Research ABSTRACT Non-timber forest products, such as wild mushrooms, are important in rural livelihoods worldwide. As resource pressures and environmental goals change, land tenure and harvesting arrangements also create novel conditions influencing local communities’ resource access. When commons governance encourages (or discourages) cooperative resource harvesting, this may also impact other social ties among community members.
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15 November 2022
Market integration and cooperative resource harvesting among kin, clan, and neighbors in rural China
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15 November 2022
Australia news live: evacuation orders for Forbes as central-west NSW faces major floods
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Business leaders welcome chance for ‘tremendous reset’ of relations with Beijing Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The acting prime minister and defence minister, Richard Marles, last night spoke at the Sydney Institute, revealing some of his thinking after receiving the interim advice from the defence strategic review.
15 November 2022
Climate crisis in Bangladesh: Stories from the ground
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By External SourceNov 14 2022 (IPS-Partners) Adit Adhikary lives in Bangladesh’s southern coast, where land is going underwater, salinity is destroying agriculture and drinking water is scarce. Will conversations at COP27 reflect the needs of his community? Source: BRAC
14 November 2022
Understanding migration to protected area buffer zones in Costa Rica utilizing cultural consensus analysis
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Research ABSTRACT Human migration to the world’s protected areas’ (PA) buffer zones is widely seen as a significant threat to conserving biodiversity. Research since 2005 has demonstrated some evidence for global migration trends but also highlighted the simultaneous need to understand the local, contextual factors that drive migration around individual PAs. Investigation into human migration
13 November 2022
Climate crisis solutions may also ease global financial shocks, Albanese to tell business leaders
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The prime minister will use a keynote address at the B20, a business summit alongside the G20 in Bali, to argue for a more sustainable global economy Want to get the Afternoon Update to your email inbox every weekday? Sign up here Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast
12 November 2022
Cop27: US ‘totally supportive’ of moves to address loss and damage, says Kerry – as it happened
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US climate envoy John Kerry has said his country is ready to discuss the loss and damage at Cop27 After six years as the big cheese of UN climate negotiations, Patricia Espinosa has been enjoying walking the halls of power not quite as an ordinary Joe and apparently isn’t closely following the negotiations. “It has
12 November 2022
Indigenous Peoples Have Their Own Agenda at COP27, Demand Direct Financing
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Representatives of native women from Latin America and other continents pose for pictures at COP27, taking place in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh. Some 250 indigenous people from around the world are attending the 27th climate conference. CREDIT: Daniel Gutman/IPS By Daniel GutmanSHARM EL-SHEIKH , Nov 12 2022 (IPS) Indigenous peoples are no longer
11 November 2022
Trade-offs in the implementation of good practice in large carnivore conservation and management
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Research ABSTRACT Challenges related to increasing large carnivore populations in Europe led to the establishment of the EU Platform on Coexistence between People and Large Carnivores. We present the work undertaken by the Secretariat of the Platform in analyzing case studies in large carnivore conservation and management, which reflected good practice. We focused on 10
10 November 2022
What happened on the third day of Cop27 in Egypt?
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Negotiations move behind closed doors and China confirms ‘informal’ talks with US After the leaders’ speeches of the first couple of days, most of the negotiations have now moved behind closed doors. The big discussions today were all around finance, and there does appear to have been some movement on this, as Damian Carrington reported,
9 November 2022
Climate Finance for Locally-Led Climate Solutions Needs a New Focus
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Decision-making power is still held at the national and international level, often failing to (financially) enable local actors to lead climate action. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS By Anne JellemaCAPETOWN, South Africa, Nov 9 2022 (IPS) Imagine a world where the people hit hardest by climate crisis have a say in how to stop it. Imagine that