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IIED focus on outstanding women in sustainable development
… heard, but explains why more work is needed if women are to see real change in their everyday lives. The interview with Denton is just one of … Sutz , senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group . She will explore women and land rights issues ahead of the World … the former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will write about the links between sustainable …
News, 08 March 2018
Women selling spices in the street
Getting attention to a much-neglected health agenda: occupational health and safety
… to thriving: learning from responses to the health effects of climate change in informal workers and informal settlements of Zimbabwe'. It … Harare and Masvingo. The research included household surveys, focus group discussions and key informant interviews among those who do solid …
Insight, 27 April 2021
People sit on chairs two metres apart while listening to a man at a lectern
COVID-19: IIED in the media
… a new IIED report shows they have an opportunity to tackle debt, climate and biodiversity loss together. Large-scale debt swaps would … after the pandemic. 15 May 2020 | Mail Online – As plans on how to change the way we work and live once the COVID-19 lockdown is lifted, … Laura Kelly, director of IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group, writes its policies need to be green and social so the …
Article, 14 April 2020
Women in developing countries are particularly vulnerable, but are their voices sufficiently heard at major international events? (Photo: Victoria Hickman)
New IIED discussion series focuses on gender at international events
… At last year's UN climate talks, international negotiators adopted a Gender Action Plan … gender equality and women's empowerment into the climate change discourse.  But at the same event there were allegations of … Speakers: Chair:   Liz Carlile , director, IIED Communications Group Panellists: Caroline Moser , emeritus professor, urban social …
News, 31 January 2018
A Kenyan woman farmer at work in the Mount Kenya region (Photo: Google licence)
Toulmin: "Soil is the foundation for a prosperous society"
News, 10 December 2014
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Community maps reveal rich resources of land policymakers think is empty
Insight, 25 April 2013
Two women carrying farming tools
IIED's best of 2019: videos
… as part of the support we give to the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group of the UNFCCC. Launched at the 2019 Climate Action Summit in New York, the LDC 2050 Vision is the LDCs’ … 70% of climate funding to drive local-level action, holistic climate change planning from the local to the national level, and ensuring …
Insight, 06 January 2020
A herd of elephants (Photo: Sean Habig, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Biodiversity loss – more than an environmental emergency
… that biodiversity loss is as important an issue for society as climate change . But there is still much confusion and misperception about … with development have a blind spot for environmental issues – climate change is a priority high on the agenda of many development …
Insight, 25 July 2019
Forested hills in Nepal, with a house in the foreground and forested hills, and then clouds behind.
Report calls for REDD+ to Invest in Forest Communities
News, 16 May 2012
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 
… As climate change escalates and its impacts deepen, resources to support poor … aid and broader criticism of overseas spending threaten funding for climate change initiatives in some of the world's most vulnerable … is senior researcher in IIED's  Shaping Sustainable Markets research group . Marissa Van Epp is a consultant working for IIED. …
Insight, 16 March 2017