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Pa Ousman Jarju has written an open letter to US President Barack Obama (Photo: Steve Jurvetson via http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
Letter to America: Gambia envoy asks Obama directly for US climate leadership
… Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) report indicates that the evidence of human-caused climate-change impacts is unequivocal, and that increased … from climate-related disasters. Both will set back decades of human development efforts and create new security risks for the world.   …
News, 06 June 2014
Cover for G00278.pdf
IIED Annual Report 2003/04 - Urban Matters
… This special annual report - Urban Matters, celebrates 30 years of Human Settlements work at IIED …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Dr John Ingram speaking on food security at IIED (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
IIED 'Critical Theme' seminar: Climate change and food security
Event, 12 February 2015
Downtown Dar es Salaam: the largest city in Tanzania is on track to have a population over 50 million (Photo: Babak Fakhamzadeh, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The shifting power of cities
Insight, 05 October 2016
Cambodia's rural population is heavily reliant on small-scale rice production. The Clean Sugar Campaign campaigns against large-scale plantations that push smallholders off their land (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Holding actors in agricultural investment chains to account
… have damaging impacts, such as loss of land, loss of livelihoods or human rights abuses. When negative impacts occur, communities are often … sustainable sugar cane They filed a complaint with the Thailand Human Rights Commission Affected communities initiated a mediation … European Parliament called on the European Commission to investigate human rights abuses in Cambodia and to suspend trade preferences on …
Insight, 22 October 2015
Director Camilla Toulmin sets out IIED's strategy for 2014 to 2019
IIED director offers a strategic view
… each of four research themes: climate change, natural resources, human settlements and sustainable markets.   She speaks in detail about …
News, 02 April 2014
Cover for G01055.pdf
ABS and Poverty: Practical Approaches for Reducing Poverty through ABS
… to poverty alleviation and be supportive to the realisation of human food security, health and cultural integrity, especially in … plays a critical role in poverty eradication, and is essential to human well-being, livelihood and cultural integrity. It also recognises …
Publication, 01 March 2006
Making sure the poor benefit from ecosystem services
… scientists and economists to examine how ecosystem services support human security, health and wellbeing met with Stephen O’Brien, …
Insight, 08 February 2012
Farmers in Nepal. Nepal has introduced a range of strategies and policies to tackle climate change (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Author Q&A: Trends in climate change legislation
Article, 08 May 2018
Camilla Toulmin: "The IPCC report.. concludes that no parts of the world are free from the risks of 'severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts'" (Photo: Google licence)
IIED responds to IPCC climate change report
… climate change is happening and that all warming since 1951 is due to human activity.  The AR5 report also confirms that climate change is … out of date as more and more scientific evidence accumulates about human induced climate change impacts affecting vulnerable communities. …
News, 03 November 2014