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Improving governance of forest tenure: a practical guide
… technical guide has been prepared by IIED, with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO Governance … of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. ~For more information on the Guidelines and FAO’s …
Publication, 01 September 2013
Artisanal and small-scale miners in Madagascar show the dynamic nature of the sector (Photo: Fitsum Weldegiorgis/IIED)
Talking sustainable development in the troubled world of ASM
… sustainable development programmes. ASM usually co-exists with agriculture, competing for land, water, and productive capacity, and impacting on local food supply. Strong local institutions could also guide efforts to … productivity from both mining and agriculture and ensure long-term food security. Productive ASM would enable households to pay for …
Insight, 25 October 2016
Provocation 1: Producer agency and the agenda to make markets work for the poor
… Food and agriculture …
Event, 01 January 2015
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Demand-side interventions to reduce deforestation and forest degradation
… Global demand for food, wood products, biofuels and other agricultural products drives the …
Publication, 01 April 2013
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Independent review of Forest Connect
… several inter-connected global, national and local issues: poverty, food and energy security, soil degradation, and rapid deforestation that …
Publication, 01 May 2013
Top publications of 2018
IIED's best of 2018: publications
… 3 Citizen-generated evidence for a more sustainable and healthy food system Research report Evidence generation by and with low-income … policymakers are to improve understanding of people’s diets and the food systems they use, particularly the informal economy. The informal … explores how we can reverse the alarming loss of biodiversity in agriculture and foster diverse diets. 7 Ecosystems, poverty alleviation …
Article, 21 December 2018
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaking the World Economic Forum in 2017 (Photo: Jakob Polacsek/World Economic Forum, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: getting indigenous women's voices heard on the SDGs
… floods come and destroy what has grown. Areas that once saw healthy food production are now suffering from chronic food insecurity. Food insecurity forces migration as people rush to find food elsewhere. …
Article, 15 May 2018
The cover and an extract from the book 'Valuing variability – new perspectives on climate resilient drylands development'' (Image: IIED)
Pastoralism less impacted by climate change than industrial farming
… Bernard Rey, deputy head of unit DEVCO C1, Rural Development, Food Security, Nutrition Presentation  Koen Van Troos, education and …
News, 25 September 2015
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Improved cook stoves impact study - Eritrea
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 July 2010
Biomass in the red – but can we put biomass into REDD+?
… that create incentives for Malawians to plant trees on farm for food and fuel are essential for REDD+ and climate change adaptation. … red — demand is exceeding supply. Growing populations require so much food, energy and construction materials that existing patterns of land … Roughly 90 per cent of Malawians depend on rain-fed subsistence agriculture for food and the country lies 15th on Maplecroft’s Climate …
Insight, 18 July 2011