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Two women sitting down and speaking to each other.
Sustaining coffee producers’ agency in the context of COVID-19
… North Star, an award-winning coffee roastery, academy and coffee shop based in Leeds, in the north of the UK. Promoting the agency of women … use the price paid to producers, as well as the production costs and environmental standards. There may be other metrics to assess how … Natural resource management …
Insight, 04 August 2020
Pits at Bekily sapphire mine in Toliara are on average 18 meters deep (Photo: Andry Rabemanantsoa/GIZ PAGE Madagascar)
Improving governance in Madagascar's artisanal and small-scale mining sector from the ground up
… remains troubled by major challenges. As an informal activity, its environmental footprint can be negative, with a detrimental effect on … that, instead of starting with a focus on national stakeholders based in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo, the process would focus on … participatory budgets to manage mining revenues taking into account community priorities  Plans were developed for decentralised 'one-stop …
Project, 08 March 2017
Biodiversity illustration
A brief history of biodiversity at IIED
… 1990s the main focus came from IIED’s ground-breaking programme on environmental economics, which was a new discipline at the time. It … wildlife policy and commissioned IIED to undertake a review of community-based approaches to wildlife management. The resulting publication Whose …
Article, 16 August 2013
a young man walks along an irrigation channel
Jobs, nature and the Green New Deal: lessons from the global South
Insight, 30 January 2020
An irrigation pond.
CBA14: From local solutions to global action
Event, 20 September 2020
A woman on a protest march holds up a sign that says "enough"
Our progress towards being an anti-racist organisation
… in our organisation and in the international development and environmental sectors within which we work. We recognise the sustainable … address intersecting oppressions that discriminate against people based on class, gender, sexuality and ability. To do this, bold steps … team , our race and racism working group and individuals in our wider community, with the full support of our board of trustees . We will call …
Article, 15 December 2021
Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… whose tenure has been secured through TIOC, as a holistic solution to environmental protection and social development. Instead of a REDD+ … challenge of representation is complicated on two fronts. First, many community-level organisations are not yet fully registered or legalised. … registration at community-level. Secondly, many of the community-based forest farm producer organisations have yet to develop their …
Insight, 25 November 2014
Durban Beach, South Africa (Photo: Darren Glanville, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Investing in natural capital to deliver the SDGs and reduce poverty
Insight, 17 July 2017
People participating in a workshop.
Development and Climate Days 2020
Event, 02 December 2020
Two women holding jars of quinoa
Nature 4 Development: improving evidence and dialogue on biodiversity and development
… change. But until recently, biodiversity loss has been seen as an environmental problem, not high on national and international political … as elephants and rhinos potentially going extinct. The development community, understandably, fails to see the connection between the fate … outcomes, without undermining biodiversity.  Working with the Nature-based Solutions Initiative at the University of Oxford, we are reviewing …
Project, 06 May 2020