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A field of bare earth covered with rows of dried stalks.
Climate, health and urban informal economies – stories of need and change
… of work by IIED and partners exploring responses to occupational, environmental and public health risks faced by workers in the informal … plans to separate more waste, especially compostable material. This community-based pilot could remove ‘middle-men’, who pay too little, and generate …
Article, 07 June 2022
Coral reefs provide us with goods worth hundreds of billions of dollars but are in decline. Copyright: 2004 Richard Ling
How to protect our oceans: use more carrots
… other resources ensuring broad participation of the communities and community-based organisations promoting transparency and accountability (an … conservation); and writing off ‘perverse’ subsidies that encourage environmental degradation. Adding PES and other incentives into the …
Insight, 01 November 2013
Deforestation in Kalimantan, Indonesia, which has been pledged US$1 billion pledge of REDD+ finance from Norway (Photo: Josh Estey/Aus Aid, via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
What's next for REDD+?
… of local development, which means tackling both the forest sector management challenges as well as addressing the need to produce more … emission-reducing activities soon, and ready to do performance based payments. Soon a large number will be ready to get a fair price … countries made in Warsaw, safeguards must be in place to prevent environmental or social harm arising from REDD+ projects. What's missing …
Insight, 29 April 2014
Deforestation and fire ravage a forest area in Uganda (Photo: Paul Hatanga)
Random trials in Uganda to show if payments for ecosystems services really work
… One way to promote sustainability is to pay villagers to protect local environmental resources, such as forests, because of the wider benefits … documents. This raises the risk of land related conflicts. To build community-level confidence and ensure payments would go to rightful land … improved forest governance and accountability, and engaging in forest-based enterprises. Within six months, when our research ends, we will be …
Insight, 10 March 2014
Meceburi Forest, Mozambique: a young woman harvests casava (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?
… a wide range of vibrant local organisations are generating values not based solely on the market. Initiatives like these speak to SDG 15 (Life … inequalities' (Goal 10) will remain a pipedream as long as forest-based resources are ransacked by elites. In Myanmar military elites, … of Tropical Foresters Conference at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies …
Insight, 11 February 2016
Mogadishu attracts people from all over the country, making it the second-fastest growing city in the world, with a 4% annual rate of urbanisation growth (Photo: Baron Reznik, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The challenge of finding money to build shelter in Mogadishu’s informal settlements
… Often, they lose their income source when fleeing conflicts or environmental disasters. Thus, the influx of people arriving daily into …
Insight, 28 January 2019
A forest near Ngon village, Ebolowa district, in Cameroon, which will host an event to bring together Chinese, African and international stakeholders to discuss trade and investment impacting Africa's forests (Photo: Photo by Ollivier Girard for Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Creative Commons, via Flickr)
China-Africa forest governance strengthened with Cameroon event
… and research institutes from China, Africa and the international community in dialogue on this fast-changing  issue, based on up-to-date research generated by IIED, partners and others, as … presented guidelines to help Chinese companies with their social and environmental conduct overseas and enhance the sustainability of the …
News, 19 June 2015
Group of participants stand for a picture during the International Forest Connect workshop in Nepal in February 2013.
Forest Connect
… the consequences of their actions – which incentivises social and environmental concern. But their impact is often neglected and … society/private sector facilitators and government extensionists based on the above Strengthening a community of practice familiar with methods such as market analysis and …
Project, 12 September 2013
Biocultural products of the Potato Park in Peru, an example of the goods and services that can be produced by indigenous peoples to provide income and enhance incentives to sustain biocultural heritage (Photo: ANDES)
Consultation: designing a new biocultural heritage indication
… heritage (BCH) indication scheme for biocultural, heritage-based products. Existing tools Some existing intellectual property tools … for example, increased revenues and strengthened social cohesion and environmental stewardship, but the communities were not able to register … heritage', accompanied by the name of the relevant indigenous group, community or territory. It could be applied to goods and services that …
Insight, 20 August 2015
A fish market in Vĩnh Trường, Vietnam. More than 300 million people are directly or indirectly employed by the fisheries sector, and must be addressed by the oceans SDG (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
A sustainable ocean by 2030
… year brings in a new era for the world's oceans as the global community signs up to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Goal 14 … are reversed, millions of livelihoods could be lost and many ocean-based economies, particularly small island developing states (SIDS) … Essam Yassin Mohammed ([email protected]) is senior researcher in environmental economics in the Sustainable Markets Group . …
Insight, 14 September 2015