Exploring why people eat wild meat – and designing better alternatives
COVID-19 has put wild meat trade and consumption firmly in the spotlight, resulting in international calls for a ban on places selling wild meat (so-called ‘wet markets’) and on international trade of wild meat.
Guest blogger Stephanie Brittain reports on new research from Cameroon investigating the drivers for wild meat consumption, to help find sustainable alternatives that work for rural people. Read the blog now.
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Blog by Phil Franks
Truly transformative change is key to combating the biodiversity crisis
For the Convention on Biological Diversity’s new post-2020 framework to be effective – and not more empty rhetoric – governance needs more attention. Upping ambition is just revamping the rhetoric if we cannot recognise and seriously tackle the deeper challenges that have so constrained progress to date.
Read the blog.
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Online event
14th International conference on community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA14)
Join us from 21-25 September 2020 for the International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change, the leading practitioner-focused forum on climate adaptation, delivering dialogue and evidence to inform policy and action – from the local to the global scale.
CBA14 will focus on five key themes: Climate finance, adaptation technology, responsive policy, nature-based solutions, and youth.
Find out more and register now.
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Our partners' perspectives
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Interview with the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA)
New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
A new community conservation policy is aiming to tackle poaching and reduce the number of human-wildlife conflicts in Uganda. Geoffrey Mwedde from Wildlife Conservation Society Uganda puts questions to George Owoyesigire of the Uganda Wildlife Authority about the aims, scope, and ambition of UWA’s exciting new community conversation policy and the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read the interview.
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Blog by Xiaoting Hou Jones and Yufen Chuang
Working with nature to build back better from COVID-19: inspirations from farmers in China
Guest blogger Yufen Chuang and IIED senior researcher Xiaoting Hou Jones reflect on why working with nature to adapt to climate change can offer valuable lessons on how to build back better from COVID-19. Read the blog.
IIED's ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) evidence and policy project is going into phase II, working with four countries: China, South Africa, Peru and Uganda. Find out more about the project.
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New projects and publications
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Project
Tackling the debt, climate and nature emergencies together
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, urgent debt relief is needed. This is an opportunity to change how debt relief is addressed and delivered. Over the next two years, IIED will be working to have creditors and receiving countries take up climate and nature programme swaps – a system that makes it possible to tackle the debt, climate change and nature emergencies together, in order to reduce poverty and ensure an inclusive and sustainable post-COVID recovery.
Find out more about the project.
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Briefing
Biocultural heritage territories: key to halting biodiversity loss
This policy briefing discusses how community-led approaches such as Indigenous biocultural heritage territories are vital to achieving both Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 targets and Sustainable Development Goals, and can help avoid negative social impacts often associated with state-run protected areas.
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Project report, 36 pages
Why eat wild meat? Factors affecting the success of alternative protein projects
Hunting wildlife for meat is widely practiced in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) but also widely understood to be unsustainable in many countries. This threatens both biodiversity conservation and food security. This report presents initial findings from online surveys and a review of project reports and websites conducted to explore the factors affecting the success of alternative protein projects across SSA.
Download the report.
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