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This week in Myanmar, pictured, the Forest Farm Facility is funding a national exchange between forest and farm producer groups and many other producer groups (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter
… focus on just one aim, such as agricultural land use, or mitigating climate change, or producing timber or water etc, but in achieving all … water and construction materials) alongside global public goods (climate change mitigation, biodiversity etc). These smallholders are at …
Insight, 24 March 2014
A busy side street in the settlement of Dharavi
Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
… urban populations. Data to measure progress on the Paris Agreement on climate change also operates at this national level. Implementing …
Insight, 25 February 2020
Business models for sustainable development
… Now, as forests become flashpoints for conflict and a focus for climate concerns, community forestry could be coming into its own. … groups and assesses the performance of different business models in delivering positive outcomes for rural development and economic …
Article, 10 May 2010
Langrug informal settlement, South Africa, May 2014 (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Introduction to urban poverty
… at high risk of disasters and with risk levels increasing because of climate change. Most definitions and measurements of poverty take none …
Project, 09 September 2014
New paradigm for African agriculture sees sustainable intensification in a new light
… ways, which mean more pollution, less biodiversity and more climate change, we can choose to intensify farming in a sustainable way … and accessibility. The report outlines four principles essential in delivering the ambitious objectives of sustainable intensification. …
News, 18 April 2013
The sale of matoke in a market near Fort Portal, Uganda: green growth planning must take account of the informal economy (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Does green growth miss the majority?
… the poorest by safeguarding the local environment, stabilising the climate and increasing their access to affordable and renewable energy, …
Insight, 18 February 2016
Meceburi Forest, near Nampula, Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
The Musketeers of development
… that can't necessarily be separated: food, energy, water, health and climate change. By securing water supply and soil quality, they are an …
Insight, 16 July 2014
Local forest workers in Cambodia, one of the regions studied for a new report (Photo: Frontier Cambodia Forest via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Four ways to support locally controlled forestry and benefit people and the planet
… food, energy, water and income and help to stabilise our changing climate," says Duncan Macqueen, principal researcher in IIED's Forest …
News, 19 May 2014
REDD+: a win-win deal is possible!
… financing alone will not foot the annual bill. According to the Climate change: Financing Global Forests review it will reach US $17 – … in reforestation and forestation projects. The UN Conference on Climate Change in Durban needs to deliver further progress on REDD+ in …
Insight, 17 November 2011
Woman collects water for irrigation in Selingue, Mali. Photo: Khanh Tran-Thanh
Ensuring water is equitably allocated and governed
… water supplies on international rivers in the face of uncertain climate change. But once stored how will water be allocated? How will …
Project, 05 August 2013