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Community reblocking to improve settlement design and the quality of the neighbourhood in Namibia (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Namibia shows how to support low cost housing
… to Namibia 31st-4th of March 2011.  Diana Mitlin (diana.mitlin@iied.org) is a principal researcher with IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 13 June 2014
An accountability charter for conservation NGOs
… local communities seeking solutions for damage or loss suffered. What IIED did To guarantee that conservation organisations can meet the … respecting the rights and needs of those affected by their actions, IIED and FIELD worked with a number of conservation NGOs to explore the …
Project, 05 June 2008
Cover for G02366.pdf
Small forestry enterprises: Drivers of sustainable development? Report of a side event for The seventh session of the United Nations Forum on Forests
… processes, business support structures and markets. James Mayers of IIED chaired the event with Duncan Macqueen of IIED and Andy White of the Rights and Resources Initiative setting the …
Publication, 01 April 2007
The fruit market is dominated by a small number of varieties that can withstand long distance shipping and meet supermarket demands for uniformity (Photo: Dirk Loop, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why food diversity must be on the menu
… with their fork. Through the Sustainable Diets for All programme , IIED and Hivos are working with citizens to promote diets that are … fairer, sustainable – and more diverse. Seth Cook ( seth.cook@iied.org ) is a senior researcher in IIED's agroecology and China teams. This blog was orginally posted by …
Insight, 14 October 2016
Cover for 9558IIED.pdf
Forestry contractors in South Africa: what role in reducing poverty?
Publication, 01 June 2005
Cover for 9559IIED.pdf
Small-scale timber production in South Africa: what role in reducing poverty?
Publication, 01 June 2005
Cover for 12501IIED.pdf
Lessons learned from conflict management work in the Karamojong Cluster
Publication, 01 June 2005
Cover for G01069.pdf
Protecting traditional knowledge: a framework based on customary laws and biocultural heritage
… IIED Paper for the International Conference on Endogenous Development … 3-5 October 2006, Geneva. This paper is based on the work of IIED and research and indigenous partners in Peru, Panama, India, Kenya … knowledge, biodiversity and livelihoods. Experience is drawn from IIED’s collaborative research, with particular reference to the work of …
Publication, 01 October 2006
Video: Global Food and Farming Futures Foresight report
Video: Global Food and Farming Futures Foresight report
… for Development (GCARD2) in Uruguay, Camilla Toulmin, the director of IIED, and Charles Godfrey, director of the Oxford Martin Programme on …
News, 30 October 2012
Manganese mining in Gabon (Photo: jbdodane, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD)
… all the material previously available from the former website www.iied.org/mmsd. All project documents, including the MMSD Working paper … Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), they commissioned IIED to undertake a scoping study in May 1999 to set out the global … of the sector in the transition to sustainable development. A team of IIED researchers reviewed existing initiatives and materials, and …
Project, 03 March 2009