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Kenya: Community-based marine area holds some important lessons for policy makers
… land. “We tried for the land but nothing came. We don’t know how loud our voice can be for the government to know we need the land,”  said one … of the Sustainable Markets Group . Find out more about their work. …
Insight, 14 November 2011
MMSD – draft materials
… Documents are grouped together in the links below, or you can search our Publications Library . Please contact us if you can't find what you …
Article, 04 March 2009
Care workers in Guinea put on protective clothing (Photo: EC/ECHO)
Ebola – what must we learn?
… level in terms of governance, connection and communication. IIED's work with slum dweller federations shows the vulnerability of marginal … us a universal set of targets to be agreed next year. They represent our global aspirations for a fairer, more sustainable world. Yet the …
Insight, 30 October 2014
A farmer in Tattaguine, Senegal benefits from an irrigation project. IIED is advocating for the Green Climate Fund to speed up the process of getting finance to local levels, those who need it most (Photo: Ryan Kendrick Smith, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: a message to the Green Climate Fund board
Article, 10 October 2016
Delegates at the international symposium on agroecology (Photo: John Choptiany/FAO)
Agroecology offers FAO a 'new window' on agriculture
… events in Asia and Africa. Learn more To learn more about IIED's work on agroecology read: Agroecology: what it is and what it has to offer and visit our page on Building greater local control and resilience into …
Insight, 02 October 2014
Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal. Photo: Sajal Sthapit
Forest businesses 'fit for life'
Insight, 18 February 2013
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in the Great Hall of the People, uniformed in identical suits, red ties, and side-parts.
China’s leadership transition
… reflected the increasingly vocal demands of the population: “Our people … expect better education, more stable jobs, better income, … of advancing economic, political, cultural, and social progress, work hard to build a beautiful country, and achieve lasting and …
Insight, 27 November 2012
Climate-change media alliance tackles information vacuum in developing nations
… "For most, if not all of us, it was baptism by fire, covering this our first BIG environmental conference. But it was appropriately …
News, 21 January 2008
A line of Christmas trees. Photo: Brett Flanders (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Sustainable development requires an infusion of love
Insight, 20 December 2013
A rally protesting against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) takes place in Wellington, New Zealand (Photo: Neil Ballantyne, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The rise of civil society advocacy on investment treaties in Malaysia and the Philippines
… and how effective can they be? This was the focus of discussions at our recent webinar, with Fauwaz Abdul Aziz, head of research at the … identifying issues covered by an investment treaty that link to their work (e.g. mining, human rights or corporate accountability issues). …
Insight, 26 March 2015