Category: Rights, Resources & Livelihoods

Resource Africa promotes people-centred conservation for thriving, resilient livelihoods.  We advocate for people’s rights to sustainably use their natural resources, respecting their cultures, worldviews, and knowledge systems.  Our interventions are science-based.

Mongabay: Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation Q&A with Colleen Beg

Resource Africa June 29, 2021 0 Comments
Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation From Mongabay.com - Rhett A Butler in conversation with Colleen Begg In a Q&A with Colleen Begg, who co-founded both the Niassa Carnivore Project in Mozambique and Women for the Environment, Africa, Begg talks about discrimination, colonial legacy, privilege, and power dynamics in conservation. To me conservation really is one of the last...

Convention on Biological Diversity: Extend The Nagoya Protocol to Sustainable Use of Wildlife

Resource Africa May 06, 2021 0 Comments
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity: Extend The Nagoya Protocol to Sustainable Use of Wildlife by Professor Ademola Oluborode Jegede Imagine an approach to wildlife conservation that allows wildlife populations to flourish, respects the rights of local and indigenous peoples to determine their own future, and helps reduce poverty and inequality. A framework for achieving these positive...
NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS

Re-thinking nature-based solutions: seeking transformative change through culture and rights: A briefing for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Resource Africa April 30, 2021 0 Comments
Re-thinking nature-based solutions:seeking transformative change throughculture and rights This briefing, from Forest Peoples Programme looks at key areas in which nature-based solutions need more clarity and rigour if they are to play an effective and transformational role in driving financial and technical support where it is needed most to tackle the global environmental crisis, to uphold...
Time for nature

World leaders must approach development with a fresh perspective to save wildlife   By Maxwell Gomera

Resource Africa March 03, 2021 0 Comments
Time for Nature World leaders must approach development with a fresh perspective to save wildlife   By Maxwell Gomera The dulcet, almost musical voice of the Runkeeper App interrupted the pounding sound of my feet as I started my run. 'Time, five minutes. Distance, one point zero nine kilometres. Average speed, 4 minutes 57 seconds per kilometre,' the App voice announced. I had not run on this...