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A farmer in the Potato Park, Peru (Photo: Adam Kerby)
A marriage to save the earth: Farmers and researchers innovate to conserve biodiversity
… changes to how they live and farm in order to adapt to a changing climate. They have innovated to survive, changing the ways they support … and their external partners, so they are protected and saved for adaptation in the future.  Successful initiatives, such as those in … and science bring to the partnership, and to continue to adapt and change with the times. More details Smallholder Innovation for …
Insight, 07 October 2014
Biodiversity illustration
A brief history of biodiversity at IIED
… biodiversity work ranges from agricultural biodiversity to apes, from climate change to conservation, and from market mechanisms to mainstreaming. It … sharing, social assessment of protected areas, and ecosystem-based adaptation. Read our biodiversity related blogs, news and articles , or …
Article, 16 August 2013
Picture of a bamboo forest canopy.
The first people’s manifesto for democracy and sustainable development
… needs to be cherished if it is to thrive and adapt to pressures that climate change, resource scarcity and major demographic shifts will create.   …
News, 08 June 2012
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
Insight, 13 May 2016
Cover for 17035IIED.pdf
A sustainable future for the polar regions
… The spectre of change is galvanising debate about the future of the poles. Climatic … Policy and planning …
Publication, 01 April 2008
Global network to help African farmers navigate globalised markets
… of uncertainties in the global economy? Can international companies change their business models to include small-scale producers in fair … of finance into developing countries for adapting to and mitigating climate change provide new opportunities for smallholders?” “For too long this …
News, 02 December 2009
The CBD COP13 logo. IIED and partners will be at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December
IIED at the biodiversity COP in Cancun
… and enhancing agrobiodiversity for food security in the face of climate change, and explore novel approaches for customary sustainable use and … and the impacts of biocultural innovations on food security and adaptation. Two women farmers from China presented the Stone Village …
Event, 04 December 2016
The Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation secures houses, sanitation and land rights for members. Communication and participation are central to the way it works (Photo: Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Creative Commons via Flickr)
Do you have the power to influence your own life?
… an impact. When it comes to solving the world's complex problems – climate change adaptation, poverty eradication – we need everyone to be involved, …
Insight, 06 March 2015
Knowledge programme publications
… in areas ranging from poverty reduction and food security to climate change adaptation. Small-scale farmer strategies to make markets work This …
Article, 14 May 2013
Setting fire to outdated thinking on biomass energy
… energy itself could enable developing countries to fight poverty and climate change, create jobs and gain energy independence. The need to adopt a … for national energy security and climate change mitigation and adaptation. It would develop clear institutional oversight with policy …
Insight, 11 April 2011