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Earth from space
Fifty years on, 'Only One Earth' rings true
… the years, research including our own added to the evidence base for sustainable development. Today, it is widely accepted that protecting … the conference’s unofficial report. With contributions from a global group of authors, Barbara and Rene took responsibility for compiling the … assault on the natural world, growing urban risk and unsustainable markets.   Building on our original ethos, we work with others to apply …
Insight, 08 June 2021
Women discuss forest management at a Community Forest User Group meeting in Nepal. Photo: WOCAN
Gender and REDD+
… value chain and women in charcoal. Recommendations included the sustainable intensification of simsim production because it is a …
Project, 12 September 2013
Solar-powered irrigated water pumps such as this one in Bangladesh can help villagers cope with unreliable rainfall patterns (Photo: Neha Rai/IIED)
Climate finance must reach poor families
Insight, 16 February 2015
A large group of people sit under a tree and talk.
We need more integrity between the treatment of forests at home and abroad
… unleash private sector investment in small-scale forest farms to make sustainable land use systems profitable. Is it for this reason that the … is attractive to investors and break into competitive value-added markets. The outcome will be improved food, fuel and fibre security and sustainable forest management in their respective countries.   A second …
Insight, 02 October 2012
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
IIED's best of 2016: blogs
… Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development February: Our most-read blog of 2016 put forward … facing Least Developed Countries June: The Least Developed Countries Group was set up in the 1960s to ensure development aid targeted those … we be at one of those moments in history when the rules by which markets work are reshaped by public will? We certainly need to be …
Article, 28 December 2016
Workshop participants displayed and exchanged seeds from different parts of the world (Image: Yiching Song/Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy)
New film shows Chinese mountain communities protecting biocultural heritage
News, 14 March 2017
A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber
China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?
… project ever. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)  easily beats the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement in terms of money … small enterprises that individually remain off the radar to date. A a group of Chinese enterprises that together account for much of the … beneficial sustainable land use. It is equally important that Chinese markets are pushed and pulled towards commitments to sustainability and …
Insight, 19 June 2019
Annual Report 2011
Annual Report 2010/11
… governance work: our efforts across all areas to secure transparent, sustainable, equitable and effective decision making at many levels. … Learning together Sanjay Upadhyay: Forest Governance Learning Group Alberto Monterroso: Small producer agency in the globalised market …
Page, 17 October 2011
Agricultural development: business as usual is not an option
… This question and ways forward were discussed at the Food we want – Sustainable, Local, Fair event held at IIED last week. Food security is … – such as seeds, fertilizers, credit –  and to technologies, markets, land and decision making processes – would pay multiple … 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
The Dolakha FSC-certified community forest user group speaking at the International Forest Connect workshop in Nepal in February 2013 (Photo: Leianne Rolington/IIED)
Focusing support for locally controlled forest enterprise
… is working to reduce poverty and deforestation by better linking sustainable, locally-controlled forest enterprises to each other, markets, service providers and policy processes. Forest Connect supports … forestry business models. - Martin Greijmans, Enhanced Livelihoods & Markets Connecting to policy Forest Connect is co-managed by IIED, the …
Article, 14 March 2014