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Two women wearing traditional gowns stand in a maize field
EbA Evidence and Policy: China
… change and promote sustainable development. Between 2015 and 2022, IIED, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and … shows that a range of implementation challenges remain. Read more about the learning and recommendations to overcome challenges in the … held the opening ceremony in Beijing of our photography exhibition about traditional farming culture. Under the theme of "Sowing Diversity, …
Project, 13 June 2018
Woman bends over to light fir under a cooking pot.
Carbon credits are distorting markets and destroying local businesses
Insight, 27 June 2023
Early morning in Dogo, West Java, Indonesia: getting low-cost furniture ready for selling on the street corner (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Formalising the informal
… was one of the questions discussed at a recent event  organised by IIED and partners, And if the answer was yes, what, we wanted to know, … to happen in this generation or the next." Perhaps formalisation is about ensuring tax registration? Not according to international … money to meet even the most basic of tax thresholds. If it's not about collecting tax, perhaps formalisation is about creating rules – …
Insight, 30 March 2016
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Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Chapter 6
… knowledge with varying degrees of coherence. Yet, when they speak about their lives of nurturing, farming and herding, they do so with a … or other individual chapters, please follow the ‘More information on IIED site’ link below. …
Publication, 01 June 2013
A row of women sitting with baskets of freshly picked tea leaves
We need more than business as usual, to leave no one behind
… and devastation to plants and animals has left many asking questions about the origin of ingredients in products from Brazil. As a result, … on how to become a sustainable business leader of tomorrow Interview: IIED’s Laura Kelly puts questions to Chris West from Sumerian Partners … from a domestic supplier in India will often have strict standards about where commodities are sourced from, will expect that source to be …
Insight, 10 January 2020
Fishermen collecting the day's catch (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)
Governing half of the planet for all the world's people – new rules for the high seas must include needs of poorest countries
… not just the wealthy few, can benefit from the ocean's resources. IIED is calling for the creation of a fund into which countries that … are shared fairly.  "We cannot afford to keep the status quo. This is about sustainably sharing 50 per cent of the planet with 100 per cent of …
News, 10 July 2017
A traditional farmer in the Eastern Himalaya where indigenous communities use seed networks to protect their knowledge. Research should not publish details of traditional knowledge that could be used commercially without equitable benefit-sharing (Photo: Ruchi Pant/Ecoserve)
Striving for the highest standards in research ethics
… At IIED, we have always thought of ourselves as a morally driven … up to our own high expectations. That is one of the reasons why IIED has spent the last year developing a new policy on research … Developing our ethics policy has forced us to think more closely about the ways in which gathering information with and from …
Insight, 14 June 2017
New Melones Lake, California, which is facing one of the most severe droughts on record with a state of emergency declared in January (Photo: Ben Amstutz, Flickr, via Creative Commons)
2016 – when global meets local in climate action
… action at the global scale. A catalytic effect? The big question about the Paris Agreement is whether it can act as a powerful catalyst … update the plan to make it stronger, and to communicate with citizens about how it is doing. This process has to be underpinned by credible … reflected in debates about finance and loss and damage. Analysis by IIED has shown that the Least Developed Countries' climate action plans …
Insight, 04 January 2016
A sunset in rural Mali: a new day is dawning towards securing the land rights of rural communities (Photo: Kurt Paterson, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: How a new law in Mali is securing villagers' rights to land
… Sciences P‎olitiques et Juridiques  and a long-time collaborator of IIED. In the interview, they discuss a historic new agricultural land … enabling villages to register their lands. But as soon as you talk about titles and land registration, you leave customary rights behind … the law over customary land, you said there is often an issue about whether a village or herders' camp is seen as having a legal …
Article, 10 August 2017
A black swan (Photo: Pete Jordan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Civil society organisations in the global South and disruptive change: implications for funders
… Over the last year and a half or so, the IIED has been working to understand how leaders of civil society … already a daily fact of life. The organisational disruption brought about by these forces doesn't just hamper the effectiveness of these … skills and capacities needed for funders to make sound judgments about organisations rather than projects or programmes.   Invest in …
Insight, 23 December 2016