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Rows of small dishes containing various types of vegetable seeds, including beans and grains
Madagascar needs agroforestry businesses in its response to climate change
… hillsides are almost completely devoid of natural tree cover. A few community-planted pines and eucalypts dot the slopes, but local people … leaders, organised by the Forest and Farm Facility . This training, led by IIED, was in risk management and sustainable business incubation. …
Insight, 27 September 2019
Maria Lourdes Alvarez is a warden monitoring fishing activity at Decalve Marine Sanctuary, a Marine Protected Area in the Calamianes Islands in the Philippines (Photo: Asuncion Sia/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Gender and biodiversity conservation – progress and future directions
… a series of events  interrogating gender in relation to international initiatives. As part of the series, earlier this month we focused on the … policy has traditionally been the realm of men and this had led to historical exclusions of women in conservation. While Flora and … Kenya, Mara North Conservancy in Kenya and the three generations of Community Forestry in Nepal. For each case study, he reflected on the …
Insight, 29 November 2018
An image of an artisanal fisher in Kiribati casting his net into the water; 90 per cent of all fishers are small-scale or artisanal (Photo: Quentin Hanich/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Towards an inclusive blue economy
… chance to dig into the excellent work on oceans and coastal fisheries led by IIED's Essam Yassin Mohammed . What is the 'blue economy'? 'Blue …
Insight, 01 June 2016
View of Harpan village of Panchase – the upstream of Phewa Lake (Photo: Amit Poudyal/IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Nepal
Project, 26 June 2018
A farmer in southern Mozambique carries greens back to his family from a project that has been backed by the Climate Investment Fund, which is working with the African Development Bank on a pilot program for climate resilience (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Climate finance for sustainable development: regional forum
Insight, 28 August 2015
Films shot two decades apart reveal environmental recovery and improved livelihoods in Africa
… A new film and book, to be launched in London on 5 October, show how community participation in development projects has led to successful agricultural change and environmental recovery in … themselves," he adds. "We can be confident that sustained positive initiatives are underway. It is crucial for governments and development …
News, 01 October 2010
Ibadan, Nigeria, a city that has experienced devastating high winds and flooding (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
How risk accumulates in African cities – and ways to break the cycle
… how knowledge of risk can lead to action to reduce it. It needs community organisations, local government officials and politicians, and the academic community to work together. A meeting in Ibadan, Nigeria, brought … , destroyed 2,400 structures, displaced more than 30,000 people, and led to at least 11 deaths from drowning.  Putting knowledge into action …
Insight, 30 January 2017
A farmer in Bangladesh
Upscaling agroecological practices
… action-research initiative grew directly out of the workshop and was led by Practical Action and IIED, focusing on upscaling organic …
Project, 29 January 2017
A herbalist shares information on medicinal and food plants growing in Kaya Kinondo Sacred Coastal Forest in Kenya
Smallholder innovation for resilience (SIFOR)
Project, 16 August 2013
Delegates discuss the Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund at the Bangladesh workshop. The fund is part of work to enhance the effectiveness of incentive-based fisheries management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Conservation trust fund proposed to help manage Bangladesh fish stocks
… feared a collapse of the fish stock in the near future, which led the Bangladeshi government to declare five sites in the fishing … for selection are complex and less transparent for the fishing community. This will allow the fishers to view the compensation …
News, 25 June 2015