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Uganda food lab participants add their names to a declaration that came out of the lab discussions (Photo: Nimrod Bagonza)
Food Change Labs tackle complex issues with the whole system in the room
… There is a paradox in many places around the world: regions rich in natural … for a healthy, productive food system?  Hivos and IIED have run Food Change Labs in three countries, and are starting on a fourth. Our Food … to depleted soils and a national food system that is vulnerable to climate change and crop diseases on the one hand, and malnutrition (due …
Insight, 30 January 2019
Indigeonous communities join government officials, NGOs and academics to participate in a ridge-to-reef mapping workshop in Cagayan de Oro City to identify threats to the forest and environment ecosystem (Photo: Horacio Marcos C. Mordeno, MindaNews, Creative Commons via Flickr)
International Disaster and Risk Conference 2016: key resources
Article, 28 August 2016
On a field trip to Dhamrai, course participants learned about the typical costs for installing and operating solar irrigation pumps to provide off-grid irrigation. (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Enabling developing countries to effectively manage climate finance
News, 13 May 2016
The front cover of IIED's 2016/17 annual report (Image: IIED)
IIED's 2016/17 annual report highlights the institute's impact
… IIED's 2016/17 annual report shows how the institute is delivering impact at both local and international level, and across a … key achievements during the year. It sets out how IIED is supporting change, from generating important evidence-based research, to supporting … The report describes projects that have helped to deliver climate finance, empower urban communities, give voice to women …
News, 17 October 2017
Cover for G03447.pdf
Helping national legislators take on global climate change
… supporting Ghana’s parliament in building its awareness around climate change decision making; and strengthening the capacity of both members … countries like Ghana, MPs — and their staff — could translate between local, national and global issues. … Climate change … Helping national legislators take on global climate change …
Publication, 01 October 2012
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
IIED's best of 2016: blogs
… Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development February: Our most-read blog of … right, but also essential in order to deliver genuinely sustainable change. Hawley's blog reviewed 'Why women will save the planet ', a new … na mwenye mwana" (You have to be part of the dance). The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend? …
Article, 28 December 2016
Many flags
IIED and partner events at COP25
Event, 02 December 2019
The Retiro district of Buenos Aires features affluent shopping and business areas close to a large shanty town where many homes don't have running water (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Urbanisation and the environment
… It is hard to say whether urbanisation is environmentally beneficial or … and environment are also closely linked to our cities and climate change work, including that summarised in books published with the …
Project, 16 July 2015
Political leaders, experts and civil society representatives from the Least Developed Countries (Image: IIED)
What do the Least Developed Countries want from COP21?
News, 25 November 2015
People visiting a village with solar panels
Helping parliaments across the Southern African Customs Union region address climate change
Project, 17 December 2012