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Solar panels, such as these in Bhutan, are benefiting millions of energy-poor households (Photo: Richard Furlong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Turning up the volume: five insights into aggregating finance for expanding off grid energy investment
… of households without energy access are typically ones that have weak policy and regulatory environments; energy-poor consumers usually have … customers. Clare Shakya ([email protected]) is director of IIED's Climate Change research group ; Rebecca Byrnes is a legal research and …
Insight, 03 November 2017
Farmers sort tomatoes in Ethiopia.
How small-scale farmers make markets work for them
… farmers should contribute to food security, cut poverty and adapt to climate change. Much of the advice sees small-scale farmers as entrepreneurs who … at the borders of state institutions and legal regulations. Spaces in policy making are opening up for farmers to have their say, and the book …
Insight, 28 November 2012
A traditional farmer selects seeds in the Eastern Himalayas, India. (Photo: Ruchi Pant/Ecoserve)
Making the business case for biodiversity — in an instant
… make sure that biodiversity concerns are at the heart of development policy, legislation, plans and projects in each country. It is timely as … and food security and strengthen communities' ability to adapt to climate change? Members of the project say this approach has helped them to …
Insight, 10 March 2014
IIED researchers in Uganda: "IIED works with small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs), municipal governments, pastoral communities, representatives of urban poor federations, smallholder farming groups, and other poorly represented interests" (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Reflections on my time as IIED director
… debates , and making sure we thought through the implications of climate change for work across all our programmes. Saleemul Huq led this … the necessary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, and urgent need for adaptation, and building resilience.    We now need to do something …
Insight, 05 March 2015
Coral Reef. Economists at the BioEcon conference Credit: Magnus Manske (creative commons)
The value of valuing ecosystem services
… is a need to understand what determines the costs of agriculture adaptation to climate change, and see who wins and who loses? Perhaps the interest is to …
Insight, 28 September 2012
Local voice, global forest, local forest, global voice
… a vital component in any realistic strategy going forward to address climate change mitigation and adaptation. So who is this group and where has it come from? Global …
Insight, 17 January 2011
Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)
Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management
… or which deliver public goods. Both PES and CST involve a reward to change behaviour. While CSTs benefit primarily the person receiving the … land practices in watersheds to provide cleaner water, and increased climate resilience in supply chains by planting trees in small coffee … some Latin American countries, PES remain   a minor instrument in the policy portfolio – in terms of scale of implementation and political …
Project, 26 April 2016
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IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)
… researcher Krystyna Swiderska. Related reading: Ecosystem-based adaptation: a handbook for EbA in mountain, dryland and coastal … results from the Potato Park and the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment, Peru The Darwin Initiative – past, present and future …
Event, 17 November 2018
The star anise fruit resembles stars: the Thach Ngoa group has five hectares of Illicium verum trees ready for harvest (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Star spice in Vietnam's forests
… system, in a way that will help them both mitigate and adapt to climate change. Building locally-controlled forest business models of this type … build membership-based producer organisations. Mainstreaming towards policy reform Working with farmers unions to achieve forest ends is an …
Insight, 05 August 2015
A girl studies under the light of a rechargeable solar lamp
Improving people’s access to sustainable energy
… Developing this kind of evidence also facilitates advocacy in the policy arena and catalyses change in policy and practice. By building dialogue and problem-solving … jobs, gain energy independence and help to both limit and adapt to climate change. An IIED report urges developing nations to take …
Project, 26 October 2012