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Neglected energy source can fuel giant leap forward in developing nations
… forests and ensure replanting happens in a way that is sensitive to food security needs, biomass can be a renewable and sustainable source …
News, 09 March 2011
Two men pushing a boat filled with mangrove seedlings
Finding solutions in nature for climate change
… Climate and Strategy at the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), summed up the urgent need. He said: “We … landscape scale to sustainably produce a wide variety of forest and agriculture products.   ZNFCA is one of many forest farm producer …
Insight, 29 May 2020
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams
… rely on to survive. In the context of climate change, energy and food production were high on the international agenda in Paris at the …
News, 16 December 2015
A traditional farmer selects seeds in the Eastern Himalayas, India. (Photo: Ruchi Pant/Ecoserve)
Making the business case for biodiversity — in an instant
… other words, will it create jobs, contribute to water and food security and strengthen communities' ability to adapt to climate … ways to incorporate conservation into policies across sectors — from agriculture, tourism and mining policies to financial strategies and …
Insight, 10 March 2014
Farmers in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces in Southwestern China have responded to climatic adversity by innovating to increase productivity using less water (Image: IIED)
Why listen to and support the most vulnerable?
Insight, 02 October 2015
Farmers analyse local maize varieties in the Karst mountains, Southwest China. IIED's work includes participatory plant breeding and community supported agriculture (Photo: IIED)
Can ecosystem-based adaptation help deliver the promise of Paris?
… on the natural environment for their livelihoods, which provides food, water and fuel, and a way of generating cash. Climate change … China through participatory plant breeding and community supported agriculture. During the course of the project, we will seek to …
Insight, 13 January 2017
A farmer's house and sugar cane field in Cambodia, where there is concern about large-scale investment in sugar plantations driving local people off the land (Photo: Brian Hoffman, via Creative Commons)
Human rights should be at the heart of investment policy making
… for human rights. For example, investments in petroleum, mining or agriculture may squeeze the land rights of farmers, herders and … such as the right to property, the right to housing or the right to food. Similarly, privatising water supply services may affect the urban … Foreign investment, law and sustainable development: A handbook on agriculture and extractive industries , Lorenzo Cotula (2013), IIED …
Insight, 20 October 2014
Urban-rural linkages have been 'beefed up' in the latest draft of the UN's Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals
OWG 'zero draft' is a huge step forward: now let's get practical
… of targets on trade-distorting subsidies, sustainable and resilient food systems, market stability, conduct of multinational corporations, … of natural resources, including forests and marine resources , and agriculture and food systems Gender equality Access to energy for not only basic …
Insight, 20 June 2014
Climate fight must enlist biodiversity and communities
… to climate change. Poor people depend heavily on biodiversity for food, medicine, and livelihoods, and the greater the variety of natural …
News, 18 February 2008
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Share the love this Valentine’s day with fairer flowers and chocolates
… of coverage in the media about the environmental benefits of buying food grown locally. But it turns it isn’t always the most … not all flowers bought from Africa benefit smallholder farmers. In agriculture, supply chains operate in global marketplaces where there is … – they are no panacea for poor producers as an IIED report looking at food and cotton certification schemes in Asia showed. The report found …
Insight, 13 February 2013