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IIED at London Climate Action Week, November 2020
… summit (COP26) was originally scheduled, and was a major milestone building momentum towards the rearranged summit in November 2021.  There … fair and resilient recovery’; ‘Roadmap to COP26/Glasgow’; ‘Building a sustainable, net zero London’; and ‘Whole of society climate … in a call for higher ambition on the global biodiversity agenda Capacity building for climate action and ambition: what have we …
Event, 17 November 2020
A trader wades through knee-high flooded water in a marketplace
Community voices – the climate needs you in COP26 countdown
Insight, 28 January 2020
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
… services and promoting social equality, lies at the heart of sustainable development.  IIED's research in sub-Saharan Africa  has … between UK and African research organisations will enhance their capacity to investigate these challenges through a participatory process … project will then engage key stakeholders in participatory scenario building exercises. Scenario building allows stakeholders to simulate …
Project, 10 August 2017
Women sit next to piles of vegetables like onions, tomatoes, garlic.
Five pathways to deliver rapid support for a green and resilient COVID-19 recovery in the LDCs
… working conditions, they improve their ability, and their families’ capacity, to cope with adverse economic and climate impacts. Pathway 3: … and increase their resilience to future shocks. This will require sustainable and resource-efficient operations (such as the Better Cotton … to strengthen social dialogue and democratic engagement processes by building on existing community-led institutions. This will help …
Insight, 30 September 2021
Fishermen hauling in a net
Accounting for small-scale fisheries and the ocean
… undermining the country’s ability to fulfil its commitments to sustainable development (such as SDG14 (life under water), SDG2 (zero … developments.   4. How can we predict and adapt to change? A limited capacity to predict, understand and prepare for change is aggravated by … fisheries, especially in data challenging environments  Capacity building, through a webinar to discuss how natural capital accounting …
Project, 05 August 2019
Woman walking through a field, carrying a bag on her head.
How to green Africa from the grassroots
… a microcosm of the forces at work across the continent. They show a capacity to mix traditional with new forms of knowledge, to take … without a passport’, local capacity and institutions are central to building resilience to disruption. Across the world, the COVID-19 … CAADP policies focus more on boosting production than ensuring sustainable food security and livelihoods for Africa’s predominantly …
Insight, 04 January 2021
Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
… On this page 1. Building resilient agriculture and food systems 2. Early warning, early … are rising and becoming increasingly complex. Greater attention, capacity and resources for managing compound risks is key to boosting … actors. This is no longer tenable, nor is it just, resilient or sustainable. A holistic perspective on building systemic resilience is …
Article, 12 November 2021
A huge selection of photos are displayed in a Peru supermarket (Photo: Teresa Stanton, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Nourishing diversity in our food systems
… Food Change Labs in Indonesia, Uganda, Zambia and Bolivia . By building upon citizens' knowledge and practices, Food Change Labs and … Food Change Labs and other work described above are part of the 'Sustainable diets for all' programme , which builds capacity among local civil society organisations in Uganda, Indonesia, …
Insight, 10 October 2017
A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber
China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?
… project ever. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)  easily beats the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement in terms of money … and sustainable development. But action on the ground is what counts. Building infrastructure creates huge emissions and sucks up overseas resources, while conveniently venting the excess capacity of a slowing domestic economy . While accusations of predatory …
Insight, 19 June 2019
The Nebbou area, between Ouagadougou and Leo, a dry reservoir used for the manufacture of handmade bricks in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR))
Archive of completed drylands and pastoralist projects
Article, 17 December 2012