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Farmers harvest crops in fields.
Interview: Championing public participation in Kenya’s trade negotiations
… Parliamentary Caucus on Economy and Business which is a bipartisan group of about 30 legislators, and have submitted evidence to the … including Econews Africa and pressure from the Economic Caucus group to avail the annexes. However, merely posting complex, voluminous … Sustainable markets …
Article, 29 June 2022
Chinese supermarket. Photo: Simon Lim
Reflections on ten years of rating big brands for sustainability
… they appear to be. Bill Vorley is a principal researcher in IIED's Sustainable Markets Group. … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 27 February 2013
A group of men and woman stand for a group photograph in front of a painting.
AB Consultants: mitigating risks for people on low incomes
Article, 13 June 2022
Two women sitting down and speaking to each other.
Sustaining coffee producers’ agency in the context of COVID-19
… in Kenya that aims to tackle barriers to an inclusive, fair and sustainable coffee sector. Its main focus is promoting access and agency … enterprise with the aim of disrupting the coffee sector and enhancing sustainable livelihoods for smallholder farmers, focusing on women and … and youth into the coffee supply chain by directly linking them to markets. Vava Coffee seeks to create strong relationships with the …
Insight, 04 August 2020
Raipur in Central India is developing into a major urban centre, but the infrastructure in the city's expanding informal settlements is poor (Photo: India Water Portal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in urban areas
… 'Vulnerable', along with 'sustainable' and 'resilient', are three powerful words that appear so … face – within the household in tasks and food allocations, in labour markets, in access to land for housing and credit…. Water piped into … the risks of premature death and ill health. There is no "vulnerable group" if the risk that they are vulnerable to is removed.  In informal …
Insight, 26 April 2017
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Standards and sustainable trade. A sectoral analysis for the proposed sustainable trade and innovation centre (STIC)
… In the search for alternative markets in face of globalisation, the export of environmentally friendly … protect the environment. The challenge is to connect the rhetoric of sustainable trade with reality, bridging the gaps between emerging practices such as sustainable forestry, organic agriculture, and ecotourism with markets …
Publication, 01 April 2002
IIED's 2017 strategy update
Our strategy: 2014-2019
… period from 2019. Our strategic priorities The signing of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 and the 2016 Paris … Paris Agreement by  working with the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group  and our networks in the LDCs to promote climate diplomacy, … natural resources, human settlements, climate change and sustainable markets. We updated our strategic goals in each of these areas: …
Page, 29 July 2022
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
… to the goal of universal access to modern energy by 2030 is the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All). SE4All also recognises the … benefits are equally important if a ‘delivery model’ is to be truly sustainable, so these are also explicitly accounted for.  Overall, by … about end users' needs and preferences is unlikely to deliver sustainable and cost-effective services. Ensuring every house has an …
Insight, 16 September 2013
View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory
Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development
… about the potential for Indigenous biocultural heritage to support sustainable development. Funded by the British Academy , the project … with high potato and maize diversity and traditional barter markets which enhance access to agrobiodiversity for nutrition.   The … in the four communities. They followed up the interviews with focus group discussions in local villages. The researchers also carried out …
Project, 29 April 2019
A street barber in Kolkata, India. It is estimated that the city has nearly 2m street traders (Photo: Nicolas Mirguet, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The other half of the future – business' informal sector
… announced the launch of the Global Commission on Business and Sustainable Development . Its aim is to put business at the heart of … by 20 per cent. Resilient and sustainable? With rich country stock markets flat for the past 12 months, and emerging economy ones on the … [email protected] ) is director of IIED's Sustainable Markets Group . …
Insight, 04 February 2016