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Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
… of Europe. It demonstrated the potential benefits of transforming our industrialised linear systems into locally-controlled circular … to the impacts of climate change in fragile agro-ecosystems. In Peru, work was carried out to link community conserved areas, including the …
Project, 14 August 2013
Food security in 2050: how can we make it fairer and more sustainable?
… Two years’ work culminated in the launch last week of the UK government’s Foresight … models of future food prices to regional studies of climate impacts. Our task as the lead expert group has been to sift through this mass of … the needs of the poor, or ignore them. Politics doesn’t usually work in favour of poor people, but some leaders have shown that it can. …
Insight, 03 February 2011
A community in Bangladesh maps out their local resources and plans for an emergency.
Lessons from Bangladesh for a post-Sandy New York
… around the world, Bangladesh being an example, can be shared to our mutual benefit. In the case of climate change vulnerability, impacts … program. ARCAB is a long-term action research program that will work at sites across Bangladesh with the goal of researching knowledge … point to incorporate the discussion of climate change into all of our actions. SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Dr Saleemul Huq is a Senior Fellow at …
News, 22 January 2013
Left: Women and schoolgirls discuss the benefits of harvesting rainwater (Credit: ISET). Right: A girl collects water from the rainwater storage tank (Credit: Fawad Khan)
Climate adaptation and good development: two sides of the same coin
Insight, 18 March 2014
The Tanah Abang district of the Indonesian capital Jakarta has chronic traffic problems. Attempts to clear informal settlements and street vendors are frequently met with protests (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ten urban planning principles every humanitarian should know
… areas. This trend is changing the nature of humanitarian crises and our responses to them, and the international community needs to be … humanitarians must acknowledge political influences and appropriately work with political partners in order to achieve feasible solutions with …
Insight, 10 November 2015
The Multidimensional Poverty Index only has one indicator to assess housing quality – whether floors are made of dirt, sand or dung. So these houses in Manila would not be classified as sub-standard (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
The Multidimensional Poverty Index: Another underestimate of urban poverty
… it has no more than one item on the list. This measure of wealth may work for rural populations but it ignores the range of extra costs urban … cheaper. But this also means time-consuming and expensive journeys to work or to access schools and other services.  It is also likely that, … Policymakers and researchers repeatedly underestimate urban poverty. Our efforts to eradicate poverty are little served by another …
Insight, 18 June 2014
Fadzilah Majid-Cooke
Q&A with Fadzilah Majid-Cooke: land rights and agricultural investments in Southeast Asia
… and how, through this, we can respect and protect those producing our food? FM: Yes - similarities are also seen across the region in the … in relation to the political space which determines the nature of the work of civil society. Limited political space in some countries means … if willing governments could also look into and support the work of civil society that is trying to establish how principles such as …
Article, 18 March 2013
Hippos bask in the sun in Botswana.
Botswana: Biodiversity and dragons come together
… many biodiversity projects that IIED is involved in. The majority of our work in this area focuses on the linkages between biodiversity and …
Insight, 22 May 2013
Images of indigenous biocultural heritage territories are profiled in a new photofilm (Photo: IIED)
New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories
… to Alejandro Argumedo from ANDES for providing the vision to guide our work on biocultural heritage territories. More details: Project …
News, 11 November 2014
A family in Tarialan, Uvs Province, Mongolia, uses a solar panel to generate power for their ger, a traditional Mongolian tent (Photo: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Why social inclusion matters for green growth
… and inclusive green growth to the forefront of economic debate. Our joint report on pro-poor, inclusive green growth makes a simple … framework for sustainable development. But ultimately they will not work unless national politics backs them up, and we need leaders to …
Insight, 11 August 2016