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In the absence of electricity, students in Bangladesh are given charger lights so they can study at home (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Ensuring an Energy Sustainable Development Goal delivers for poor people and the planet
… framework to eradicate poverty and move towards truly sustainable development. While it mentioned dozens of development issues crucial to … gender inequalities is therefore essential to promote transformative change. Concrete indicators on bringing gender budgeting into energy … depends on environmental sustainability Without tackling dangerous climate change, it will not be possible to eradicate poverty and ensure …
Insight, 25 March 2014
Fishermen hauling in a net
Accounting for small-scale fisheries and the ocean
… the country’s ability to fulfil its commitments to sustainable development (such as SDG14 (life under water), SDG2 (zero hunger) and … fishing and urban developments.   4. How can we predict and adapt to change? A limited capacity to predict, understand and prepare for change is aggravated by climate change, which threatens severe impacts on fish stocks. Other …
Project, 05 August 2019
While one of the objectives of the 2014 World Day to Combat Desertification is to strengthen the visibility of the drylands on the international environmental agenda, much more is needed (Photo: Marie Monimart)
Celebrating the drylands
Insight, 17 June 2014
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Youth and the city
… rural–urban linkages. Themes for other papers include: prioritizing climate change adaptation in Durban; grassroots organizations building … in Dhaka; vulnerability of poor communities to flooding in Lagos; mainstreaming climate change adaptation in Indian cities; the food price …
Publication, 01 October 2010
Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity
… – innovation systems to strengthen food security in the face of climate change. The five-year project worked with indigenous and traditional … biodiversity into agriculture and development sectors. Without such mainstreaming, it is unlikely that the new 2020 framework will succeed …
Article, 18 October 2018
The CBD COP13 logo. IIED and partners will be at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December
IIED at the biodiversity COP in Cancun
… with partners to highlight research findings, including work on mainstreaming biodiversity, forest conservation and rural livelihood … and enhancing agrobiodiversity for food security in the face of climate change, and explore novel approaches for customary sustainable use and …
Event, 04 December 2016
Afghan farmers and extension workers assess an okra field in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan (Photo: Barbara Adoph/IIED)
Introduction to building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems
… agriculture and food systems and their resilience to the effects of climate change. Farmers and pastoralists in many parts of the world are losing … Aid to help integrate climate risk assessments and better climate adaptation into their programme design, building on farmers’ own … Climate change …
Article, 05 August 2013
Bolivian family farming organisations show a poster about their award-winning coffee business development activity at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Modern food systems to emerge in new decade of family farming
… helping these men and women farmers to adapt to, and mitigate, climate change – a modern solution to problems cause by an outdated industrial … approach.   Family farms helping to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals Many of the organisations present in Bilbao are …
Insight, 04 April 2019
The star anise fruit resembles stars: the Thach Ngoa group has five hectares of Illicium verum trees ready for harvest (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Star spice in Vietnam's forests
… system, in a way that will help them both mitigate and adapt to climate change. Building locally-controlled forest business models of this type … is also seeking to build membership-based producer organisations. Mainstreaming towards policy reform Working with farmers unions to …
Insight, 05 August 2015
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Biodiversity at IIED
… IIED’s biodiversity work ranges from agrobiodiversity to apes, from climate change to conservation, and from market mechanisms to mainstreaming. It includes issues critical to the Convention on …
Publication, 01 September 2010