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Boys polish chairs for sale in the furniture market, Nampula, Mozambique.
Introduction to locally-controlled forestry
… access markets, attract investment and influence policymakers. IIED strengthens organisations engaged in locally-controlled forestry of … business incentives to keep the forests standing. This is where IIED's forest and prosperity work programme comes into play. National … and forest degradation. This work allows us to raise awareness about the advantages of investing in locally-controlled forestry at an …
Article, 05 August 2013
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Transformative change to reduce deforestation in DRC
… growth in population and agricultural production predicted, concern about forest loss is mounting. For three decades, variations on the …
Publication, 01 July 2019
A demonstration of solar PV products by the Energy and Environment Partnership in Tanzania's southern Iringa Region gathers an audience of all ages (Photo: EEP Southern and Eastern Africa, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Bringing solar out of the shadows
Insight, 20 February 2017
People in a Nicaraguan village play a game to learn how climate change adaptation, ecosystem management and disaster risk reduction fit together (Photo: Maya Schaerer/NLRC)
Playing climate change — can games unblock the negotiations?
… – and take account of their desires and anxieties. In recent years, IIED teamed up with Internews to explore these issues at our Climate … and uncertainties could be hallmarks of the 'new normal'". About 4,000 people in over 40 countries have now experienced the Climate … in the White House in Washington DC. Now, with the Climate Centre as IIED’s co-hosts of the Development and Climate Days , this weekend in …
Insight, 15 November 2013
An early sunrise at COP14 in Poznan (Photo: Friends of the Earth, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
COP14 UN Climate Change Conference
Event, 20 December 2008
Non-literate farmer filmmakers help save biodiversity
… The IIED, Deccan Development Society and village-based women's groups called … in the knowledge that they would be working with and communicating about this research in their own ways, at their own pace, and with … and interpreting them for the outside world which does not know about this." The project shows that local food systems, crop and …
News, 14 May 2008
Squamish river, Canada. Under Stephen Harper, Canada has lagged behind the rest of the world in combating climate change; will new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau make a difference? (Photo: James Wheeler, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will new leadership boost Canadian contribution to global climate negotiations?
… we expect from a Liberal Canada? The Liberal campaign was cautious about making climate change pledges. Rather than commit to an emissions … the issue of loss and damage. While the election of Justin Trudeau is about far more than a repudiation of Stephen Harper's environmental … the global climate negotiating table.  Dave Steinbach (dave.steinbach@iied.org) is a researcher in IIED's Climate Change Group . …
Insight, 21 October 2015
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Improving community attitudes towards conservation: learning from efforts to address wildlife crime in Uganda
… and surrounding villages have worked to change the way people think about conserving the wildlife that’s on their doorstep. It draws on …
Publication, 30 September 2021
Making food systems work for people and planet
… audio files, whose first three chapters are now freely available at IIED's website. "Rising food prices and fears that biofuel production … meeting that endorse the report that: "Agriculture is not just about putting things in the ground and then harvesting them…it is increasingly about the social and environmental variables that will in large part …
News, 06 May 2008
This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
2014: the International Year of Family Farming
… pressures and other economic, social and cultural factors. In IIED, we agree with the need to build frameworks, institutions and … the demand for sustainably produced food is increasing worldwide.  IIED's work on family farming IIED's work on family and smallholder … to those who matter , Duncan Macqueen (2014) Spreading the word about the no-till agricultural revolution , Laura Silici (2014) …
Article, 22 April 2014