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An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… our Sustainable Markets Group  was also designed to promote an online community, FishNet, created to bring together people with an interest in … vlogs by IIED senior fellow Saleemul Huq at the 8th Annual Community Based Adaptation Conference  in Nepal in April and at the UNFCCC climate talks (COP20) in …
Insight, 12 January 2015
Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)
Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management
… Over the past 20 years market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) and … this experience, gathering inputs from the research and academic community to inform practitioners and policymakers about what works and … workshop in September 2016, as a side event to the BioEcon XVIII Conference in Cambridge. This workshop will bring together …
Project, 26 April 2016
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
… had been broken down.  In the 1987 IIED annual report, it says "change is in the air… with the Brundtland Report Our Common Future … for four years, collecting household data on livelihoods, assets, climate, land use, water and livestock. This research became my PhD … fairer, more sustainable planet Maintaining a values-driven approach, based on partnership and respect , understanding that you can learn as …
Insight, 22 June 2015
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams
… resources their populations rely on to survive. In the context of climate change, energy and food production were high on the international agenda in Paris at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21). They are also often the driving force … 27 November 2015, and chaired by Senegal's ministry for water. It is based on the 'Guidelines for the development of water infrastructure in …
News, 16 December 2015
Non-literate farmer filmmakers help save biodiversity
… The IIED, Deccan Development Society and village-based women's groups called sanghams teamed up to study ways to sustain … to increase people’s livelihoods options and ability to adapt to climate change. It also created stable local markets for marginalised … for the programme of work on agricultural biodiversity that the Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity approved …
News, 14 May 2008
Business models for sustainable development
… distinguishes it from its competitors. Two broad areas for possible adaptation and innovation of a business model are production and … become flashpoints for conflict and a focus for climate concerns, community forestry could be coming into its own. Collective ownership … modern energy services in the Niger Delta via small-scale community-based initiatives. The immediate objective is to catalyse the …
Article, 10 May 2010