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Saleemul Huq, left, discusses 2015's big issues with negotiators and ambassadors from the Least Developed Countries in New York in early April (Photo: Claire Hatfield/IIED)
2015: a critical year for the Least Developed Countries
… communities in the world and the poorest countries – which is why IIED recently hosted a retreat in New York to focus on the demands of … (SDGs) currently being negotiated and due to be agreed at the UN General Assembly in New York in September this year. These follow from … the rich to the poor countries, and The fourth and final track is about disaster risk reduction under the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) …
Insight, 17 April 2015
Four elephants roam the plain on the Maasai Mara, Kenya
Covering elephant tracks: can insurance compensate farmers for wildlife damage?
… and has the potential to offset costs for local people and bring about behaviour change. However, it has been difficult to develop … Dr Sumith Pilapitiya, former Director General of the Department of Wildlife Conservation, and IIED's chief economist Paul Steele discuss how livelihood insurance can …
Insight, 27 March 2019
Bangladeshi fishers with debts must repay loans even when fishing is banned, resulting in illegal fishing activities (Photo: John Pavelka, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Idris bhai, your voice has been heard!
… Last year, I blogged about a conversation I had with a Bangladeshi fisherman, Idris bhai, as … management. During the briefing meeting, Syed Arif Azad, director general of DoF, alluded that efforts were being made to ban both the … at least some of his prayers. Essam Yassin Mohammed ( eymohammed@iied.org ) is senior researcher in environmental economics in IIED's …
Insight, 24 March 2015
Women fishing in shallow water
CBA15: Local solutions inspiring global action
Event, 14 June 2021
A woman picks fresh greens
Beyond maize: exploring agricultural diversification in Zambia
… To support people facing hunger, the government needs to raise about US$176 million. This is a wake-up call for Zambia to think beyond … Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) project implemented by Hivos and IIED, we have produced a discussion paper that explores the options for … still allocates about 45% of its research investment to maize, while funding for research on pulse crop productivity is estimated to be far …
Insight, 22 August 2019
The UN Climate Action Summit
Real climate ambition means switching to 'business unusual'
Insight, 04 October 2019
A traditional farmer in the Eastern Himalaya where indigenous communities use seed networks to protect their knowledge. Research should not publish details of traditional knowledge that could be used commercially without equitable benefit-sharing (Photo: Ruchi Pant/Ecoserve)
Striving for the highest standards in research ethics
… At IIED, we have always thought of ourselves as a morally driven … into practice, and to share them with our partners, donors and the general public. Setting ourselves a high bar Formally defining our … Developing our ethics policy has forced us to think more closely about the ways in which gathering information with and from …
Insight, 14 June 2017
Mitunu, a female of the Mubare gorilla group in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, is one of the few remaining critically endangered mountain gorillas left in the wild. CTPH programs promote health and conservation to save Mitunu and her family (Photo: Ryoma Otsuka)
Are health investments paying off for endangered wildlife?
… up of volunteers − travel to communities around Bwindi and provide general conservation and health information as well as access to family … has been an empowering experience. Clear health benefits – but what about conservation? CTPH has achieved important health gains for … the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation (Oxford University) , IIED and national Ugandan partners will evaluate whether and how …
Insight, 02 March 2017
Mogadishu attracts people from all over the country, making it the second-fastest growing city in the world, with a 4% annual rate of urbanisation growth (Photo: Baron Reznik, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The challenge of finding money to build shelter in Mogadishu’s informal settlements
… what kind of homes do all these people live in? Tana Copenhagen  and IIED are conducting a study on access to shelter for vulnerable … override the formal institutions that are inaccessible to much of the general population.  Durable solutions While these informal systems … are to break out of the poverty cycle. Further reading Read more about Tana’s work with informal settlements in Mogadishu and Somalia: …
Insight, 28 January 2019
A local farmer uses manual callipers to measure a tree. Measuring trees in person can be cheaper and just as accurate (Photo: Geoff Wells)
The Paris Agreement, SDGs and simple local monitoring
… initiatives often face criticism that a large share of the funding intended for local 'front line' environment and development … stakeholders. I was in Paris last month on the sidelines of COP21 at IIED's REDD+ workshop , the Global Landscape Forum and the Development & … the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) also talked about the need for cost effective monitoring as REDD+ is upscaled. From …
Insight, 07 January 2016