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A women farmer tends crops on a dried river pond
Transparent climate reporting in Malawi: what’s needed, what’s next?
Insight, 03 October 2019
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… knowledge is effective in conserving biodiversity and regulating sustainable resource use, including hunting, wild harvesting, fishing, … and the sacred and ancestral. Rather than focusing on economic development, their goal is holistic wellbeing, which is achieved through … of the sectors that are driving their loss, including agriculture, mining and forestry, if the diversity of life is to survive. This …
Insight, 18 February 2020
The video 'Meet Mr Forest' was presented at the 2nd Beijing Documentary Week in August 2018 (Photo: Rachel E. Berkley/IIED)
New IIED videos inform Chinese consumers about Africa's forests
… founder of the 'Mr Forest' company in Mozambique, and a pioneer of sustainable Chinese investment in the country. The four-minute film was … natural resources to China. He is a true pioneer: he has promoted sustainable operating practices, adopted Chinese government guidelines … businesses involved in forestry, agribusiness, infrastructure and mining activities, as well as African policymakers and civil society. In …
News, 21 August 2018
Women pulling fishing nets through shallow water
Steering gender to the centre of the blue economy
… Momentum is building for exploring how the blue economy – sustainable use of marine resources that supports economic growth and … important sectors, such as fisheries, maritime shipping, deep-sea mining, renewable energy and tourism, the potential return on investment … in research and policy agendas – for example the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 5 – is helping to push the issue into blue economy …
Insight, 06 June 2019
Protection for high seas is crucial to safeguarding vulnerable coastal communities – new research
… They are also crucial to the life cycles of fish stocks, their development and migration as well as for carbon sequestration, which is … including from plastic contamination and shipping, overfishing, mining and geoengineering experiments. The research shows how coastal … under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of ABNJ. …
News, 11 March 2019
Surveying residents in the settlement of Tank Mohalla, Bangalore, India (Photo: CSTEPIN, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Local democracy as a substitute for data (and rather a good substitute too)
… who suffer deprivations as legitimation for the entire aid and development business. Data to measure and monitor the global goals and … have agreed to (or hopefully will agree to within the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is also an enthusiasm for mining existing datasets. All this was highlighted by A World That …
Insight, 16 January 2015
Richard Sandbrook Memorial Lecture
… Before he died, environmentalist and champion for sustainable development Richard Sandbrook said the best way his friends and … overfishing has wiped several species of fish out of the market; and mining concessions are destroying major forests such as the Amazon. …
News, 23 March 2011
IIED's 2015-16 Annual Report (Image: Arc/IIED)
IIED's 2015/2016 annual report focuses on partnership
… Norton said 2015 saw a important shift in the global agenda, with development recognised as a universal enterprise that has sustainability … (LDC-IEG),  an informal group of experts with a deep commitment  to sustainable development. The group provides independent advice and … China-Africa in the forest sector".  An  artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) dialogue,  organised with Ghanian NGO Friends of the Nation …
News, 01 November 2016
Aurelio Fuastino lives near a primary forest in Mozambique. He sees the forest as an important source of many products including medicinal plants. He and other villages have no control over loggers who have been given licenses in the forest (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
IIED seminar on locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples
… peoples. The seminar presented examples of successful self-determined development, including those based on local land use plans and community … of peoples who live in forests and works to promote community-based sustainable forest management. The meeting also featured a presentation … for development by industries such as logging, agribusiness and mining.   FPP was set up in 1990 to support indigenous forest peoples in …
Event, 07 July 2015
Seaweed farmers in Indonesia (Photo: Hiswaty Hafid/USAid, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Focusing the blue economy future on small-scale fisheries
… these days, ranging from discussions about the impact of large-scale mining companies, to the role of specialist marine security fleets, to … advisors and from the right government policies, can be part of a sustainable blue economy. It’s about finding fisheries’ true value The … and enforcement of policies is a better and fairer way to promote sustainable practices. So what does this all add up to? There seems to …
Insight, 18 February 2019