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Testing the water in Kenya's Tana River watershed. The river's ecosystem is being affected by a range of factors. Public and private organisations are exploring ways to improve ecosystem management (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

'Sustainable development science' for transforming our world

IIED's Steve Bass proposes a 10-year review of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment as a guide for taking forward the SDGs
9 October 2015 BlogGovernance, Policy and planning, Sustainable markets
IIED's Fitsum Weldegiorgis presents at the action dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania (Photo: Steve Aanu)

'The time is right' for dialogue about sustainable ASM in Tanzania

IIED's second country dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) took place in Geita, Tanzania, in November 2017. The four-day event brought together around 90 participants, including miners, government officials and representatives from large mining companies and civil society organisations

19 January 2017ProjectSustainable markets
Villagers in India dig out a silted-up water tank as part of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (Photo: McKay Savage, Creative Commons via Flickr)

2019 – the way forward is a Green Decent Work Guarantee

How can the world achieve a step change in the fight against climate change during 2019? IIED director Andrew Norton looks at the issues and suggests that a radical approach may hold the solution

30 December 2018 BlogClimate change, Policy and planning, Sustainable markets

3rd Provocation Seminar invite

Development policymakers and practitioners are increasingly turning to markets to alleviate poverty.

March 2010PublicationSustainable markets
A farmer tending his sunflowers in Kenya. Credit: Abbi Buxton

A day in the life of a commercial consultant

Find out how IIED, a Kenyan flower business and a consultant get flowers grown by smallholder Kenyan farmers onto the shelves of a UK supermarket.
14 February 2012 BlogFood and agriculture, Sustainable markets
A collection of resources and images relating to the artisanal and small-scale mining sector compiled by IIED (Photos/images: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures and IIED)

A day of sharing ASM knowledge

Throughout Thursday, June 25, IIED created an online space for dialogue and sharing knowledge and information about the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector

25 June 2015ArticleSustainable markets

A growing call for organisation

In The Hague, Stockholm and Paris we have heard the call for more support to producer organisations through which small-scale farmers can have a voice in the market. This call was re-iterated at the latest IIED/HIVOS provocation ‘Making markets work for smallholders or wage labour?’ — held in Manchester, United Kingdom, last week, in collaboration with The University of Manchester.

2 June 2011ArticleFood and agriculture, Poverty, Sustainable markets
A small-scale mine in Mawemeru village, Geita district, Tanzania (Photo: copyright Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

A mine of information

As IIED prepares to launch its Multi-stakeholder Dialogue Series on Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining with a two-day "visioning workshop" bringing together influential stakeholders, we have pulled together a list of useful resources on ASM.
20 April 2015 BlogSustainable markets

A new agenda for consumption

In this study of sustainable consumption, IIED addressed consumption issues among poorer communities, countries and regions, and create political space for opinions, values, demands and solutions from these constituencies
2 October 2008ProjectSustainable markets
A cup of coffee. We are drinking more coffee: the International Coffee Organisation says world coffee consumption has been rising by an average of 2.3 per cent per year (Photo: Benedicto de Jesus, Creative Commons via Flickr)

A new kind of brew: smallholder coffee and carbon

Has shade coffee shed new light on the multiple benefits from improved agricultural systems? Ina Porras blends together a number of thoughts after a side event at the Global Landscape Forum
8 December 2015 BlogClimate change, Food and agriculture, Sustainable markets

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