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More than 90 per cent of Malawians rely on rain-fed subsistence farming to survive. Increasingly variable weather patterns are reducing crop yields and eroding food security (Photo: ILRI/Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: We must ensure Paris delivers on finance
Article, 24 November 2015
Cover for 17604IIED.pdf
Taking action against wildlife crime in Uganda
… being spent on activities to combat it. However, little is known about what drives local people to become involved in wildlife crime, or about which interventions are likely to be most effective in tackling …
Publication, 01 March 2017
Cover for G03099.pdf
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change Bulletin
… by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), took place at … resilience and climate prediction services; communicating knowledge about CBA; bridging local, sub-national and national levels in …
Publication, 01 April 2011
A woman burns off plastic in an informal settlement
What women want – part two: to map vulnerability to climate change
… This is the latest in a series of blogs and interviews , curated by IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite, examining different aspects of … mode to address these ever-present challenges. So when women heard about the Race to Resilience campaign , it was something they understood …
Insight, 11 June 2021
View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory
Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development
… agrobiodiversity and biocultural heritage, and informed policymakers about the potential for Indigenous biocultural heritage to support … land rights, based on Indigenous values and worldviews. What did IIED do? The project undertook participatory action-research in four … the area is undergoing rapid social change and tourism development. IIED and the four country partners held a research planning workshop in …
Project, 29 April 2019
Cover for 17493IIED.pdf
Chinese investment in Uganda: new impetus for sustainable development?
… government agencies, with support from NGOs, must share information about these investments and introduce stronger regulation — in …
Publication, 01 January 2019
Statements and workshop reports
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development initiative: events
… into development policy and planning.  Between 2012 and 2017 IIED and partners delivered a series of workshops on how governments … city level, building on the previous work with ICLEI. You can read about the project in  this story of change . In Zambia, project members … At the Harare workshop in November 2015 there was much conversation about how many efforts to integrate biodiversity into development plans …
Article, 09 July 2013
Men survey a flooded road in Kenya.
Rich nations fail to meet 8 climate-finance pledges analysis shows
… adaptation and mitigation activities. They made additional pledges about transparency, governance and the need to help the most vulnerable … no donor nation scored more than 67 per cent.   “Without transparency about how and when rich countries will meet their climate finance … the UN talks need an injection of goodwill,” says Saleemul Huq of IIED. “The rich nations can provide this by making good on their past …
News, 26 November 2012
An open sewer runs in front of homes
City leaders need to rise to the climate change challenge
Insight, 08 February 2020
Cover for G02841.pdf
Tools for enhancing knowledge-sharing in agriculture: improving rural livelihoods in Uganda (PLA 59)
… farmer organisations to generate, collect and share local information about effective agricultural practice. BROSDI integrates a range of Web … Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside and Giacomo Rambaldi. Published by IIED and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation …
Publication, 01 June 2009