Why eat wild meat?
Wild meat alternative projects are commonly used to try to curb or replace the consumption of wild meat with more sustainable options, especially where hunting is illegal or unsustainable. However, the success of past projects has been mixed, in part because projects are often developed with poor understanding of why people eat wild meat in the first place.
A decision support tool has been produced to provide step-by-step guidance for conservation practitioners on how to design projects to reduce the consumption of wild meat by promoting alternative sources of protein. To hear more about the decision support tool and the project join the webinar "Why eat wild meat? Insights from Africa and lessons for COVID-19 responses" on Wednesday 4 August exploring why people eat wild meat and how to design interventions that can help improve sustainability and safety.
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The team behind the tool is also carrying out an online survey to learn if and how understanding of food choice as a driver of consumption has changed, and to gather feedback on the decision support tool. It takes around 10-15 minutes to complete.
- For government officials, donors and NGO staff and academics working in sub-Saharan Africa, please complete this survey.
- For practitioners, including those involved in designing and implementing wild meat alternatives projects (commonly referred to as alternative protein or alternative livelihoods projects) in sub-Saharan Africa, please complete this survey.
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Spotlight: Connecting climate change and nature
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Guest blog by Gabriela Flores Zavala
Building wider support for ecosystem-based adaptation: how can communications help?
Evidence shows that ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) can help increase people's resilience and ability to adapt to climate change. However, policymakers have not adopted this approach as widely as they could. Following a recent CBA15 event, Gabriela Flores outlines three ways communications could help increase EbA uptake.
Read the blog.
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New report from CAN-UK
Nature-based solutions in action: Lessons from the frontline
Nature-based solutions (NbS) have the power to tackle biodiversity loss, climate change and poverty in an integrated way, so their appeal to governments, businesses and civil society groups is understandable. This report highlights successful NbS across a wide range of contexts, and was developed by members of the CAN-UK nature-based solutions working group. It includes case studies from IIED, Care International, Excellent Development, Farm Africa, IBIS Rice Conservation Co., Plan International, Practical Action, RSPB, Tree Aid, World Vision UK and WWF.
Download the report.
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Project news
Frontline Funds Accelerator: catalysing climate investment to the grassroots
The Frontline Funds Accelerator coalition seeks to speed up investment in grassroots-led ‘frontline funds’ for climate action. The coalition is anchored in individual and collective agency, co-production, climate justice and effectiveness.
Find out about the project.
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Our partners' perspectives
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Guest blog by Million Belay
African social movements call on UN food summit to give people back control
In the second blog in our ‘food year’ series, guest blogger Million Belay explains why now is the time to demand a better food system that works for small-scale food producers in Africa – who account for most of the world’s food insecure.
Read the guest blog.
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London Climate Action Week event
Natural solutions for people, climate and nature: co-beneficial approaches
This online event during London Climate Action Week explored solutions to the triple crisis of development, climate change and biodiversity loss that could have positive benefits for people, climate and nature. It featured speakers professor Sir Bob Watson, former chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES); professor Nathalie Seddon, University of Oxford; Camila Zepeda Lizama, Mexican government, and Simon Sharpe, of the UK government.
Watch the event recording.
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News
Argentinian city Rosario wins award for urban sustainability
The World Resources Institute Ross Centre 'Prize for Cities' competition has awarded its grand prize to the municipality of Rosario, to recognise major progress in building climate resilience and equity through urban agriculture.
Read the news story.
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New publications and jobs
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Toolkit, 19 pages
Strengthening the foundational elements of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: a guide for negotiators
This is the third in a series of guides published by IIED that supports Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) negotiators to influence key aspects of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). This guide seeks to support Parties to the CBD who wish to strengthen the chapters on Enabling Conditions, Implementation Support Mechanisms, and Responsibility and Transparency (the ‘foundational elements’) in the GBF.
Download the toolkit.
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Issue paper, 28 pages
Redesigning debt: lessons from HIPC for COVID, climate and nature
Calls for additional debt relief are getting louder. To meet the multiple challenges of debt, climate change and biodiversity loss, a new model is needed. Focusing on lessons from the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, established 25 years ago by the World Bank and IMF, this paper proposes a new international debt relief initiative, which prioritises investment in climate and nature, to get developing countries’ economies back on track post-pandemic.
Download the paper.
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We're hiring
Researcher - forests and prosperity, Africa
IIED's forest team leads our research on forests and prosperity, seeking to build the evidence, capacity and action to strengthen the voice, businesses and resilience of local forest producer organisations. We are now looking for a researcher to join this team on a permanent, full time basis.
Find out more and apply by 13 August.
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