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A woman in a yellow sari and wearing a facemask is standing in a field of crops. She is putting the plants into a bag tied around her waist.
Resilience through flexibility – the story of peri-urban agricultural workers in India
… the informal economy, while also helping to build their resilience to climate change. Kashi Damke: working in the fields and selling vegetables Kashi, … are lying on the field. I collect them, clean and then store them at home” – Kashi Damke Through her years of work, Kashi has been able to …
Article, 06 June 2022
A woman sits in the courtyard of a building, washing clothes in a small bowl.
Risks to health in informal settlements
Article, 09 June 2022
The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is one of the world's largest cities. It is surrounded by rivers and lies only a few metres above sea level. The urban poor living in flood-prone areas are most threatened by climate change (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
The IPCC and an urbanising planet
… In a marked change from previous IPCC Assessment reports, the Panel's Fifth … adaptation and the transformative changes needed to avoid dangerous climate change, as evidenced by the IPCC's Synthesis Report, Climate Change 2014 (PDF), released on 2 November 2014. The three IPCC … Climate change …
Insight, 06 November 2014
Blue, rather than green, is the dominant colour of planet earth (Photo: Google licence)
Why do I see blue when everyone else sees green?
Insight, 01 October 2014
The Stone Village Seed Park lies in the Himalayan foothills of Yunnan, Southwest China. It is the homeland of the ethnic minority Naxi people. 
Biocultural heritage territories film now in Spanish
News, 30 August 2016
A living room on the street, in Karachi, Pakistan (Photo: Fareena Chanda)
A picture of urban living
… diverse and full of contrast. It is true that towns and cities are home to some of the world's richest and most powerful people. But they … And they are particularly vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change, both of which can exacerbate the root causes of poverty and …
Insight, 30 October 2015
50 years
IIED at 50: protecting people and planet for half a century
… sustainable development movements, including the drives for global climate justice, grassroots sustainable urbanisation and an inclusive … Making sustainable development a reality – movements that inspire change As part of the birthday celebrations, episode 17 of our Make … voices shape the solutions. And we are tackling challenges closer to home: the need to develop a new narrative that decolonialises aid, …
Article, 08 June 2021
Bangladesh: mangrove island reflects people's creativitiy
… the local farmers from planting fruit or vegetable trees. Adapting to change The local community is adapting to these challenges in many ways. … which includes solar power and internet access, also functions as a home for the local administration. An early warning system including SMS … ecosystems are fiercely determined to adapt to extreme conditions and climate variability and change and highly creative in finding ways to do …
Insight, 28 March 2011
Housing in informal settlement.
Getting housing back onto the development agenda in the time of COVID-19
… from those of day labourers or street vendors, or those employed at home. Seasonal or circular migrants have other priorities still. So how … the scale and scope of upgrading. Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation can be integrated into the upgrading; there is so much …
Insight, 02 October 2020
Plan Vivo partners at a conference in Sweden commit to actively engage in the implementation and accountability of the SDGs (Photo: Plan Vivo Foundation)
The SDGs speak and we like what we hear
Insight, 15 October 2015