAWA) to develop a Non-Timber Forest Resource Programmeme (NTFP) in 16 villages.