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Side event at the CBD Global Workshop on NBSAPs Revision Process, 12 November 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya
… and Action Plans (NBSAPs).  The workshop was held in Nairobi, Kenya. IIED and partners organised a side event on the ' Mainstreaming … members – presented their key lessons learned. You can see more about their presentations below. Botswana Dineo Gaborekwe from Botswana … presentations – including an overview of the NBSAPs 2.0 project – on IIED's Slideshare site  or below. NBSAPs 2.0 – Project overview : Abisha …
Article, 21 May 2014
A view over a forest
Truly transformative change is key to combating the biodiversity crisis
… initiative. Combating the loss of forest biodiversity is primarily about the need for better managing the competing objectives of … self-sufficiency in staple food crops is a desirable objective. Both IIED’s and Paul Van Itersum’s analyses of Ethiopia and Ghana show that …
Insight, 30 June 2020
A woman makes clothes for SOKO, a Kenyan textiles supplier that combines fashion manufacturing with bettering local livelihoods.
SOKO: Learning lessons on how to add value to the East African apparel sector
… that retail at a cost in line with other designer products. This IIED briefing paper, Knowledge networks: Adding value to the East … was this year’s winner of the Africa Award , to learn some lessons about how to integrate with global networks, develop local capacity and … supplying international markets. Watch this video to find out more about SOKO . How does it do it? This paper found that SOKO managed this …
Insight, 11 February 2013
Dialogue participants visited ASM operations (Photo: Mkhululi Nkosilamandla Ncube)
Can ASM lead the Africa Mining Vision?
… a dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) organised by IIED with HakiMadini and MTL Consulting  in Tanzania. Participating in the dialogue lived up to what I had heard about the previous ASM dialogue held in Ghana , from the diverse … the continent. The usual follow-up questions are: "How do we go about implementing it? Are countries actually implementing it? How many …
Insight, 07 December 2017
Cover for G00283.pdf
OPEN LETTER TO RT HON TONY BLAIR 23 November 2005
… OPEN LETTER TO RT HON TONY BLAIR 23 November 2005 Organised by IIED 3 Endsleigh Street London WC1H 0DD Dear Prime Minister We agree … house must be in order and we must demonstrate that we are serious about meeting or exceeding targets already set. We should defend, not …
Publication, 01 November 2005
An area of forest in Tanzania, where REDD+ activities have included the support of community land use planning and the provision of alternative livelihoods (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Tackling deforestation as part of climate action
Insight, 17 December 2015
A man ploughing with an ox
Three things climate funds can learn from the COVID-19 response
Insight, 25 June 2020
COP21 president Laurent Fabius (second right) and UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana Figueres (second left) celebrate the Paris Agreement (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A historic agreement in Paris
Insight, 14 December 2015
Rich nations failing to keep Copenhagen promise to help poor nations adapt to climate-change
News, 16 November 2010
Cover for 10815IIED.pdf
Why small towns matter: urbanisation, rural transformations and food security
… and that of their surrounding rural region. They are also home to about half the world’s urban population and are projected to absorb much …
Publication, 01 March 2017