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Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
IIED's best of 2015: blogs
… in Mozambique. If food security is the answer, is it time to change the question? February: The growing number of people living in … than it is indeed time to change the way we think about food. Will climate change render the SDGs impossible? June: The 5th Assessment … Dodman, director of IIED's Human Settlements Group, reported on the key issues Where city authorities are able to generate rigorous and …
Article, 22 December 2015
A fishing boat and cruise liner cross paths outside Zakynthos Harbour (Photo: Robert Wallace, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The blue economy and maritime security in Africa: why now?
… peace, security and stability, and to make African maritime space the key driver for sustainable economic development". This is a crucial … of waste, or natural disasters may pose a more significant risk. Climate change and implications for (in)security  While I do not want to …
Insight, 13 October 2016
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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012
… public. Watch these videos to find out more about the conference’s key themes. World Leader’s Dialogue IIED’s Director, Camilla Toulmin, … Using Ecosystems and Traditional Knowledge to Help People Adapt to Climate Change: Building the Evidence Base This workshop will evaluate the …
Event, 16 August 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
… Goals (SDGs)  and the breakthrough global legal treaty on combating climate change – the Paris Agreement  in 2015 have set the stage for a 'new … is already set out, as David Dodman outlined in his comments . The key question is whether the conference in October can still be used to …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Annual report 2009/10
… out the future to pay for the present. Featured project highlights Climate change Adaptation after Copenhagen:  in the Least Developed Countries, … their work. Going mainstream:  strategic environmental assessment – key to mainstreaming environment and development into policy – made …
Page, 21 October 2010
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
… had been broken down.  In the 1987 IIED annual report, it says "change is in the air… with the Brundtland Report Our Common Future … for four years, collecting household data on livelihoods, assets, climate, land use, water and livestock. This research became my PhD … Ced Hesse , Charles Lane, Ian Scoones and Richard Moorehead were key members of the team. We also engaged with the desertification …
Insight, 22 June 2015
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… the priorities of poorer communities. Users can also navigate to find key information about the institute and read stories about some of our … stocks due to the effects of habitat destruction, over-fishing and climate change. The animation produced by our Sustainable Markets Group  was …
Insight, 12 January 2015
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 … and Costa Rica through thorough literature review and interviews with key CST and PES researchers, identifying stakeholders and case studies ' …
Project, 26 April 2016
Business models for sustainable development
… values, while value distribution within the whole market chain is a key feature. Key factors of success Our research has identified a number … Now, as forests become flashpoints for conflict and a focus for climate concerns, community forestry could be coming into its own. … Up Additional resources Engineers against Poverty Channels for Change: Private Water and the Urban Poor Wilson & Zarsky Power to the …
Article, 10 May 2010