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A field of bare earth covered with rows of dried stalks.
Climate, health and urban informal economies – stories of need and change
Article, 07 June 2022
An image of Mohammad Sayedul Haque, the Bangladesh Minister of Fisheries and Livestock alongside a table around which sit participants from Bangladesh, Myanmar and India as they discuss sustainable hilsa fishery management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Scientists call for international collaboration to safeguard hilsa fish stocks
… This video looks at efforts to encourage sustainable fisheries in Bangladesh Scientists, academics and officials … in Bangladesh, and to explore opportunities for collaboration on sustainable fisheries between Bangladesh, India and Myanmar.  … collaborative research and development opportunities for sustainable hilsa fisheries management and development in the Bay of …
News, 06 May 2016
Cover for G04274.pdf
Mexico’s Payments for Ecosystem Services Programme
… Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 March 2018
Uganda food lab participants add their names to a declaration that came out of the lab discussions (Photo: Nimrod Bagonza)
Food Change Labs tackle complex issues with the whole system in the room
… outcomes, such as the Lusaka Municipal Food Council, a Youth for Sustainable Food Group in Zambia, and a local multi-stakeholder Coalition of the Willing … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 30 January 2019
Plates of traditional Kabarole food
Creating knowledge and supporting action: citizen-generated evidence from food diaries in Uganda
… , posed to people in Fort Portal, Western Uganda. KRC is a partner of Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) , a Hivos and IIED programme that … from the discussion paper ' Citizen-generated Evidence for a More Sustainable and Healthy Food System '. We also shared findings from the food diary research. The key event outcomes are available on the Sustainable Diets for All website. …
Insight, 14 September 2018
IIED's ASM workshop brought together stakeholders from across the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia to share their experiences and perspectives (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
Waking the lazy, sleepy giant
… asked participants directly which stakeholders should be in such a group and how countries should be selected. There was a real sense of … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 21 May 2015
Marisa Carmargo presents approaches to equity in forest governance: Lessons for safeguard development at an event at COP20 in Lima (Photo: Donal Yeang via Flickr)
Why the private sector must be included in efforts to curb deforestation
… global population, expanding middle class, and rising new emerging markets, consumption of chocolate is expected to grow rapidly. Where is … need to promote reforestation to enhance carbon stocks, and promote sustainable management of forests and conservation together with … we need to acknowledge that the private sector is not a homogeneous group. It includes farmers, small businesses, large corporations and …
Insight, 05 December 2014
Essam Yassin Mohammed argues that Goal 14 cannot be seen in isolation from the other Sustainable Development Goals (Image: IIED)
Understanding the SDGs: the importance of Goal 14
… [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMEjOG09-L4] Sustainable Development Goal 14 is a historic achievement, according to … Leave no one behind Mohammed, senior researcher in IIED's Sustainable Markets Group, says the SDGs can make a difference but will only do so if we …
News, 07 September 2015
Women farmers bending over planting crops in a paddy field
Curbing the impacts of COVID-19 on Nepal’s small-scale farmers and seizing opportunities for food system reform
… – farmers do not have an immediate shortage of food. But with local markets closed due to risks of contamination, they have no means of … to make traditional agriculture and family farming practices more sustainable and resilient in the face of future crises. Many are engaged …
Insight, 11 May 2020
Staying south – trade, aid, and the recession
… long since abandoned by the likes of the World Bank, bring the sustainable development benefits that LDC governments hope for - a huge … 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 … criticised - the dumping of ‘food aid' into developing country markets. Particularly singled out was the US, which was accused of …
Insight, 30 March 2010