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Women cross a river
Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight
… Globally, forests are home to 1.3 billion indigenous peoples and other local communities … to IPLCs continues.   The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Paris climate agreement, and New York Declaration on Forests suggest change is needed for a cleaner, fairer future. The calls to ‘build back …
Insight, 14 July 2020
A woman miner in Tanzania, who features in a film on stories of change on artisanal and small-scale mining (Image: IIED)
Best of 2017: videos
… Showing the people who are creating change: artisanal mining Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is known … 23rd Conference of Parties (COP23) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn. One delegate provided a very personal view of … a 12-minute film profiling China's Stone Village, which is home to 220 Naxi ethnic families and is a living example of the value of …
Article, 12 January 2018
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Democratising forest business: a compendium of successful locally controlled forest business organisations
… Forests are home to 1.3 billion people, they have to cater to the multiple needs for … medicinal and cosmetic products, and recreation) and global goods (climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, hydrological and mineral …
Publication, 01 August 2015
Mumbai's Dharavi settlement has a thriving informal economy. The government's redevelopment schemes have been hit by controversy and stalled for more than a decade (Photo: Jon Hurd, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs don't adequately spell out cities' role in implementation
… sustainable or inclusive cities, or cities adapted to the effects of climate change. Or cities that are keeping their greenhouse-gas emissions to a … The concept of the common good and its importance for "our common home" – and for the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , finalised …
Insight, 12 October 2015
Fishermen offloading their morning catch from a fishing boat in Kalindi, West Bengal (Photo: Souvik Das Gupta, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Creating waves for small-scale fisheries
… discourse on sustainable ocean management. But the FAO meeting drove home the need for scaled-up action to ensure that small-scale fishers … small-scale fisheries into disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change planning Communities living on exposed coastlines are …
Insight, 17 November 2016
Group of people in discussion seated at a table
Tricky questions and frank discussions: a participatory forum on protracted displacement in Afghanistan
Insight, 10 June 2021
10 Downing St. creative commons, MOD
IIED responds to UK election outcome
… be anticipated yet, however IIED hopes that the SNP's ambitious climate plans will spur on the UK government. 2015 is a landmark year for climate change and sustainable development. The global community must seize the … a series of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies. By tackling this at home, the UK will be taken more seriously by world leaders when calling …
News, 08 May 2015
10 Downing St (Photo: Ministry of Defence, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED hopes new UK government will demonstrate leadership on inclusive citizenship and green prosperity
… be anticipated yet, however IIED hopes that the SNP's ambitious climate plans will spur on the UK government. 2015 is a landmark year for climate change and sustainable development. The global community must seize the … series of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies. By tackling this at home, the UK will be taken more seriously by world leaders when calling …
News, 07 May 2015
The slogan on a woman T-shirt in Kitwe, Zambia - emblazoned with 'Addressing water and sanitation challenges through city-wide partnerships' - highlights the community-led approach (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Local funds allow informal-settlement residents to shape development
… deficiencies in basic services, and to cope with the added demands of climate change and particularly the additional risks of flooding. But how is … a need for additional investment to address the problems arising from climate change. Much of the 'heavy lifting' of urban adaptation will be …
Insight, 01 November 2016
Hundreds of densely packed houses climb into the mountains
Dealing with COVID-19 in the towns and cities of the global South
Insight, 27 March 2020