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A gold-plated "supercar". London's newspapers recently reported on a Saudi Arabian prince who had four gold-plated sports cars flown to London for his use while on holiday (Photo: Alexandre Prévot, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Critical theme: tackling inequality and unsustainable consumption
… provide a platform to share ideas on a new economic model to tackle climate change and protect the environment. Kenner's presentation reviewed the … additional tax revenues gained could be used to fund renewables or adaptation measures. After the event, Kenner wrote a blog on defining …
Event, 20 April 2016
Cover for G02743.pdf
Innovative approaches in participatory research, on-farm conservation and the management of agricultural biodiversity in Europe
… European agriculture faces some serious challenges from climate change, environmental degradation and rural social decline. In this …
Publication, 01 April 2010
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TAMD Addis Ababa Feb 23-26, 2015 Workshop Report
Publication, 01 March 2015
Annual report 2006/07
… 2006/07 Annual Report from IIED's Publications Library In 2007, as climate change rose to the top of every agenda, IIED played a major role in shaping the global debate. IIED consistently argued that adaptation to climate change is hugely urgent and this year the …
Page, 16 April 2008
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
… This video exploring the impact of climate change on pastoralists living in the drylands is one of many videos IIED … stresses in the area, including pilot climate mitigation and adaptation planning processes, pilot investments in municipalities, and … Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity …
Article, 17 December 2012
Europe’s food security at risk without bigger role for farmers in policy and research
… Europe's food security in a changing climate will depend on farmers being central participants in … the basis of food supplies and agriculture’s ability to adapt to climate change is disappearing because the dominant policies favour large …
News, 11 May 2011
Women in Ahmedabad, India, collect rubbish from 6,656 households that make up the slum area of Juna Vadaj, illustrating the energy and innovation that informal economies can bring to the sustainable development agenda (Photo: Pritpal Randhawa for STEPs)
Development frontiers
… . Put simply, the world faces a set of 'wicked problems' such as climate change, poverty and fragility. They are 'wicked' because the solutions … the complexity of the problem, but it isn't clear what will move institutions in a similar direction unless we resort to some kind of …
Insight, 21 March 2016
Rosalind Goodrich's tweet about developing communications strategies (Image: IIED)
Planning for communication starts at research design stage
… as IIED, is that you do research to make a difference and promote change. And this will only happen if people buy into what you find out. … being coded as environmental expenditure (including biodiversity and climate adaptation in this case), and how this relates to policy development, …
Insight, 27 March 2017
Urban environment Argentina. Photo: Mark Edwards
Urbanization: A double-edged sword for women
… These issues – along with climate change, waste, water and other topics -- are explored in the April 2013 … the different responses of low-income tenants and squatters to adaptation to climate change in Khulna, Bangladesh; The subjects of …
News, 10 April 2013
Bolivian family farming organisations show a poster about their award-winning coffee business development activity at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Modern food systems to emerge in new decade of family farming
… helping these men and women farmers to adapt to, and mitigate, climate change – a modern solution to problems cause by an outdated industrial … banks Promoting gender equity in farm and forest rights and institutions, and Youth strategies to avoid outward migration – …
Insight, 04 April 2019