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The timber depot of Green Timber, a Chinese-owned timber concession that are licensed to operate in Nampula and Zambezia provinces, Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
China-Africa Forest Governance project
… as sustainable investments, illegal logging and rural livelihoods. Our goal Through research, dialogue and joint action, IIED and its … and Uganda. Project partnerships in these countries, and in China, focus on progress with the China-Africa Forest Governance Learning … practice: Through evidence, capacity building and dialogue, we aim to change specific policy and investment practices. Some of the ways that …
Project, 22 September 2014
Cover for G02776.pdf
Biodiversity at IIED
… been labelled as such. In the late 1980s and early 1990s the main focus came from IIED’s ground-breaking programme on environmental … biodiversity work ranges from agrobiodiversity to apes, from climate change to conservation, and from market mechanisms to mainstreaming. It … and ecosystem-based adaptation. This booklet provides a snapshot of our active projects as well as indicating the major themes where we are …
Publication, 01 September 2010
People gather around a table at an outdoor meeting
Tackling widespread hunger in cities means listening to the urban poor
… to address food and nutrition security from a consumption entry point focus on access to markets and education about nutrition. While these … than the urban poor themselves , we turned over these questions to our long-term partner, the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR). … to ensure their voices are heard so that they are able to influence change in their cities. Between 2017 and 2019, women from ACHR member …
Insight, 05 August 2019
Biodiversity illustration
A brief history of biodiversity at IIED
… In the late 1980s and early 1990s the main focus came from IIED’s ground-breaking programme on environmental … profits from tourism help to benefit the economically poor. Much of our early work on wildlife tourism was published in the IIED Wildlife … work ranges from agricultural biodiversity to apes, from climate change to conservation, and from market mechanisms to mainstreaming. It …
Article, 16 August 2013
Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)
Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management
… experience of combining objectives and instruments is growing, as is our understanding of synergies and trade-offs, and what is necessary to … or which deliver public goods. Both PES and CST involve a reward to change behaviour. While CSTs benefit primarily the person receiving the … to measure impact. One reason could be that many PES schemes lack a focus on equity issues and poverty reduction – or add it almost as an …
Project, 26 April 2016
The Nebbou area, between Ouagadougou and Leo, a dry reservoir used for the manufacture of handmade bricks in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR))
Archive of completed drylands and pastoralist projects
… This video exploring the impact of climate change on pastoralists living in the drylands is one of many videos IIED … years in the drylands In 2011 we commissioned an external review of our drylands programme, which ran from 1987-2009. The review applauded … and our policy influence. It recommended: A continued geographic focus in West and Eastern Africa (French- and English-speaking …
Article, 17 December 2012
Representatives of Indonesia communities discussed ways to improve urban conditions at the third Urban Social Forum (Photo: Fabrizio Salvatori)
Indonesian civil society discusses its urban future
… Since it is not easy to imagine alternatives, it's important to use our imaginations, to dream, to share our ideas, to discuss and really think outside the box. To really bring about change, we need to have a vision of what that change is, otherwise we …
Insight, 21 January 2016
The sky is visible through a forest
Exploring why people eat wild meat – and designing better alternatives
… why rural people eat wild meat . The results from interviews and focus group discussion with around 550 people – women and men, young and … always told me not to eat it. Same with the Hyrax, it’s just not in our tradition to eat it. Gorilla and Chimpanzee look like humans in a … to explain how their hunting and consumption patterns may or may not change under different hypothetical project scenarios. People picked the …
Insight, 29 July 2020
Cover for G01828.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 4 Complementary methods to understand land-use changes: an example from the Ethiopian Rift Valley
… that is, that the area had historically only been used by focusing our attention `not just towards the seasonally by pastoralists. …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Mary Robinson addresses the Development and Climate Days, with (from left to right), Katharine Mach, IPCC; Claudia Martinez, CDKN; Janos Pasztor, UN (Photo: Climate Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mary Robinson: global solidarity needed to confront climate crisis
… extreme poverty by 2030 as their number one goal and climate change impacts are increasingly recognised as a factor driving people … Islands, told the COP21 plenary that "we are in Paris to safeguard our livelihoods and our future" (reported on Twitter ) and recently told … poverty approach could provide solutions that are equitable and focus on the poorest." There is a particular gender angle on climate …
Insight, 09 December 2015