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A view of the Houses of Parliament, home of the Environmental Audit Committee which has warned that the government risks undermining new global development goals (Photo: Skeeze, via pixabay)
MPs warn UK government against limiting sustainable development goals
News, 15 December 2014
A community workshop. Social learning processes were a key element of a successful 10-year collaboration between the International Potato Centre (CIP) and indigenous communities in the Peruvian Andes (Photo: IIED)
It's the process, stupid 
… complex problems, including those arising from climate change and food insecurity.   The importance of process  IIED has recently piloted … institutions.  With funding and support from CGIAR's Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security programme (CCAFS) , we tested this framework with five …
Insight, 16 March 2017
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RRA Notes 5: General Issue
… in Nigeria Planning fuelwood initiatives in Nepal Assessing food security in Sudan Involving farmers in agricultural research in … Rapid appraisal for fuelwood planning in Nepal John Soussan Rapid food security assessment: a pilot exercise in Sudan Simon Maxwell RRA …
Article, 30 April 1989
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Tackling the land/water rights interface through a human rights lens
… a study on the tenure challenges of improving access to water for agriculture in the Sahel Lorenzo Cotula Land and water rights are … to the realisation of fundamental human rights like the right to food and the right to water. Addressing the problematic areas of the … understanding that the realisation of human rights like the right to food and the right to water is not only function of the availability of …
Publication, 01 January 1970
A man bends over to tend his crops in a field
Bright spots of success: local adaptation brings answers to the global climate crisis
Insight, 02 September 2019
Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)
It's time for revolution in forest business
… with the cultural forested landscapes that have provided them with food, energy, construction materials, medicines and more for … such as WWF , International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) , Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)  and IIED are …
Insight, 17 November 2014
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Standards and sustainable trade. A sectoral analysis for the proposed sustainable trade and innovation centre (STIC)
Publication, 01 April 2002
An image of Mohammad Sayedul Haque, the Bangladesh Minister of Fisheries and Livestock alongside a table around which sit participants from Bangladesh, Myanmar and India as they discuss sustainable hilsa fishery management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Scientists call for international collaboration to safeguard hilsa fish stocks
News, 06 May 2016
Fishermen collecting the day's catch
Bangladesh: protecting the Hilsa from overfishing
Project, 26 June 2013
A small-scale farmer in Tanzania
Protecting women’s livelihoods through gender-equitable land governance in sub-Saharan Africa
… Land is the backbone of livelihoods in most of rural Africa. Agriculture and other land-based activities are key to food security, income and employment. Since the mid-2000s, a wave of investments in commercial agriculture, mineral extraction and large infrastructure projects across …
Project, 09 October 2014