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Gordon Conway speaking in front of a microphone.
Remembering Gordon Conway (1938-2023)
… . Amid his many achievements, he made a critical contribution to IIED’s sustainable agriculture programme in the 1980s. Conway’s work … sow the seeds for the sustainable food and agriculture projects which IIED staff and partners undertake today. Sir Gordon passed away on 30 … colleagues benefited, including myself. He was very generous, opening doors, bringing you into new arenas where important stuff was happening, …
News, 06 October 2023
Exercises helped the Food Change Lab group trust one another
Food, sisterhood and dreams
… first session of the Food Change Lab held in Bolivia by the Hivos and IIED Sustainable Diets for All programme . The participants formed a … and La Paz was no exception. Knowing you’re being listened to opens many doors. Although most of us were strangers, it just took a few exercises …
Insight, 16 October 2018
Financiers, decision makers, practitioners and researchers from across the globe gathered to share lessons and their experience in channelling finance to local levels (Image: Matt Wright/IIED)
Money where it matters: how to deliver finance to the local level
… the money will go and how it will get there. This was the subject of IIED's 'Money where it matters' event last week, where financiers, … aggregator effect of federations, local governments and cooperatives opens the door to reaching large numbers of projects and even large … – it's not as if there is a lack of funding available," said IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite. In other cases, scaling up can't …
Insight, 15 December 2016
A traditional dance festival attracts tourists in Romania's Maramures Nature Park. The park was designed as a multifunctional protected landscape and was zoned to reflect both environmental priorities and economic needs of local people (Photo: Radu Pop/UNDP, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Equity, justice and ecosystem services: what do we mean?
… these concepts in a specific context. The Natural Resources Group at IIED is taking up this challenge, focusing in particular on the contexts … policy and practice then let's work with this. But even if there are open doors for discussing equity in REDD+ and PA we won't make much progress …
Insight, 11 May 2015