Our Annual Report for 2006-7 illustrates the far-reaching work we do to support more sustainable patterns of global development, and highlights important achievements over the last year.
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To learn more about the IIED programmes and projects featured on pages 32 to 46, see the following links.
pages 32, 33
Environment and poverty in Tanzania
Environment at the heart of Tanzania's development
pages 38, 39
Snap happy: a vision of successful ecotourism in Cambodia.
Sustainable tourism supporting species conservation in the Srepok Wilderness, Cambodia
Keeping biocultural legacies safe
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge against Biopiracy in the Andes
Banishing the Biopirates: A new approach to protecting traditional knowledge
Protecting Traditional Knowledge: Implications of Customary law
See also related press:
Global talks on intellectual property must not sideline indigenous communities
Governments urged to take a new approach to intellectual property rights.
Peru's ancient Inca capital says no to GM-potato
United Nations decision prompts potato celebration in Peru
The difference a day makes: IIED at COP
www.dcdays.org
page 40
Bearing fruit: how urban riches help rural Vietnam
Related work can be found under the theme Rural-Urban Linkages
Small town mobility: governance, development, migration
Related work can be found under the theme Rural-Urban Linkages
Fair miles: greener beans from Africa
'Fair miles'? The concept of 'food miles' through a sustainable development lens
Miles better? How ‘fair miles’ stack up in the sustainable supermarket
See also www.agrifoodstandards.net for an overview of the issues.
Page 43
Gaining ground: women and land in West Africa
Landless Women, Hopeless Women? Gender, land and decentralisation in Niger
Mapping for change: participatory learning and action
Mapping for change: practice, technologies and communication, in Participatory Learning and Action (issue 54)
Pages 44, 45
Pastoralism: countering the myths
Supporting pastoral civil society
Pastoralism: drylands’ invisible assets?
Sustainable strategies: peer-reviewed progress
Peer Review of the Netherlands National Strategy for Sustainable Development
Out of the woods: fair trade timber
Exploring fair trade timber: A review of current practice, institutional structures and possible ways forward
Forestry and Land Use: See October updates -Who wants fair trade timber?
page 46
FIELD's legal eagles
www.field.org.uk
Further links
We mention a number of other websites throughout the report. Please see below for a full list:
www.povertyandconservation.info
The Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) is a forum for facilitating mutual learning on the links between conservation and poverty among 70 key organisations.
www.upinsmokecoalition.org
The Working Group on Climate Change and Development is a unique and diverse network of development and environment organisations.
www.cba-exchange.org
Community-based adaptation recognises that environmental knowledge, vulnerability and resilience to climate impacts are embedded in societies and cultures.
www.agrifoodstandards.net
This project website explores ways of creating opportunities and identifying favourable outcomes for small-scale producers in developing countries to participate in international horticultural supply chains—particularly those in the UK.
www.iedafrique.org (French only)
IED Afrique est une organisation basée au Sénégal organisation indépendante à but non lucratif qui capitalise une quinzaine d’années d’expérience en Afrique de l’Ouest francophone.
www.field.org.uk
The Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD), a subsidiary of IIED, is a non-governmental organisation bringing together public international lawyers committed to the promotion of environmental protection and sustainable development through law.
http://www.mcgillaneves.com
Many thanks to McGillian Eves for designing the 2006/7 annual report.