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‘Virtuous circles’ can help secure food supplies and address climate change
… farmed fish whose bones are used as fertiliser in a market garden. Human waste via a compost toilet also enriches the garden, whose crops … and re-localised to sustain diverse local ecologies, economies and human well being,” she writes. “The authors rightly emphasise the need …
News, 22 November 2011
Cover for G03204.pdf
Silent voices, unrealised rights – championing youth participation in Zimbabwe (PLA 64)
… the importance of conducting in-depth power analysis and applying a human rights based approach while implementing a participatory …
Publication, 01 December 2011
Annual report 2007/08
… and partners shaping futures all around the globe: in short, the human face of sustainable development. Featured project highlights … airlines to shrink their flight emissions. Giving climate change a human face:  IIED – one of the first NGOs to recognise and act on … world’s ocean area is outside national jurisdiction, threatened by human activity and largely unprotected. A potential solution is the …
Page, 23 December 2008
Cover for G01099.pdf
Fifth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Statement by IIED, Andes (Peru) and Call of the Earth
… of the Earth, a group of indigenous experts, addressing the issue of Human Rights and the protection of indigenous bio-cultural heritage, …
Publication, 01 May 2006
An Ethiopian government delegation learns about energy innovations in a climate smart village in Kenya. Ethiopia's government hopes to combine climate resilience with economic growth (Photo: CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What's happening to aid to the Least Developed Countries?
Insight, 18 January 2016
Men queue in front of a table. A woman hands them bags.
Humanitarian action is part of climate response – but must be early and locally led
Insight, 13 October 2021
Cover for G02516.pdf
Assessing policy influences on people’s relationship to water ecosystem services: The Kenyan experience
… over space and time, insufficient financial, technological and human resources, insufficient data on water resources, poverty and …
Publication, 01 January 2007
Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)
IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
… to global challenges such as climate change, health and supporting human life. The work of IIED Members of IIED's Natural Resources Group … services of PAs, and efforts to conserve these, contribute to human wellbeing in the broadest sense How PA conservation initiatives … techniques of contemplation of nature and discussion on the basic human need to connect with nature. As a biological organism the …
Event, 12 November 2014
Cover for G03122.pdf
IIED/Hivos Provocation Insights 2: Rights-based versus marketbased development: a false dichotomy for small-scale farmers?
… policy and discourse have become steeped in the language of human rights. Indeed, a rights-based approach is the starting point for …
Publication, 01 March 2011
Cover for 10536IIED.pdf
Toward synergistic rural-urban development: The experience of the Rural Urban Partnership Programme (RUPP) in Nepal
… to a development strategy and that regions, as the platform for human society rather than artificial division between rural and urban, …
Publication, 01 June 2006