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Local forest workers in Cambodia, one of the regions studied for a new report (Photo: Frontier Cambodia Forest via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Four ways to support locally controlled forestry and benefit people and the planet
… to provide food, energy, water and income and help to stabilise our changing climate," says Duncan Macqueen, principal researcher in … House and the Rights and Resources Initiative on 19-20 May, will focus on policies and regulations such as the EU's Forest Law … Asia 2014 Summit brought challenges for smallholder foresters into focus. Ways forward included: managing risks in investments with …
News, 19 May 2014
Woman selling vegetables
Agricultural contracts and farmer agency: a shift in perspective
… agribusinesses – integrate farmers in their supply chains. This focus mirrors prevailing development approaches, which prioritise … with key terms determined by contracts they are not party to. In our report, we develop the notion of 'contracting chains' to describe …
Insight, 16 May 2021
Two men sat behind a desk chat to one another, with the Forest Governance Learning Group logo in the background
Forest Governance Learning Group
… institutions, policy decisions and practical systems. From our research, we know that  small teams working together can have a big … trade in legal forest products, and Advocating for pro-poor climate change mitigation and adaptation through forestry. China's growing …
Project, 07 September 2013
Annual reports 2001-2006
… from IIED's Publications Library IIED Annual Report 2004/05: Climate change The 2004/05 Annual Report focuses on the global challenge of … provides a comprehensive review of IIED’s work and achievements from our programmes over the past year and insight on new areas into which we … Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg. WSSD provided a crucial focus for everyone concerned with environment and development during the …
Page, 18 April 2005
The UK flag and the logo for the Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable development in the UK – an issue for party manifestos?
… Environment Secretary John Gummer put it in 1993: "We've all got to change... schools, parents, families, old people. We cannot pay for our development out of our children's purses." Even when the SDC was … Development Goals in the UK report recognises the government's strong focus on the UK's international role and the use of development funding …
Insight, 03 May 2017
A toilet block in Mumbai, India, where people living in different informal settlements experience distinct forms of inadequate sanitation (Photo: Renu Desai)
Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem
… states, while elsewhere the key challenge is more about behavioral change. Almost everywhere gender is – or should be – central to … in the contexts, lives and perceptions of the poor. For example, our 'everyday sanitation' project with Renu Desai and Steve Graham in … of entitlement reveal the networked nature of sanitation perceptions. Our hope is that attention to what different groups expect and …
Insight, 26 August 2015
The morning fish auction at Mumbai's Ferry Wharf. Thousands of boats fish along the coast, putting acute pressure on fish stocks (Photo: lecercle, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Shaking the money pot to protect nature
… such as the Aichi targets, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). I joined a selected … to biodiversity finance to look at how well governments spend our money. This means understanding linkages, prioritising needs, and realigning existing expenditures to meet financing gaps. The focus, it says, is not only about new and more resources but on changing …
Insight, 25 July 2017
A women puts food into an outdoor oven
Keeping Bolivia’s culture alive through food
… We need food for much more than nurturing our bodies. Food is crucial for building and strengthening cultures. It … because of its nutritious value and its ability to withstand climate change. It used to be a staple of the Bolivian diet but demand for the …
Insight, 18 June 2019
Better communication is key to wise use of Nature's riches
… vast quantities of carbon that would otherwise contribute to climate change. They are also the source of many important medicines. More than … means and what can be done about it. For this to happen, we must focus on how the fate of biodiversity will affect our health, our wealth and our children's future. We must focus on the …
Insight, 19 October 2010
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… that drive biodiversity loss. Biocultural heritage territories A change in perspective is needed. In 2005, IIED and its partners … biocultural heritage in order to address this dual extinction crisis. Our research with 11 indigenous groups in Peru, Panama, Kenya, India and … research with scientists have enhanced yields despite severe climate change impacts. And landscape-based biocultural products and services, …
Insight, 18 February 2020