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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?
… and women, particularly in developing countries, who are struck by natural disasters and climate change, who live in challenging … work. We care about their rights, their livelihoods, their access to resources (financial, technologies and human capital). We seek to … ) is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group and is leading IIED's gender review and audit. …
Insight, 15 May 2015
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… Drought Management Authority (NDMA) and the Pastoralist Parliamentary Group (PPG) are launching the publication, entitled 'Valuing … in consultation with local people whose design safeguards the natural resilience of the drylands and promotes an alternative path to productivity that builds on the natural comparative advantage of the ASALs and thereby protects the …
News, 27 April 2015
Farmers in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces respond to climatic adversity by using their own innovations and biocultural heritage
China's farmers innovate to adapt to climate change
… . Krystyna Swiderska is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group ( [email protected] ). Watch an  extended version of the …
Insight, 17 December 2013
A member of the Sekonyer community gets ready for a day on the Sekonyer river in Borneo, close to the site of recent conflict between a palm oil company and RSPO member and the local community (Photo: Rainforest Action Network via Creative Commons)
Paving a path towards redressing grievances and holding investors accountable
… local communities to lose land, sacred forests and other important resources that their families have managed and farmed for generations. … to promote secure tenure rights and equitable access to land and natural resources. There has also been a proliferation of … mechanisms for redress and accountability in agricultural and other natural resource investments'. The presentation can be viewed on IIED's …
Insight, 07 January 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?
… but least able to adapt.  At the same time they rely heavily on the natural environment for their livelihoods, which provides food, water … economic diversification and sustainable management of natural resources."  The COP22 climate negotiations in Marrakech helped pave the … ) is a research associate with IIED's  Climate Change research group  and biodiversity team. With thanks to Ali Raza Rizvi, programme …
Insight, 13 January 2017
Drought affects Xinjiang Province, a consequence of climate change (Photo: Simon Lim)
Well-financed climate change action must be central to the post-2015 goals
Insight, 04 September 2014
Captain Benjamin Kalimutima Lulimba finds the skull of an elephant recently killed by poachers who ripped out its tusks. Province Orientale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Photo: Matchbox Media Collective)
How best to deal with wildlife crime while protecting the poor?
… Wildlife crime also has impacts at different levels. It can deplete natural assets that are important for national development – for example wildlife that attracts tourists. It can also deplete resources that poor people depend on to survive.  These examples show … Dilys Roe is a principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group ([email protected]). …
Insight, 01 August 2014
People planting trees
Planting pilot has vision to nurture young tree ambassadors
… they bring life, beauty and colour. As the trees fall down, so the natural beauty of the region around Kisumu falls away. And there are … to form associations with a view to sustainably managing forest resources while being able to support their livelihoods. It is on this …
Insight, 11 February 2020
An image of an artisanal fisher in Kiribati casting his net into the water; 90 per cent of all fishers are small-scale or artisanal (Photo: Quentin Hanich/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Towards an inclusive blue economy
… of the marine environment, with exploiting marine and coastal resources to maximise economic output at the other.    Or it can be read … a basic level, the first question is who depends on ocean and marine resources for livelihoods and sustenance? It is poor people in poor … economy as a result of the discussion: To use the policy tools of natural capital accounting to fully value all goods and services …
Insight, 01 June 2016
Negotiators on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership discuss the treaty in Brussels in May 2015 (Photo: European Parliament, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Investment treaties and citizens' power: lessons from experience
… is principal researcher (law and sustainable development) in IIED's Natural Resources Group and team leader, legal tools. Further resources Democratising …
Insight, 07 September 2015