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Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
Article, 12 November 2021
A discussion on protected area governance in a stakeholder workshop with a community on the edge of Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda (Image: Francesca Brooker/IIED)
Q&A: How can we achieve 'fairer conservation'?
… an instrumental one. The moral argument is that efforts to conserve biodiversity in the developing world continue to benefit the relatively … Biodiversity …
Article, 27 February 2018
Representatives of communities from Peru, Bhutan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea have formed an International network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (Photo: Lhab Tshering)
Indigenous mountain communities call on governments to support traditional knowledge-based adaptation
… the adaptation responses needed.  Climate change threatens mountain ecosystems and the people that depend on them for their livelihoods. All … knowledge and science to create effective solutions for agro-biodiversity conservation, food security and climate adaptation; and for … , IIED, the International Society for Ethnobiology and the National Biodiversity Centre of Bhutan . Download the Bhutan Declaration on …
News, 18 June 2014
Economic Incentives for Marine and Coastal Conservation
… and a range of critical additional ‘ecosystem services’, from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection. Yet …
Publication, 01 November 2013
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Barter markets: sustaining people and nature in the Andes
… Andean barter markets help sustain local food systems and the ecosystems in which they are embedded. Action research with indigenous … Andes better food security and nutrition;~- conserving agricultural biodiversity (genetic, species, ecosystem) through the growing and … systems is enhanced as a result of this dynamic management of biodiversity and economics by Andean indigenous peoples. …
Publication, 01 June 2006
A conservation agriculture demonstration at the Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust, Zambia. Conservation agriculture can increase productivity and improve soil structure (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture
… agricultural development pathways on socio-economic factors, biodiversity and the capacity of ecosystems to provide services to people over the long term The role of …
Project, 10 August 2017
Testing the water in Kenya's Tana River watershed. The river's ecosystem is being affected by a range of factors. Public and private organisations are exploring ways to improve ecosystem management (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
'Sustainable development science' for transforming our world
… the siloed to the synergistic. The MA demonstrated the links between ecosystems, the services they provide, and human wellbeing. It offered … 'Not too well' was the verdict. It estimated that 65 per cent of ecosystems were being degraded – this disintegration of the natural … an interdisciplinary framework. One that would put the international biodiversity and environment conventions front and centre in planning …
Insight, 09 October 2015
Two men with vests from the Red Cross in front of a destroyed building
Here’s how to propel a green recovery for the poorest
Insight, 07 April 2021
'Imagine Bwindi', by Ugandan musician Richard Kawesa, is expected to reach thousands of people, from local communities living around Bwindi to policymakers (Photo: PCI Media Impact)
'Imagine Bwindi' music video launched on World Wildlife Day
… development practitioners and promotes dialogue on the links between biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction. It is coordinated … it is considered to be part of one of the most biologically rich ecosystems on Earth, with a large number of endemic species. It has been … Biodiversity …
News, 03 March 2015
IIED produced an animation to raise awareness of the SDGs and the potential of the new development agenda (Image: IIED/Hands Up)
Global goals for sustainable development
… the fisheries sector, and to support healthy marine and coastal ecosystems and resilient fishing communities. Goal 14 and its targets … desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. The MDGs notoriously failed to deal with the … agenda to international and regional conventions, for example on biodiversity and land degradation. The SDGs eliminate that artificial …
Insight, 02 September 2015