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Urban climate action champion Debra Roberts gave the 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture (Image: IIED)
2016 Barbara Ward Lecture: Debra Roberts says global urbanisation strategy needs greater focus on practical implementation
… to indigenous knowledge to help us understand the role of natural ecosystems in improving the adaptive capacity of cities around the … government as Durban's first environmental manager, dealing with biodiversity and climate change issues. She now leads the Sustainable … work together to use more sustainable approaches, the use of natural ecosystems, localising food production, protecting catchments." In an …
Article, 11 October 2016
Cover for G04156.pdf
Climate-smart people-centred conservation: a synthesis report
Publication, 01 April 2017
A cup of coffee. We are drinking more coffee: the International Coffee Organisation says world coffee consumption has been rising by an average of 2.3 per cent per year (Photo: Benedicto de Jesus, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A new kind of brew: smallholder coffee and carbon
Insight, 08 December 2015
Cover for G00436.pdf
89 6 Sustainable Landscapes - Linking Conservation and Production
… and Production Jeffrey A. McNeely, IUCN The World Conservation Union Biodiversity preservation and improved agricultural productivity are not … of settings.1 1. INTRODUCTION Approaches being developed under many biodiversity-related international agreements and programmes call for ecosystems to be managed to meet multiple national objectives, including …
Publication, 01 January 1970
A huddle of people gather around one person to give advice and discuss negotiating tactics
Leading from the front: responding with urgency to the climate emergency
Event, 01 July 2019
Women from around Lake Mburo National Park participate in a focus group discussion as part of a multi-stakeholder governance assessment (Photo: Francesca Booker/ IIED)
Understanding governance and equity in conservation
… Biodiversity …
Insight, 27 April 2018
A stallholder in front of a food stall
Resilient food systems and COVID-19: lessons for a Just Transition
… Change (IPCC)  and  Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) .   Globalised food systems …
Insight, 22 May 2020
Group of people wearing green T-shirts pose for a picture.
Prakriti Resources Centre: climate change policy and action in Nepal
Article, 30 March 2022
Cover for 7805IIED.pdf
Community Wildlife Management in Southern Africa. A regional review
… Southern Africa is extremely varied in its range of ecosystems and its distribution of human populations. As the area moves … These range from, amongst many, land tenure and conservation/biodiversity impacts, to participation and vertical/horizontal …
Publication, 01 January 2000
Peñas Blancas Reservoir in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica: Growing money on trees
… actions on their land. The benefits of protecting ecosystems reach far beyond the farmer, to everyone who benefits from, … Green bank card is one of several instruments to help capitalise the Biodiversity Fund”, said Ms Reyes. This Trust Fund, created with seed … funding independent of the State. This fund will be used to protect biodiversity in areas that do not have downstream users who will pay for …
Insight, 26 June 2012