IIED Links:

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Making food systems work for people and planet IIED has launched a web-based publication that shows how to rethink food systems for environmental and social gain
Business and Sustainable Development Project pages have been extensively revised and updated with details of our recent work on sustainable energy, direct investment, ISO 26000, small-scale producers and much more...		A sustainable future for the polar regions Looking at the issues such as pollution from marine transport routes, exploitation of natural resources, marine acidification, migration of commercial fish species and coastal erosion
Community Forest Management for Whom? Learning from field experience in Vietnam What makes community forest management (CFM) work for forests and livelihoods? And how can policy help?		Rethinking agriculture research to meet people's needs People in Africa, Asia and Latin America will have their say about the future of agricultural research under a new three year project

What roles for development researchers?
IIED Director Camilla Toulmin comments on DFID's newly launched five year research strategy

Environment and Urbanization
Finance for housing, livelihoods and basic services
This issue includes papers on finance for housing in Central America, finance for sanitation in Pakistan, and finance for incremental house construction.

IIED launches website on Environmental Mainstreaming
part of a project to develop a User Guide for integrating/mainstreaming environment in development decision-making

Development and Climate Days at COP13 Climate Change conference in Bali
held a mini film festival as a side event this year

World food leaders meet to bridge divide
Leaders in farming, policy, business, research and civil society are assessing how modernisation of the food system can benefit small farmers in developing nations.

Update on IIED assessment of Global Forest Partnership

IIED has completed the first stage of its assessment of the World Bank’s idea of a ‘Global Forest Partnership’. Preliminary report now available.

Our publications database has been revised and expanded.
Searchable by keyword, topic, author, region and type of publication. It is now easier than ever to find the resources you need

Climate fight must enlist biodiversity and communities
UN-led efforts to address climate change, conserve biodiversity and fight poverty must pay greater attention to the links between these global challenges, says IIED paper.

Architects win contest to design £30 million eco-building
The state-of-the-art building has the backing of Al Gore and will house some of the world’s top environment and development organisations.

YouTube clips of IIED-supported journalists at UN climate talks
Interviews with some of the journalists that IIED supported at the UN climate change conference in Bali

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IIED seeks to make the world a fairer and more sustainable place, in alliance with like-minded partners. Acting a catalyst, broker and facilitator, we seek to add voice to poorer and more vulnerable groups to ensure their interests are heard in decision-making, and can bring about progressive change. At this time of major global change and uncertainty, IIED and partners have a duty to stress the importance of sustainable development and the principles on which it is built as lying at the heart of all hopes for a secure future for our world.

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