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Two women carrying farming tools
IIED's best of 2019: videos
… net zero emissions by 2050. They call for the international community to support LDC-driven initiatives to deliver concrete action … treaty – the first of its kind – could end lawlessness that threatens conservation of the high seas might not sound like the ideal subject for … a recorded opening address to the 13th international conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA13) , which took place …
Insight, 06 January 2020
A Rwandan farmer checks his coffee beans. A banana tree is visible behind him.
Rwanda: test case on international commitment to financing climate change adaptation?
… include providing better weather information to farmers or water conservation measures. The next priority after this is to address those … there is sufficient interest and commitment in the international community to use a national tool such as this one remains unclear.   … become an early test for both the commitment of the international community and for how national mechanisms such as this one work in …
Insight, 06 March 2013
Isilda Nhantumbo, Bright Sibale, and Duncan Macqueen exchange ideas at a Forest Governance Learning Group Learning Event in Mozambique. Photo: Leianne Rolington
Private sector involvement with REDD+
… such as  free, prior and informed consent , the principle that a community has the right to give or withhold its consent to proposed …
Project, 12 September 2013
Cover for G01802.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 11 A board game for financial management training
Publication, 01 January 1988
Green shoots and REDD herrings
… which analyses this, notes that small gains have been made for community control since 2002 in countries like Cameroon, Tanzania and … is a much better bet. This means decision-making by smallholders, community groups, forest-dependent people and other local groupings for … also risks that REDD schemes may result in governments, companies, conservation NGOs or speculators carving up forestlands, and pursuing …
Insight, 15 October 2009
Logs from a community-managed forest in Ethiopia.
Rio+20: Forests form important foundation for a green economy
Insight, 26 June 2012
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) of Bangladesh won the Earth Care Award 2012 for spearheading the Least Developed Countries Fund project 'Community-based adaptation to climate change through coastal afforestation in Bangladesh' (Photo: UNDP Adaptation Learning Mechanism)
Making the climate fund fit for purpose
… Nations as the poorest and weakest members of the international community. LDCs typically do not have the institutional or human …
Insight, 27 August 2015
Cover for G00428.pdf
87 Case Study3 Using Analysis and Advocacy to Bring About Policy Change in Indonesia
… resource management efforts that were part of existing integrated conservation and development programmes (ICDPs) in the Nusa Tenggara … engaging in agriculture within the protected area. Small experimental community forestry projects seemed insignificant in the face of the tide … of protected forest management to the district level, community participation was being actively restricted by the national …
Publication, 01 January 1970
High-tech trawlers in the Faroe Islands. Ninety-five per cent of this tiny nation's exports is made up of fish (Photo: antonalfred, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Turning the tide: creating incentives for sustainable oceans
… agencies, civil society, financial institutions, the scientific community, the private sector and others will discuss practical …
Insight, 17 January 2017
The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)
Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
Article, 03 August 2015