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A woman farmer bends over to tend crops in a field
One-size-fits-all policies won’t deliver sustainable farming in Africa
… increasing their production without creating harmful social and environmental impacts. Many policymakers see SAI as a vitally important … some productivity enhancing mechanisms and technologies have harmful environmental and social impacts in the longer term.”  She says public … Policy and planning …
News, 26 April 2020
Man looks at two chimpanzees on a forest path
Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
… scope, and ambition of UWA’s exciting new community conversation policy and, with Ugandan communities facing a challenging situation due … in wildlife conservation. Similarly, the 1999 National Wildlife Policy recognised community participation in wildlife management and … no tourists at all. Similarly, the Kibale Association for Rural and Environmental Development (KAFRED) around Bigodi village Kibale National …
Article, 21 July 2020
Maasai men herding cattle
VITAL Climate Collective: connecting demand for climate adaptation needs with supply of climate finance
… drylands.  This has resulted in communities bearing the financial, environmental and social residual risks. Overlapping forms of … on the commercial viability of investments as well as the social and environmental returns. VITAL addresses this information gap by … net revenues, available resources and value chains, existing enabling policy structures and services, context specific opportunities and …
Project, 01 July 2024
Citizens reframing conservation policies and practice for food and livelihood security, environmental sustainability and justice
… members and a wider community of practice to explore solutions to environmental problems that are holistic, inclusive, equitable, and … peoples’ and other relevant actors such as IUCN’s Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy ( http://www.iucn.org/about/union/commissions/ceesp/ ), this … Policy and planning …
Article, 15 July 2009
The field team designing a REDD strategy talk to farmer Nimale Maribu Saidi as part of their field research in Meceburi Forest Reserve, Mozambique .Photo by Mike Goldwater
Inclusive environmental investments
… poverty at the same time. This links with our work on payments for environmental services and previous work on company-community … of deforestation. How the private sector is engaged in REDD+ and what policy and institutional frameworks exist to enable this to happen . … Inclusive environmental investments …
Project, 07 September 2013
User guide to tools for environmental integration
… Industry must be energy- and water-efficient. Poor people’s environmental deprivations must be tackled in development activity. Their environmental rights must be recognised and supported. Environmental institutions need to work more closely together with other … Policy and planning … User guide to tools for environmental integration …
Project, 01 September 2008
Landscape in Punakha, Bhutan
Supporting LDCs to strengthen national legislative and policy responses in line with international climate commitments
… the least developed countries (LDCs) to strengthen institutional, policy and legislative structures at the national level through … Contributions (NDCs), many LDCs will require assessing existing policy and legislative frameworks and amending them or developing new … operates within distinct political, institutional, socioeconomic and environmental contexts, sharing experiences with each other is …
Project, 18 September 2018
UNESCO considers Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area to be of global importance for biodiversity conservation, but it faces significant development pressure from tourism (Photo: Justin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mainstreaming nature and biodiversity into wider planning and policy
… As with many other environmental assets, like clean water, biodiversity is unpriced and its … concerns must be taken into wider climate and development planning, policy and projects. Equally, poverty and livelihoods issues must be … development action we are: Building on IIED’s broader experience of environmental mainstreaming to integrate both biodiversity and …
Article, 16 August 2013
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China's path to a green economy: decoding China’s green economy concepts and policies
… iii) identifying relevant sectoral policies and players in finance, environmental industry, energy, forestry, urbanisation and industrial …
Publication, 01 February 2015
Headshot of Tom Mitchell with IIED logo in the top right corner.
IIED appoints new executive director
… programme at the Overseas Development Institute, supported UN policy on disaster risk reduction, and served as a coordinating lead … "I am excited to have this opportunity to strive for social and environmental justice, and to build on the outstanding work that Andrew …
News, 04 April 2022