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IIED produced an animation to raise awareness of the SDGs and the potential of the new development agenda (Image: IIED/Hands Up)
Global goals for sustainable development
… final text of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Transforming our world , was released on 11 August, marking the completion of a … the power imbalances among marine resource exploiting nations. IIED's work on fisheries has focused on the use of innovative economic … degradation. The SDGs eliminate that artificial divide, but IIED's work on forests and the SDGs suggests that addressing terrestrial …
Insight, 02 September 2015
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Research planning workshop (Cusco, 2005). Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge: Implications of customary laws and practices
… the methodology of Andes for research on customary law and their work to establish the Potato Park as a sui generis mechanism for TK … common research themes. Follow the links below for more about our work on Biocultural heritage. …
Publication, 01 May 2005
Women carrying emergency shelter kits
The UK’s backward step on global development
… take effective global action to confront the key global challenges of our time. It is more important than ever that we seize them. This blog …
Insight, 17 June 2020
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Survival for a Small Planet: The sustainable development agenda
… that governments, business and civil society can each make to improve our prospoects and they set out the agenda for those working to achieve …
Publication, 01 September 2003
Negotiations went long into the night at COP20 in Lima, Peru, but the road to dignity seems no clearer (Photo: Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, via Creative Commons)
Can the road to Paris lead to the road to dignity?
… the road to Paris lead to the road to dignity, and should dignity be our destination anyway? The Independent Research Forum ( IRF2015)  … which no one is left behind, with equity for all and economies that work for people and planet. What will it take to get to this world? We … The road we need to follow involves a far broader transformation in our values. It is going to be a bumpy ride – which is why we must not …
Insight, 15 December 2014
The Forest and Farm Facility Vietnam team displays new forest and farm products and knowledge from work with Forest and Farm Producer Organisation businesses (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Mass mobilisation: boosting businesses and protecting forests
… and natural resource policy platform, and  In Myanmar and Nicaragua, work focused on building bottom-up local community group business … to share everything we have learned. Technical know-how from FFF's work to date is available in more than 50 written products , from policy briefings to practical toolkits.  Our resources on the global scope and scale of FFPOs , how to prioritise …
Insight, 20 March 2018
Picture of students and speakers attending Fair Ideas.
Students on Fair Ideas and the future they want
… Ideas, a group of highly-engaged students discussed the future of our generation, questioned speakers, filmed short video interviews and … exactly a laugh-a-minute, we did draw a series of conclusions from our discussions, which were also reflected in many of the conference … different parameters. This weekend, I learned how some businesses work with indigenous people without causing danger to their way of life, …
Insight, 10 July 2012
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Domestic biogas in a changing China: Can biogas still meet the energy needs of China's rural households?
… and sustainable development of the biogas sector. Find out more about our work on improving people's access to sustainable energy …
Publication, 01 September 2013
An IIED workshop in September 2016 that focused on conceptualising 'better evidence' (Photo: Celie Manuel/IIED)
Generating better evidence for sustainable development research and evaluation
… is itself a dynamic process that improves the main products of our work through enquiry, investigation and research. But this does not deny …
Project, 24 March 2017
Delegates discuss the Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund at the Bangladesh workshop. The fund is part of work to enhance the effectiveness of incentive-based fisheries management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Conservation trust fund proposed to help manage Bangladesh fish stocks
… of the Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund is very timely when our hilsa fishery is under pressure of exploitation due to increase of … for sustainable development, conservation and management of our national fish." In another development on 3-4 June, Dr Syed Arif … the incentive-based scheme for hilsa management. We will continue to work with IIED and other development partners to pursue the ratification …
News, 25 June 2015