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Are small-scale farmers there to feed themselves and large-scale farmers there to feed the world? Credit: Flickr/Peter Casier
Can small-scale farmers feed the world?
… demand for food, while food production is increasingly compromised by climate change and land degradation. With nearly a billion people already going … supplying entire countries. Katarina Eriksson, from the Tetra Laval group, claimed that Kenya built its whole dairy industry with milk …
Insight, 15 March 2011
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Earth Summit 2012: Crucial opportunity that needs broader buy-in
… Earth Summit led to important outcomes, including the signing of the Climate Change Convention, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the … to fulfilling existing commitments, such as the Rio conventions on climate, biodiversity and desertification. The European Union will …
Insight, 20 December 2011
Why markets matter
… is a flagship research initiative from IIED’s Sustainable Markets Group. It explores how market governance mechanisms (MGMs) – the formal … – like a small tax on all international flights to raise money for climate change adaptation. Our research on investment principles , for example, …
Insight, 19 March 2012
City without limits: keeping pace with the urban poor
… with IIED? I was a resident fellow with the Human Settlements group at IIED in 2004 for six months. This helped me better understand … the world. We are just beginning to explore a relationship with the Climate Change group, and Human Settlements is helping us bridge this gap to see …
Article, 18 November 2008
Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)
IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
… will demonstrate nature-based solutions to global challenges such as climate change, health and supporting human life. The work of IIED Members of IIED's Natural Resources Group  and their research partners attended the congress, and played a …
Event, 12 November 2014
Drying beans
Community protocols can bring real benefits to communities and combat biodiversity loss
… the Park, which are vital for their food security and resilience to climate change. Having signed an agreement with a gene bank (the International … resource rights. For example, the Bushbuckbridge healers are a group of 80 healers in South Africa who developed a protocol which …
Insight, 15 March 2012
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Share the love this Valentine’s day with fairer flowers and chocolates
… so much energy is needed to heat greenhouses in winter in our colder climate, ‘buying local’ is not always better. For example, British-grown … d'Ivoire “registered as much as 70% more productivity than a control group of non-certified farms”. Where are those improved earnings coming … And if you do opt for flowers, care for them and they’ll last longer. Change the water every day and rinse and recut the stems to keep those …
Insight, 13 February 2013
A line of Christmas trees. Photo: Brett Flanders (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Sustainable development requires an infusion of love
… of global carbon emissions – was heralded as the easy win in UN climate change negotiations. Perhaps not… Humanity's ecological footprint …
Insight, 20 December 2013
A pot with bubbling food sits cooking on an open fire.
Sustainable energy: can a new initiative succeed where Rio+20 failed?
… commitments  — and it didn’t. Then again neither did the climate change conference in Durban in 2011 or its predecessor in Copenhagen in …
Insight, 25 June 2012
Business models for sustainable development
Article, 10 May 2010