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Fishermen offloading their morning catch from a fishing boat in Kalindi, West Bengal (Photo: Souvik Das Gupta, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Creating waves for small-scale fisheries
… monitoring processes – offer an important platform for mainstreaming the guidelines into national fishery plans that support … small-scale fisheries into disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change planning Communities living on exposed coastlines are …
Insight, 17 November 2016
women distributing counting eggs
New narratives for a 'new normal'
… and advising their peers on reducing impacts of disaster and climate change. What’s more, such exchanges have attracted the attention of … community networks and maintain their visibility as drivers of development. As movements and networks gain public recognition, they are …
Insight, 22 July 2020
A traditional farmer selects seeds in the Eastern Himalayas, India. (Photo: Ruchi Pant/Ecoserve)
Making the business case for biodiversity — in an instant
… and food security and strengthen communities' ability to adapt to climate change? Members of the project say this approach has helped them to … Two more from the project – a rapid diagnostic tool for biodiversity mainstreaming and Ten steps to mainstreaming biodiversity – went in a …
Insight, 10 March 2014
Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons)
IIED's best of 2014: blogs
Article, 31 December 2014
Biodiversity illustration
A brief history of biodiversity at IIED
… biodiversity work ranges from agricultural biodiversity to apes, from climate change to conservation, and from market mechanisms to mainstreaming. It includes issues critical to the Convention on …
Article, 16 August 2013
Annual report 2009/10
… out the future to pay for the present. Featured project highlights Climate change Adaptation after Copenhagen:  in the Least Developed Countries, … work. Going mainstream:  strategic environmental assessment – key to mainstreaming environment and development into policy – made headway …
Page, 21 October 2010
Old woman in profile in front of thatched hut and mud house. Niger.
Making gender and generation matter
… on poverty reduction and sustainable development. Background Social change is closely intertwined with the articulation between production …   Raising the profile of Gender and Generation: The role of the Climate Change Media Partnership : this paper details the initiatives … must be part of a process of social and institutional change. ' Mainstreaming gender and climate change in Nepal ' examines one dynamic …
Project, 26 April 2011
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
… a practical difference – where the barriers between research and development had been broken down.  In the 1987 IIED annual report, it says "change is in the air… with the Brundtland Report Our Common Future … for four years, collecting household data on livelihoods, assets, climate, land use, water and livestock. This research became my PhD …
Insight, 22 June 2015
Local voice, global forest, local forest, global voice
… a vital component in any realistic strategy going forward to address climate change mitigation and adaptation. So who is this group and where has it … Guatemala, Liberia, Mozambique and Nepal. Spearheaded by its work in mainstreaming the process of partnership building , GFP was able to …
Insight, 17 January 2011
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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012
… Using Ecosystems and Traditional Knowledge to Help People Adapt to Climate Change: Building the Evidence Base This workshop will evaluate the … Frequently Asked Questions – Ten Policy Implications Look both ways: mainstreaming biodiversity and poverty reduction Social assessment of …
Event, 16 August 2012