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Settlement in Solomon Islands.
How climate change losses could open the Solomon Islands’ old wounds
Insight, 25 November 2020
Women harvesting vegetables in Shanggula village, Guangxi province, China, can share lessons on sustainable farming with the rest of the world (Photo: Simon Lim)
Nurturing the shoots of China's sustainable agriculture
… Chinese Centre for Agricultural Policy, and IIED, it draws out some key lessons and recommendations of wider relevance both for China and … academics, government officials, donors and NGO personnel to discuss issues arising in the development of sustainable agriculture and how to … e.g. through cooperatives or through CSA – opens up a whole range of resources and services to farmers. Policy on cooperatives needs to be …
Insight, 23 March 2016
Defining the agenda for Rio +20: my analysis
… planet at Rio in June this year, and to 2015 and beyond. A key summit outcome could be to ask countries to sign up to a number of … text acknowledges that governments have sovereign rights over their natural resources but recognises that we live in an ever-more connected world. … Natural resource management …
Insight, 12 January 2012
A goal worth scoring: Lessons from winning football teams can improve the supply chains of commodities that drive deforestation. Credit: Cusia-Inc
Football’s winning ingredients can help forests in Kenya and Tanzania
… It had dawned on me that the hallmarks of a winning team are also the key ingredients that could transform commodity chains linked to … sustainable sourcing (avoiding deforestation and responsible use of natural resources) and stakeholder value (meeting the needs of producers and … Natural resource management …
Insight, 20 March 2014
We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
… argued that it is time to take action and start removing risks . A key step is ensuring provision of risk-reducing infrastructure and … tension between making cities resilient while ensuring that they use resources efficiently . With their concentrations of people, … amount of resources, consuming up to 70-75 per cent of the world's natural resources. A report by IIED and UN Environment, ' Resilience and …
Article, 22 December 2017
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Introduction to an inclusive blue economy
… or technical means to share in the benefits of our marine and coastal resources or help protect them. And now, the ocean’s ecosystems are … seas, fiscal policies for sustainable management of fisheries and natural capital accounts for small-scale fisheries. Some of the findings are included in our  Action for an ocean for all  long read. Key projects IIED and our partners have been tackling these issues …
Article, 27 November 2019
A woman hands protective equipment to another woman.
Engaging pastoralist communities through citizen movements to amplify their voice
Article, 11 December 2020
Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
Article, 23 December 2020
Women hoeing a field.
Building a women-led community climate movement
Article, 03 December 2020
A man points to a wild chimpanzee up a tree
Markets and payments for environmental services
… market failures. In PES schemes, people managing and using natural resources, typically forest owners or farmers, are paid to manage their … the insecure land and resource tenure of many poor people remains a key obstacle to them participating in and benefiting from PES schemes. … Natural resource management …
Project, 03 October 2008