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Our annual report highlights pathways to change (Photo: Olivier Girard/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED Annual Report 2017/18
… Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in international negotiations on climate change . LDCs have most at stake, but are least able to cope … (FFPOs). The FFF vision is that smallholders, communities, and indigenous peoples and women's organisations have improved livelihoods … the globe,  IIED’s Communications Group  emphasises accessibility, knowledge sharing, and innovative ways to start conversations.  During …
Page, 24 October 2018
A farmer in the Potato Park, Peru (Photo: Adam Kerby)
A marriage to save the earth: Farmers and researchers innovate to conserve biodiversity
… The qualitative baseline study conducted with 64 smallholder and indigenous farming communities revealed that over the past 30 years the … changes to how they live and farm in order to adapt to a changing climate. They have innovated to survive, changing the ways they support … and practices to confront these challenges,  using traditional knowledge and crop varieties, alongside modern technologies. In coastal …
Insight, 07 October 2014
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IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)
… wildlife and people. The forum also saw an increased participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities. Co-convened by the African … biological and cultural diversity, between science and indigenous knowledge systems. The summit was an opportunity for reflection, … results from the Potato Park and the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment, Peru The Darwin Initiative – past, present …
Event, 17 November 2018
Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal (Photo: Sajal Sthapit)
Risky business: assessing potential impacts of REDD+ in Nepal
… prepare to engage with REDD+ , a scheme being negotiated at the UN climate change talks to financially reward countries for reducing … How will food security be affected? How will REDD+ involve and affect indigenous people, women and other marginalised groups? Will natural … includes activities to reduce risks the SESA identifies. Levels of knowledge about REDD+ and SESA remain low among many groups in Nepal, …
Insight, 09 April 2014
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
… was set up in 2001 and collaborated directly with local farming and indigenous communities in regenerating biodiversity-rich farming and … to co-manage rangelands with the government, using indigenous knowledge and new insights from the science of non-equilibrium ecology to adapt to the impacts of climate change in fragile agro-ecosystems. In Peru, work was carried out …
Project, 14 August 2013
United Nations decision prompts potato celebration in Peru
… varieties at the ‘Potato Park’, an innovative collaboration between indigenous communities and the International Potato Center, a globally … because intellectual property rights, neoliberal development models, climate change and genetically modified crops all pose threats to the … he says. "We want to highlight the importance of traditional knowledge systems and customary laws that have allowed this crop to …
News, 31 October 2007
UN food treaty on plant genetic resources must protect farmers’ rights
… rights in various ways, such as: • Protecting rights over traditional knowledge to ensure benefit-sharing from commercial use • Ensuring … and so limiting the options farmers have to adapt to a changing climate, which has implications for global food security." The FAO Treaty recognises the enormous contribution that indigenous and local communities and farmers have made to the …
News, 14 March 2011
Non-literate farmer filmmakers help save biodiversity
… to increase people’s livelihoods options and ability to adapt to climate change. It also created stable local markets for marginalised … Development Society. "People felt both respected and empowered in the knowledge that they would be working with and communicating about this … action to secure rights, resilience and human well being. Farmers, indigenous peoples and other citizens have to be centre stage in this …
News, 14 May 2008
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… stocks due to the effects of habitat destruction, over-fishing and climate change. The animation produced by our Sustainable Markets Group … COP20 planned final text just before the conclusion of the summit. Indigenous imagery Our work alongside partners to profile indigenous … ' in May, ' Citizen power: Sustaining paralegal programmes to put knowledge back into communities' hands ' in October, and ' Paving a path …
Insight, 12 January 2015
Annual report 2007/08
… human face of sustainable development. Featured project highlights Climate change Making adaptation planning fully democratic:  thanks to … and beyond. Governance/FIELD Defending Peru’s living legacy:  the indigenous farmers of Cusco grow 2,000 varieties of potato. IIED’s legal … new opportunities for teaching, learning, creating and communicating knowledge. Bringing Southern media to the climate talks:  Northern …
Page, 23 December 2008