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Jack fruit vendor spreads out their wares on the ground.
Putting informal food systems at the centre of sustainable diets
… and climate change, so that they can "deliver affordable and sustainable healthy diets for all, and decent livelihoods for food … direct support to finance activities, infrastructure improvements and capacity building. Finally, data is an important element to challenge prevailing … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 16 October 2020
Aerial view of two side of farming land, split down the middle by a river. the left side is the community land that has been planted with oil palm and the right side is the Padang Sugihan Wildlife Reserve - Sebokor, whose large trees are no longer visible.
New deforestation regulations must consider smallholder farmers
… farmers in modern supply chains has been one of the central goals of development over the last 20 years.  Smallholder farming is a key source … and capacities of smallholders is critical for achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals and for building climate resilience. When aiming to stop and reverse …
Insight, 09 July 2025
A satellite phone provided by Télécoms Sans Frontières, with European Commission funding, enables a man from Tanna island to finally talk to loved ones ten days after communications were cut off by Cyclone Pam in March 2015 (Photo: TSF, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Finance, Addis and the Sustainable Development Goals
News, 07 July 2015
Four workshop participants are sitting at a table, discussing and writing things down on post-it notes.
Adequate housing for all: bridging the gap in Sierra Leone
News, 04 April 2025
A group of men and women wearing masks stand around a device being demonstrated by a man.
Energy enabling green development and recovery in Kitui County, Kenya
… County government to develop their mandated County Energy Plan .  Building on that work, and funded by UK PACT, this project will see … against climate impacts while being financially and socially sustainable – the types of solutions that will attract progressive … County will feed into a separate national initiative to strengthen capacity on energy design and delivery for all of Kenya's counties. What …
Project, 16 February 2022
Women hoeing a field.
Building a women-led community climate movement
Article, 03 December 2020
Artisanal and small-scale mining stakeholders in Tanzania explore solutions to key challenges (Photo: Steve Aanu/IIED)
Using dialogue to extract sustainable solutions for artisanal and small-scale mining
… marginalised communities. Recognising the sector's role in advancing sustainable development is a major step forward. Recent initiatives … Local dialogue partners need sufficient resource and institutional capacity support to grasp and implement the methodology IIED's support … resources to build institutional capacity. IIED has a key role in building capacity of the LLG and in steering design, and possibly …
Insight, 26 February 2018
A beach with cows
Supporting LDCs to develop long-term strategies
Project, 16 April 2020
The UN poster showing all 17 sustainable development goals (Image: UN photo)
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): IIED and the new global agenda on sustainable development
… Animated explainer: the SDGs in three minutes The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , which replace the Millennium Development … relevant to the local contexts, the group aims to build ambition and capacity for sustainable development in less developed countries.    … Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): IIED and the new global agenda on …
Article, 15 March 2016
From decentralised finance to legal tools, this map showing real examples of innovative governance from around the world highlights seven tried-and-tested methods of empowering local institutions (Image: IIED)
Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development
Article, 24 November 2015