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Miombo woodlands in Southeast Tanzania. But can remote sensing technologies accurately detect the woodlands (Photo: Samuel Bowers)
How much can the eyes in the sky really tell us about deforestation?
… Africa is home to 25 per cent of the world's remaining rainforests and 17 per cent … Nations (FAO), the continent lost around 87 million hectares of natural forests between 1990 and 2015, driven mainly by small-scale … Jones ([email protected]) is a researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group ; Samuel Bowers ([email protected]) is a …
Insight, 11 January 2017
'Imagine Bwindi', by Ugandan musician Richard Kawesa, is expected to reach thousands of people, from local communities living around Bwindi to policymakers (Photo: PCI Media Impact)
'Imagine Bwindi' music video launched on World Wildlife Day
… and Conservation Learning Group (U-PCLG) to celebrate the beauty and natural resources of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and its links with the … media, such as talk shows, music videos, and comic strips. Bwindi is home to an estimated 400 endangered mountain gorillas. Located in the …
News, 03 March 2015
A group of people standing outside
Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
Article, 14 June 2021
International experts on gender and employment participating in an IIED gender workshop in 2014 (Photo: Lucille Robinson/IIED)
Gender in the workplace: do families always have to lose out?
… and women, particularly in developing countries, who are struck by natural disasters and climate change, who live in challenging … work. We care about their rights, their livelihoods, their access to resources (financial, technologies and human capital). We seek to … gender equality and how we can address the inequalities at work, at home and in the poor and marginalised communities that we work with. …
Insight, 15 May 2015
An image of a man faking injury being treated by a Bangladesh firefighter as part of a training exercise on collaborative search and rescue operations, helping the city to respond more effectively to disasters (Photo: Oregon National Guard, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Making the SDG agenda work for LDCs
Article, 25 May 2016
Elephant yams growing on a forested slope in Myanmar.
Myanmar: Could an unusual yam help the march of community forestry?
… out shifting cultivation, they are also establishing more permanent home gardens boasting a rich diversity of agricultural and tree crops … conditions for Elephant Foot Yam. Compared to an income per acre of about US$ 215-320 for maize, the income per acre from Elephant Foot Yam … to offer small grants to strengthen forest and farm producer group’s capacity for profitable business using different crops and in …
Insight, 17 May 2013
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
… level. She said: "Where we want to go: we want to see the ecological resources being developed, and sustainable development being undertaken … here. Improving market access for pastoralists Some 95% of Africa's natural rangelands are considered degraded, leaving pastoralist … in the negotiating rooms must be translated into tangible action at home, and must also be informed by and learn from local solutions that …
Article, 04 April 2019
Costa Rica's Peñas Blancas Reservoir is the focus of work involving payments for ecosystem services (Photo: Dr Ina Porras)
Payments for ecosystem services: We can't leave people out of the equation
… something remains common to them all.  The message that really hit home to me is that while PES schemes are about economics and the … ecosystem services. These schemes can alleviate poverty and conserve natural resources but only if designed properly and with the needs and …
Insight, 28 March 2014
Fatima Denton, a member of IIED’s Independent Expert Group, speaking at the Development and Climate Days conference (Photo: Matt Wright)
Zero carbon – costs and opportunities for Least Developed Countries
Insight, 10 December 2015
Some ecological settings, such as drylands, which are home to a high proportion of the world’s poor, are poorly studied and have become the neglected 'ugly duckling' of biodiversity research (Photo: Marie Monimart)
What we know about how biodiversity and poverty are linked: The good, the bad and the ugly
… duckling' of biodiversity research. Drylands, in particular, are home to a high proportion of the world’s poor, and these people's … richer evidence base. Dilys Roe is a principal researcher in IIED's natural resources group ( [email protected] ). This post was first published on … What we know about how biodiversity and poverty are linked: The good, the bad and the …
Insight, 31 March 2014