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Clothes drying on a building
IIED and partners call for cities to develop a proactive response to urban displacement
… and asked it to find durable solutions. It is due to report back in 2021. The eight-member panel has issued a public call for bold, …
News, 10 June 2020
Local voice, global forest, local forest, global voice
… it come from? Global forest: How better to answer this than by going back to its origins eighteen months back? At this time, Growing Forests … Spearheaded by its work in mainstreaming the process of partnership building , GFP was able to support the GACF, the IAITPTF and the GACF in … local realities at international fora is enormous. By doing so, building one voice and concentrating efforts as part of the G3 alliance, …
Insight, 17 January 2011
Populations of bees, butterflies and other pollinators are declining, posing potential risks to important world food crops (Photo: Brian McGill)
The economics of mass extinction
… a century of well-intentioned conservation has done little to roll back this tide of extinction. A new approach is required.  So while the …
Insight, 29 May 2018
The voices of women involved in farming and fisheries, such as these in Bangladesh, are often lost in decision-making (Photo: CBFM-Fem Com Bangladesh/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Does gender balance improve forestry and fishery management?
… to have a vital role in conflict resolution. Including women in peace-building processes, for example, is believed to play a role in reducing … areas recovering from conflict. Such emerging evidence is central to building understanding of how gender influences natural resource governance. But, added to this, we need to look back over time and see what other evidence exists. A systematic map can …
Insight, 02 July 2015
A view over a large township
Internal and international influences on urban change
… people living in informal settlements and how they should go back to what he assumed was their village home. So I asked him: "Do you … There are also increasing numbers of programmes for adaptation or building resilience. But there are also increasing numbers of extreme … continue to respond. Then how quickly and well the economy bounces back and restores livelihoods.  How well will governments keep providing …
Insight, 27 May 2020
Seaweed farmers in Indonesia (Photo: Hiswaty Hafid/USAid, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Focusing the blue economy future on small-scale fisheries
… taking out of the ocean and coastal waters and not putting much back. So is that the end of the story? Of course not. Our #OceanHour …
Insight, 18 February 2019
The construction of the CCCF Mega Dam in Makueni County, Kenya is an example of local action during a devolved climate finance pilot project (Photo: Japheth Mutuku)
Decentralised model gets climate finance moving
News, 02 December 2016
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
… policy environment for such approaches, but there will be a need to back up SDG aspirations with specific international agreements and …
Insight, 02 September 2015
Man handing a package to another man. They are all wearing face masks.
Are India’s social protection schemes ‘future fit’?
Insight, 09 October 2020
Woman washing dishes with a jerrycan.
To address food insecurity in Uganda post COVID-19 the government must act now
… 10% of the population in urban areas are unlikely to have work to go back to. Forty-one per cent of retail and non-agricultural businesses …
Insight, 24 September 2020