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Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal (Photo: Sajal Sthapit)
Risky business: assessing potential impacts of REDD+ in Nepal
… The recently released IPCC report only serves to remind us that our duty to humankind demands a greater sense of urgency. But any policy … inputs to understand, but not solely determine, whether REDD+ will work. It will also help plan for the social and environmental impacts of …
Insight, 09 April 2014
Turn REDD on its head
… communities about their forests and then continued to debate and plan our future work in the small town of Namaacha. We agreed that if you set out to … opinion leaders in ten countries across Africa and Asia. These teams work to establish the truth about forest problems and then try to take …
Insight, 14 December 2010
COP17 in Durban: Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Christiana Figueres and the President of COP17, South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (Photo: Michael Mazengarb, Creative Commons via Flickr)
United Nations climate change negotiations: IIED at COP17
Event, 20 December 2011
Annual report 2009/10
… were informed by IIED research. Beyond ‘land grabs’:  to follow up our widely read 2009 report on ‘land grabs’, IIED was exploring … how international funding and frameworks could better support their work. Going mainstream:  strategic environmental assessment – key to …
Page, 21 October 2010
PLA 36: General Issue
… browse and download issues or individual articles October 1999 This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons … Jonathan Davies and William Cavendish Snapshots from 'Deepening our understanding and practice: a conference on participatory …
Article, 30 September 1999
Fishermen along the Meghna Rover (Photo: Essam Mohammed/IIED)
Want to know how to save a fish species? Ask a fisher
… Bengali to his subordinates, something he continued to do throughout our conversation.  I briefly told Ali about our research project, then I asked him an intentionally open  question: …
Insight, 08 June 2014
Cover for G01465.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 9 Women's PRA in Hindupur
… all the topics adequately. Much South India for which only women more work needs to be done in this area. participants were invited to attend. … women is different because it has been difficult to get women from our previous experiences when men were participants from NGOs in …
Publication, 01 January 1993
Cover for 6152IIED.pdf
Mad Cows and Bad Berries
… goals such as increasing production or improving health, may work through feedback loops across economic, ecological and disease … emerging as long as simple, one-perspective changes are made within our increasingly complex agri-food systems. ~Disease problems in urban …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Elder woman kneels on the ground behind weeds.
Indigenous Peoples and forest communities are central to tackling the climate crisis – but they need finance
Insight, 05 November 2021
Gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
Uganda: Can a gorilla park deliver more benefits to local people?
… in a workshop in Kampala this September. We’ll also share results in our next blog. This is the first major project of the Uganda Poverty and … alleviate the poverty of households living around the park. The work will be led by ACODE.  It is hoped that these more targeted …
Insight, 26 July 2013