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For the first time, IIED has produced a bespoke online annual report (Photo: IIED/We are Tangerine)
Annual Report 2013/14: Building bridges for sustainable development
… policy and practice, ideas and action, and investment and impact.  IIED gathers the evidence and makes the connections needed to bridge the … a host of videos and interactive elements within a snapshot of IIED's areas of work over the past few years. We hope that by producing an online version, information about our activities will be available to a wider audience. "Building …
Page, 06 November 2014
Three generations of Syrian refugees queuing at a registration point on the Syria/Lebanon border. The United Nations says 4.8 million people have fled the conflict in Syria (Photo: UNHCR/ M. Hofer, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Critical theme: Conflict, climate and migration in Syria – did the media get it right?
…   Our October Critical Theme seminar was about how the media have been reporting on the connections between … rights organisations.  Randall argued that the story presented about the connection between climate change and the Syrian conflict has … by both the press and the public. The meeting was chaired by IIED director Andrew Norton, and featured discussant Megan Rowling, of …
Event, 03 October 2016
Agama Lizard, Uganda. Seven of Africa's biogeographic regions converge in Uganda, making it a country with a high level of biodiversity (Photo: Michael Sale, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting to know you: stronger relationships contribute to better biodiversity mainstreaming
… so I was assigned to go." NEMA pitched a strong business case to me about why it was important to consider biodiversity issues in our … meetings. In turn, she reported back to colleagues in her department about what NEMA was trying to do and in detail about the critical status … Stories of change: mainstreaming biodiversity and development , IIED & UNEP-WCMC (2015), IIED tool …
Article, 21 March 2016
A data collector speaks to a householder.
Helping Indigenous communities secure land rights in Nepal
… working on community land rights. CLPI is a joint programme of IIED, Namati and the International Land Coalition (ILC) . Documenting … through a 'community origin story' mapping exercise. It learned about this exercise from the  Rights and Rice Foundation , a Liberian … Tharu people into being landless, unpaid, bonded labourers.  Learning about this dispossession awakened a passion for justice among Tharu …
Article, 18 December 2020
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Q&A: Strengthening community voices to tackle illegal wildlife trade in Tanzania and Zambia
… Since 2018 IIED has worked with the  Tanzania Natural Resources Forum (TNRF) and … and Rodgers Lubilo (RL), board chairperson at Zambia CBNRM Forum, about why communities need to be engaged in anti-poaching approaches, … ) Q: What lessons can be drawn from experiences in your countries about local community leadership and engagement in tackling IWT? ZF: …
Article, 24 March 2022
A small farm near the Scottish town of Crief
Understanding the role of small farms in Europe (SALSA)
… – are very often under the radar of research and the big discussions about agricultural policy in the European Union (EU). SALSA (Small … learning between the European and African counterparts. What IIED is doing Unlike most of the other SALSA partners, IIED isn't conducting fieldwork in one of the selected regions. Instead, …
Project, 06 November 2018
Woman kneeling down tends to crops
COP27: re-imagining partnerships for adaption finance
Insight, 05 October 2022
Tomatoes and other vegetables on a shelf outside a house
How can farmers in Ethiopia work safe and smart during COVID-19 lockdown?
… IIED’s Facebook page  regularly invites our followers – particularly our younger audience – to blog about their opinions and experiences. In this month’s blog, we hear how farmers in Ethiopia are managing the fallout from COVID-19 and about the options for operating safely during the pandemic. The Kobo …
Insight, 03 July 2020
Ladeh Panjang Wetlands. Photo: Luke Mackin
Building evidence on how biodiversity affects poverty
… IIED and the UN Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring … in Environmental Evidence and have been brought together in the IIED research report ' Biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction: … summarised in the IIED Briefing ' Poverty and biodiversity: evidence about nature and the nature of evidence '. This project built on the …
Project, 22 June 2015
IIED received some warm responses to a survey on its publications carried out last year (Image: Nick Turner/IIED)
Feeling the love
… in the future. "Love you!" - a response to our publications survey IIED has more than 5,000 publications available to download free of … insights. As well as having lots of useful specific information about how people use our publications, we've also gained a barometer of … the most of their research. The most common responses to the question about how people had heard about the institute were through an internet …
Insight, 11 February 2016