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The front of a cinema, with posters advertising the film Avatar.
Was 'Avatar' good for Indigenous People?
… messages. Survival International, the Indigenous rights advocacy group, explicitly (and successfully) linked the plight of the Dongria … havoc on local communities and ecosystems. Moreover, in an age of climate change awareness, there is clearly a case for moving beyond the …
Insight, 04 November 2010
International experts on gender and employment participating in an IIED gender workshop in 2014 (Photo: Lucille Robinson/IIED)
Gender in the workplace: do families always have to lose out?
… in developing countries, who are struck by natural disasters and climate change, who live in challenging environments and climate, or who do … ) is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group and is leading IIED's gender review and audit. …
Insight, 15 May 2015
In the absence of electricity, students in Bangladesh are given charger lights so they can study at home (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Ensuring an Energy Sustainable Development Goal delivers for poor people and the planet
… through supporting the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group . IIED's energy team work with a network of partners interested in … gender inequalities is therefore essential to promote transformative change. Concrete indicators on bringing gender budgeting into energy … depends on environmental sustainability Without tackling dangerous climate change, it will not be possible to eradicate poverty and ensure …
Insight, 25 March 2014
A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber
China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?
… no doubt that BRI is a global game changer; it is the nature of that change which remains a question. IIED’s priorities include bolder action on the climate emergency and prioritising nature in development ; public … small enterprises that individually remain off the radar to date. A a group of Chinese enterprises that together account for much of the …
Insight, 19 June 2019
Althelia Ecosphere's Simon Dent speaking at Fish Night 2 (Photo: Inta Photography)
Fish Night 2 looks at finance for sustainable fisheries
… pressures, including overfishing, habitat degradation, pollution and climate change. There is urgent need to reverse this trend and transition to a … senior researcher in the IIED's Sustainable Markets research group .   IIED researchers have been working in Bangladesh on a project …
Event, 04 March 2015
Securing land rights for indigenous peoples, such as these members of the Xingu tribe, pictured in Brazil, is critical to alleviating poverty (Photo: Rights and Resources Initiative)
Securing indigenous and community land rights in the future we want
… indigenous and community land rights will be critical to efforts to change the striking poverty statistics for these already marginalised … increasing food security and protecting critical ecosystems from climate change and natural disasters. Lessons from Brazil In Brazil's … and can be measured effectively. In response to this concern, a group of organisations working on land has just released a technical …
Insight, 24 March 2015
Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal. Photo: Sajal Sthapit
Forest businesses 'fit for life'
… income generation, gender equity, food security, energy security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation and soil … poor (for whom survival is a pressing current problem, not a future climate-related one). Priorities Inevitably, countries’ environmental, …
Insight, 18 February 2013
Report warns of future food crises in Africa's poorest nations
… ever to famine comes in a report launched today by the Sahel Working Group - a coalition of prominent aid organisations - and the … of the Observatory of the Sahel and Sahara in Tunisia, warns that climate change could make people in the Sahel even more vulnerable to food …
News, 10 July 2007
A traditional dance festival attracts tourists in Romania's Maramures Nature Park. The park was designed as a multifunctional protected landscape and was zoned to reflect both environmental priorities and economic needs of local people (Photo: Radu Pop/UNDP, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Equity, justice and ecosystem services: what do we mean?
… look at these concepts in a specific context. The Natural Resources Group at IIED is taking up this challenge, focusing in particular on the … been improvements over time. Not least because perceptions of equity change over time. Where do we go from here? In terms of REDD+, we hope … in Payments for Ecosystem Services ,  Unai Pascual, Basque Centre for Climate Change What is human wellbeing? A locally driven, …
Insight, 11 May 2015
Langrug informal settlement, South Africa, May 2014 (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Introduction to urban poverty
… at high risk of disasters and with risk levels increasing because of climate change. Most definitions and measurements of poverty take none of the … the next five years IIED is working to reduce urban poverty, and to change misleading views about urbanisation and rural change. Drawing on …
Project, 09 September 2014