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Getting local adaptation expertise into global spaces: five key messages we’re taking forward from CBA17
… from over 60 countries to discuss, debate and devise practical ways for driving forward locally led adaptation (LLA) to climate change.  … young people has been to encourage activism at major international policy events such as the UN climate negotiations.   We need youth … communities and their representatives, scientists and engineers for sustainable and scalable integration of their perspectives in planning, …
Insight, 20 June 2023
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Sumaq Kausay and Ayllu: Quechua values and worldviews for conservation and sustainable development in the Chalakuy Maize Park, Lares, Peru
… knowledge and practices effectively combine food production with sustainable development, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem … protection. Although Indigenous Peoples have been living sustainably for generations, few studies have explored the role of different … recommends integrating biocultural heritage and BCHTs into national policy, and the recognition of BCHTs as agrobiodiversity zones. Policies …
Publication, 06 August 2021
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Ecosystem-based adaptation: three ways evidence can influence policymakers
… adaptation's (EbA) effectiveness  and to inform policies and actions for climate, nature and people. As this work drew to a close, IIED spoke with three organisations who are championing integrated approaches for climate and nature, like EbA, in China, Peru and South Africa. Their reflections on their own policy-influencing work and on the two major climate and biodiversity …
Insight, 14 March 2023
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Using digital technology to scan potential for change in sustainable development
… billion.    The growth in digital media provides new opportunities for giving power to people made vulnerable through poverty and climate … to use artificial intelligence to inform more relevant and resonant policy influencing strategies.  What did IIED do?  1. Research and … arguing that the use of technology in climate finance needed an integrated, human-centric approach in order to effectively target funds …
Project, 24 August 2022
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Why traditional knowledge and Indigenous Peoples’ rights must be integrated across the new global biodiversity targets
… body of evidence that the traditional knowledge of IPLCs is critical for addressing the crisis of biodiversity loss. Evidence (PDF)  across … whether Indigenous worldviews and cultural values promote or hinder sustainable and equitable development. The findings show that the Global Biodiversity Framework’s …
Insight, 16 August 2021
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Evaluating sustainable development: how the 2030 Agenda can help
Publication, 01 July 2019
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Incentives for an inclusive green economy
… in the flow of finance. This must be achieved by changing incentives for governments and private investors.     Climate and nature finance … can no longer be a niche topic with set aside funds and modalities. Sustainable finance needs to enter and take over the mainstream. Climate and nature need to be integrated into mainstream public budgets and into conventional …
Article, 06 September 2022
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“Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains
… in commercial agriculture in the Global South has been welcomed for its potential to bring capital into long neglected rural areas, but … of local land and labor into global supply chains. In global development policy and discourse, the concept of “inclusive business” has become …
Publication, 01 May 2020
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Strengthening development in the face of the climate crisis and environmental destruction
Insight, 31 October 2019
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Strengthening land governance, local to global
… Land governance is an increasingly prominent issue in international policy agendas, cutting across public concerns about economic development, ecological integrity, social justice and cultural … ‘on the ground’. There is a need to develop practical approaches for securing local land rights, and to feed insights into policy …
Project, 04 June 2020