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Women farmers in Dodel, in Northern Senegal, take a break by the water pump (Photo: Philippine Sutz/IIED)
Q&A: Getting women's land rights recognised
… Philippine Sutz is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group . With commercial pressures on … to see why it’s beneficial for women to hold land.  And it's not just about shifting men's perspectives; this goes for women too. As well as … voices included in these decision-making bodies, our work is also about raising awareness among women that they can exercise their land …
Article, 19 March 2018
A container ship looms imposingly against a brilliant skyline
Monitoring and evaluation guidance for SDG14
… monitor and evaluate policies and interventions under SDG14 to learn about the positive interactions with other goals and any potential … account the integrated nature of sustainable development. What did IIED do? IIED  developed a handbook to help national stakeholders  and …
Project, 29 July 2019
Elephants in front of Mount Kilimanjaro. The blurring of fact and fiction, such as claims trophy hunting is driving declines of endangered species such as elephants, is fuelling a debate that could do more harm than good for conservation and for poor people (Photo: Amoghavarsha, via Google licence)
Trophy hunting under fire
… Last month Prince William felt the force of the debate when he spoke about the value of trophy hunting for conservation and was immediately … headlined " How trophy hunters destroy conservation " was actually about the specific issue of canned hunting of lions in South Africa.  … a future for wildlife – in Africa and elsewhere. Dilys Roe (dilys.roe@iied.org) is a principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . …
Insight, 11 April 2016
Two women holding jars of quinoa
Nature 4 Development: improving evidence and dialogue on biodiversity and development
… species, fail to resonate with the development community .   What is IIED doing? The Convention on Biological Diversity is due to adopt a … we have created . Please let us know what is missing via dilys.roe@iied.org. If you represent a development organisation and are interested to learn more about biodiversity and how it can contribute to development, get in …
Project, 06 May 2020
Man looks at two chimpanzees on a forest path
Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
… to Uganda’s wildlife conservation efforts. Here, Geoffrey Mwedde from IIED’s partner Wildlife Conservation Society Uganda puts questions to Owoyesigire about the aims, scope, and ambition of UWA’s exciting new community … and district local governments. Q: What’s particularly innovative about the new policy? GO: The policy’s mechanisms on capacity building …
Article, 21 July 2020
A flooded street in an informal settlement
To stay ahead of climate change, cities need to act now
Insight, 04 June 2019
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
… I joined IIED in November 1987 to set up the drylands programme . What was it attracted me to IIED? To be honest, I didn't know about Barbara Ward and her legacy. This was to be a revelation over my … The drylands programme, which I set up, aimed to reframe the debate about the huge areas of arid and semi-arid lands that make up 40 per …
Insight, 22 June 2015
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Agency and advocacy in the food systems of the majority: Food for thought from the Sustainable Diets for All programme
… and nutrition of food can be misdirected when based on assumptions about people’s priorities and level of knowledge. When citizens have the … insights gained from the Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) programme about the opportunities, dilemmas and tensions of putting citizen agency …
Publication, 01 June 2020
The journey to fetch fresh water for a resident of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India (Photo: Meena Kadri, Creative Commons via Flickr)
World Water Week 2016: key resources
… challenges at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). IIED's water work focuses on sanitation in urban areas and, as part of … that water in West Africa is equitably allocated and governed.  While IIED's researchers are not attending this year's World Water Week, we … and economically viable dams in West Africa ', shared lessons learned about dams in West Africa, and exchanged experiences with others from …
Article, 24 August 2016
COP16: United Nations climate change negotiations
Event, 01 January 2015