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Aerial natural landscape.
From New Zealand to Africa: managing land use trade-offs
… drives their decisions and incentivise and support them to manage environmental, social and economic trade-offs in these decisions, … have long invested in trying to work out how to minimise the environmental impacts of agriculture and forestry production while … the challenge of achieving zero hunger in Africa while reducing inequality and conserving ecosystems through interdisciplinary research. …
Insight, 04 March 2022
Vegetable garden in the middle of a city street
Argentinian city Rosario wins award for urban sustainability
… with funding for projects that tackle climate change and urban inequality.  ‘Resilient Rosario’ The winning project, ' Sustainable Food … programme is a model of how to integrate social, economic and environmental dimensions, showing what can be achieved when city-level … Brazil and Mexico to establish new models of coalition-building and governance through five 'urban labs'. 'Transforming cities, transforming …
News, 08 July 2021
Woman holding a shovel to the ground in a cropped field.
IIED's best of 2021: blogs
… and enhanced biodiversity for millennia are now threatened by environmental policies that often fail to recognise the value of … to challenge the privileged positions and structures that perpetuate inequality. 7 Community-led COVID-19 response: an update from the … the sector while failing to drive the broad based societal and environmental change envisaged by the ‘building back better’ agenda.  …
Article, 23 December 2021
Three people sat around a table speaking into microphones
Seizing opportunities for urban change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 3
… as the 1970s that IIED’s natural partners in challenging poverty and inequality would not be international and national organisations, but … living conditions, which make millions of people vulnerable to environmental as well as social injustices. Sharing and solidarity Urban …
Article, 04 February 2020
Women living in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve are trained to sustainably harvest xate palms, providing them with income and preserving the reserve's biodiversity (Photo: Dani Newcomb/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The role, influence and impact of women in biodiversity conservation
… in forest and fishery management groups can result in better resource governance and conservation outcomes (PDF) . In Rwanda, land tenure … world are underrepresented in decision-making positions related to environmental and sustainable development issues. Women also fall well … of women in decision-making roles related to biodiversity and environmental governance at all levels. We need to mitigate both …
Insight, 09 October 2018
Image of a solar panel, with light glinting off it.
Green growth and equity must go hand in hand
… combination of developing country perspectives on inclusive governance for a green economy, with complementary lessons from the … reading for the upcoming G8, which will need to get to grips with inequality .   There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that … they can generate, but at the expense of local people’s access to the environmental assets they need for their own prosperity. IIED’s view is …
Insight, 13 June 2013
A cityscape
IIED podcast explores opportunities for urban change
… today , working with those urban residents most vulnerable to environmental as well as social injustices. The researchers discuss the … of our time, from climate crisis to biodiversity loss and increasing inequality. You can subscribe to the podcast on your favourite podcast …
News, 04 February 2020
A man points his finger at someone in a meeting room at a debate at a meeting on the sustainable development of the Amazon at Rio+20.
Five things we’ve learnt from Rio+20
… and China focused on the potential impact that a greater focus on environmental wellbeing could have on job creation. On the flip side, … consensus across governments; and it fails to establish better governance arrangements to tackle these global challenges. On the plus … means the world has to tackle economic volatility, social unrest and inequality, and the dangers posed by exceeding environmental limits and …
Insight, 03 July 2012
Wind turbines on the top of a hill
Is Davos signalling the end of business as usual?
… their own ambitious emission reduction targets and actively tackling inequality, while at the same time large multinational companies … aspirations in all the areas they operate in. It advocates that environmental, social and good governance performance should be measured and reported on and that human …
Insight, 21 January 2020
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Aligning social protection and climate resilience: a case study of MGNREGA and MGNREGA-EB in Andhra Pradesh
… address the challenges of poverty, climate vulnerability and gender inequality. Social protection programmes provide a safety net for … National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and the MGNREGA-Environmental Benefits programme (MGNREGA-EB) in India, based on …
Publication, 01 March 2016