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This farmer in India's Maharashtra state gets weather alerts, advisories about pests and market information via his mobile phone (Photo: Borlaug Institute for South Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)
CBA13: unlocking the power of technology to build climate resilience
Article, 27 February 2019
Discussing climate resilience in Kinna, northern Kenya.
How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway?
Insight, 06 December 2012
A large group of people sit under a tree and talk.
We need more integrity between the treatment of forests at home and abroad
… this week of the new Forest and Farm Facility ? This independent multi-donor trust fund will channel enabling investments into local …
Insight, 02 October 2012
A member of the Sekonyer community gets ready for a day on the Sekonyer river in Borneo, close to the site of recent conflict between a palm oil company and RSPO member and the local community (Photo: Rainforest Action Network via Creative Commons)
Paving a path towards redressing grievances and holding investors accountable
… to the IFC compliance advisor ombudsman. Likewise, commodity-based multi-stakeholder platforms, such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm …
Insight, 07 January 2015
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
Article, 31 December 2015
The Deramakot Forest Reserve, in Sabah, Malaysia, includes a strict protection area for biodiversity conservation and a reduced-impact logging area (Photo: Angela Sevin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Remembering Duncan Poore, a leading light in sustainable forestry
… joined Huntings Technical Services, mastering aerial photography and multi-factor analysis in his commercial agronomic surveys of Cyprus, …
Article, 19 October 2016
Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)
IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
… forest business Pavilion event Date:  Monday, 5 September This multi-stakeholder event launched a book describing eight locally …
Event, 01 September 2016
A man in Uganda stands by a digger sitting next to a dirt road.
US Supreme Court dims a light in corporate accountability
… bodies, and to grievance mechanisms that companies, lenders and multi-stakeholder bodies estalished to deal with complaints. …
Insight, 01 May 2013
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
… targets rather than top-down and siloed goals unlikely to garner the multi-sectoral political support required for their achievement. …
Insight, 25 March 2014
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2016 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2016: publications
Article, 02 January 2017