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Recovering wildlife populations in Namibia are largely attributed to policies that give local people rights to benefit from wildlife on their land (Photo: Ronald Woan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
There’s justice in the battle for biodiversity 
Insight, 28 June 2018
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
Article, 15 June 2020
Group of seated women looking in the same direction
‘Building back better’ means ‘building back fairer’ after COVID-19
… A  webinar  co-hosted by IIED and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) earlier this month during London Climate … Building back ‘fairer’ means explicitly bringing dimensions of justice into a post-COVID-19 world. When the webinar’s panellists were … Climate change … Gender … Poverty …
Insight, 31 July 2020
A traditional dance festival attracts tourists in Romania's Maramures Nature Park. The park was designed as a multifunctional protected landscape and was zoned to reflect both environmental priorities and economic needs of local people (Photo: Radu Pop/UNDP, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Equity, justice and ecosystem services: what do we mean?
… that have been tended to be excluded because of gender, ethnicity, poverty and/or other social factors. In plain English all three terms – … been improvements over time. Not least because perceptions of equity change over time. Where do we go from here? In terms of REDD+, we hope … in Payments for Ecosystem Services ,  Unai Pascual, Basque Centre for Climate Change What is human wellbeing? A locally driven, …
Insight, 11 May 2015
Woman holding a shovel to the ground in a cropped field.
IIED's best of 2021: blogs
… by [COVID-19] restrictions on movement. 3 Locally-led adaption to climate change: the start of a 10-year learning journey January : In early 2021, … significant benefits for climate, nature and people. 5 Reducing urban poverty – lessons not learnt? August : Around one billion people are …
Article, 23 December 2021
A fruit bat
Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an environmental issue
… against the goals will be assessed; the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will assess whether the commitments for 2020 laid out in … which, while nice to have, appear largely irrelevant to mainstream poverty alleviation and development efforts. And we’ve all heard stories …
Insight, 29 April 2019
Prakash Mathema speaking at the opening ceremony of the 8th annual conference on community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA8) held in Kathmandu, Nepal in April 2014 (Photo: IIED)
Q&A: Helping the poorest nations with development goals
… This week's climate summit in New York is one of a few remaining stepping stones to the internationally binding agreement to tackle climate change expected to be agreed at a UN summit in Paris next year. At the … pathways, and pursuing options for addressing our vulnerabilities, poverty and lack of capabilities, especially in the face of the daunting …
Article, 19 September 2014
The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)
Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
… in 2016. Decisions taken at the 2015 Financing for Development and climate change conferences started to take effect. LDCs needed advice and … as well as food security, local governance, water, and energy poverty in the Sahel. Ms. Denton has written articles on energy poverty, …
Article, 03 August 2015
The community owners of a furniture factory pose for a photo
Locally controlled forest enterprises are the whole enchilada
… Adding value  But the interest is not only in that UCFAS reduces poverty by distributing profits (albeit supported by some very … by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), is helping mitigate climate change – although both are important points. Rather, it is that UCFAS, …
Insight, 10 September 2018
An association of farmers in northeast Myanmar carries out value chain analysis of elephant foot yam (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Strengthening producer organisations is key to making finance inclusive and effective
… microfinance is rarely at a scale that can lift people out of poverty. Microfinance does, however, help to build individual capacities … too high. The challenge is to build strong producer organisations and change the perceptions of all involved. NP: What are the underlying … in sustainable development and food security and to address climate change. CIFOR leads FTA in partnership with Bioversity …
Article, 12 March 2019