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IIED and partner events at COP25
Event, 02 December 2019
Lesotho's population is heavily dependent on agriculture. Drying river systems threaten a lack of drinking water for livestock (Photo: Jonas Merian, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Legalise Paris agreement
Article, 24 November 2015
Richard Sandbrook Memorial Lecture
… planet,” she explained, adding that both renewable and non-renewable natural resources are coming to an end. Rivers, oceans and forests are all under … really growth?” asked Kakabadse. Such measures take no account of the key issues in society and nature: the number of healthy people in our …
News, 23 March 2011
The data for Chinchiná river basin water accounts will be collected in 2015. Making Colombian decision makers interested in using the data requires focused, relevant communication that responds to their priorities (Photo: Rosalind Goodrich/IIED)
Reminder to self: information supply needs to be driven by demand
… communication and engagement strategy around promoting the concept of natural capital accounting (NCA). Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of … levels and the economic consequences of losing particular natural resources. As we met with a wide group of representatives from … the data that had been collected, and instead, having identified key individuals or types, working out how each of them might be able to …
Insight, 23 February 2015
For the first time, IIED has produced a bespoke online annual report (Photo: IIED/We are Tangerine)
2014 annual report: online and in print
News, 11 November 2014
This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
2014: the International Year of Family Farming
… IIED's work on family and smallholder farming cuts across many of the issues highlighted above, and focuses in particular on poor farmers in … governments to secure community rights over land and land based resources. Smallholder and family farms play a key role in urban as well as rural markets, and our work on Regoverning …
Article, 22 April 2014
A new radish variety shown off by Dayanand Joshi
As climate changes, Himalayan farmers return to traditional crops
… weather. Making sure communities have the food they need is key. Not just in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals’ … by climate change. This requires agricultural systems that sustain natural resources, biodiversity and traditional crop varieties that give options …
Insight, 29 October 2018
A woman miner in Tanzania, who features in a film on stories of change on artisanal and small-scale mining (Image: IIED)
Best of 2017: videos
… can be an excellent tool for informing policymakers about complex issues. The Global Water Initiative – West Africa works with farmers and governments to … to help decision makers. He described IIED's work to identify the key characteristics of better evidence and  a series of …
Article, 12 January 2018
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
Article, 04 April 2019
Women opening the fruit of the marula tree to extract the kernel for making marula oil (Photo: CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Encouraging collaboration: drafting a new law to stop biopiracy in Namibia
… Biopiracy – the appropriation of the knowledge and genetic resources of indigenous communities without permission or compensation – … from the utilisation of genetic resources. Namibia had played a key role in the negotiations on the protocol.  Participants ranging from … a letter of consent from a local leader to research or export a natural product. Kairabeb points out that traditional leaders will need …
Article, 21 March 2016