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A community in Bangladesh maps out their local resources and plans for an emergency.
Lessons from Bangladesh for a post-Sandy New York
… adaptive measure being undertaken is to increase the effectiveness of natural vegetation as a storm barrier. This has often involved what Dr … Institute for Space Studies, where she heads the Climate Impacts Group. She recently co-chaired the New York City Panel on Climate … in Providence, RI. He is also an adjunct professor at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. …
News, 22 January 2013
The Swiss ski resort of Davos, which hosts the World Economic Forum (Photo: swiss-image.ch/Michael Buholzer, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The glass is half full: in 2015 we need to demand that our leaders deliver
… the glass is half full and hope is one of our most important scarce resources.  We need that hope to spur us on. We need that hope to demand … part.     The world's governments through the UN's Open Working Group have identified 17 proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) …
Insight, 21 January 2015
Delegates at the international symposium on agroecology (Photo: John Choptiany/FAO)
Agroecology offers FAO a 'new window' on agriculture
… . Laura Silici ( [email protected] )  is a researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . …
Insight, 02 October 2014
A farmer in the Potato Park, Peru (Photo: Adam Kerby)
A marriage to save the earth: Farmers and researchers innovate to conserve biodiversity
… ([email protected]) is principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . …
Insight, 07 October 2014
A storm rages over downtown Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in the early evening (Photo: Jeff_Holmes via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Three ways developing nations can close the climate finance gaps
Insight, 04 April 2014
Aceh, Indonesia, in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the ninth anniversary of which is on Boxing Day. Photo: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Reading into the future this Christmas
… in terms of time. On the one hand are rapid events such as natural disasters and conflicts, which demand immediate responses. … What tactics might we adopt consciously to limit our use of key resources? In fisheries, for instance, this might include imposing time …
Insight, 23 December 2013
Invest in farmers, not in farmland
… to. Some of the world's poorest people are losing the land, water and natural resources that have supported their livelihoods for generations. In …
Insight, 22 February 2012
Collecting water from a solar-based purification system supplied by CAFOD. Chila Union, Mongla District, Bangladesh. Photo: Photo: Paula Nyunt / CAFOD
CAFOD/IIED show context is key to sustainable energy for all
… models.  Meeting the SE4All goal with the limited financial resources currently on offer without thinking about end users' needs and …
Insight, 16 September 2013
Agricultural development: business as usual is not an option
… to the land they farm and improving their access to appropriate resources – such as seeds, fertilizers, credit –  and to technologies, … Ethel del Pozo-Vergnes , a researcher from IIED’s Sustainable Markets Group , highlighted ways forward for a food secure future: With the …
Insight, 05 April 2012
Staying south – trade, aid, and the recession
… oil thirst. So is this simply the case of another country exploiting resources in less developed nations? Perhaps, but it does demonstrate … raw materials, locks African countries into low-value added export of natural resources with a single buyer. Yet perhaps those in glass houses … volume of tied aid from donor countries that are part of the OECD - group of 30 high-income countries - was $10.8 billion . At the failed …
Insight, 30 March 2010