improved agricultural practices, including increased harvest rates,
a decrease in the use of harmful chemicals, pesticides, and fertilizers,
and new techniques to create their own organic or semi-organic fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides.
Community-led development programs and initiatives focused on human well-being often lead to reduced deforestation and poaching. By focusing on issues related to food security and household well-being it is possible to create positive environmental outcomes.
Project design based on local input, needs, opportunities, values, and community characteristics is a variable highly associated with project success.
Poaching, illegal logging, and encroachment encounter rates were negatively correlated with indicators of participation in the ILI and improvements in human well-being. Further analysis and monitoring of the socio-economic and environmental outcomes over time may provide stronger correlations and longer-term evidence for the adoption and refinement of ILI-themed projects.
Conservation initiatives should embrace wider, more complex views on the potential impacts on human well-being beyond basic economic impacts.
Conservation approaches must account for the complex socio-ecological systems in all aspects of programmatic strategy, from program design and implementation to evaluation and adaptive management.
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