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Meceburi Forest, Mozambique: a young woman harvests casava (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?
… be boosted by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate agreement. SDGs for the trees Local forestry initiatives really … the Paris Agreement If the SDGs give us some useful levers, the Paris climate agreement gives us a boost to do something with them and scale … progress.    Meanwhile, as Paul Mason points out in PostCapitalism , climate-change deniers are perhaps less worrying than the fantasists who …
Insight, 11 February 2016
Shift power to people to preserve natural world, urges report
… systems that provide the clean water, food, medicines and stable climate that are essential for human well-being. "Biodiversity is being … without the social costs. Such approaches are critical for delivering on both conservation and poverty reduction objectives, but …
News, 08 October 2008
Lushoto, Tanzania: Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into agroforestry. Here a tree nursery group discusses the challenges and opportunities (Photo: P Kimeli/CCAFS)
Look beyond the trees: the SDGs will have to do more than just 'protect forests'
… heating, food and furniture. Forests help stabilise the planet's climate and water cycles, boost green economies through employment, …
Insight, 04 November 2014
Indigenous communities sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, near Cusco, Peru. Credit: Asociacion ANDES
Traditional innovation in farming is under threat
… not fit easily into policy frameworks. But its value will grow as the climate changes and population increases bring more mouths to feed. Yet … local innovation Governments and donors invest millions to deliver 'climate smart agriculture'. Yet indigenous farming practices already … that indigenous farmers have developed to adapt to changing climate, such as adding calcium carbonate to soil around potatoes (for …
Insight, 02 October 2013
Tom Pye helped redesign the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) newsletter, a monthly bulletin for people working on biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation (Image: PCLG)
A valuable learning experience
… and restoration of ecosystems to help people adapt to the impacts of climate change , for example restoration of mangrove forests to protect …
Insight, 19 April 2016
Richard Sandbrook Memorial Lecture
… the ‘wicked problems’ that get in the way of sustainable development. Delivering the lecture, Yolanda Kakabadse, president of the Worldwide … building inter-disciplinary partnerships, particularly across the climate change and biodiversity communities, as well as partnerships … has ignored finance for 20 years,” said Nick Robins, head of HSBC's Climate Change Centre of Excellence. But things are changing. “Social …
News, 23 March 2011
World leaders who sought the advice of IIED founder, who would have been 100 on 23 May 2014, included two US presidents, and several UK prime ministers and heads of state from Africa and Asia
100 years of Barbara Ward: IIED founder and champion of sustainable development
… levels. The institute is now helping to shape the global debates on climate change, natural resources, human settlements and sustainable … Mary Robinson ,  Connie Hedegaard , European Commissioner for Climate Action, and Christiana Figueres , executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Plans are currently being finalised for the 2014 event. …
Article, 23 May 2014
Environment and social justice must be at heart of policymaking, says international alliance
… three issues that are central to the sustainable development agenda: climate change, sustainable consumption and environmental economics. … onto pathways to sustainability. "Major challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and poverty are all tightly linked," …
News, 17 June 2007
IIED researchers in Uganda: "IIED works with small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs), municipal governments, pastoral communities, representatives of urban poor federations, smallholder farming groups, and other poorly represented interests" (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Reflections on my time as IIED director
… debates , and making sure we thought through the implications of climate change for work across all our programmes. Saleemul Huq led this process, making the case for why climate change matters hugely for sustainable development. So we ensured … in the organisation, whatever their focus, could see where and how climate fitted into their research portfolio. Indeed, it was becoming …
Insight, 05 March 2015
South Africans celebrate 'Vuvuzela Day': the World Forestry Congress in Durban will discuss critical forestry issues (Photo: Dundas Football Club, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Time to dust off the vuvuzelas
… Amazon in 2010. That’s a big deal in terms of contributions to climate change. Put another way, anybody expecting to solve the world's climate problems without involving the hundreds of millions of poor …
Insight, 04 September 2015