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Earth from space
Fifty years on, 'Only One Earth' rings true
… Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) commenced its work. At that time, the idea of combining the environment and … new and needed to be fought for. Over the years, research including our own added to the evidence base for sustainable development. Today, … has played an important role in forging that consensus. Alongside our diverse partners , we have engaged actively at all the key points on …
Insight, 08 June 2021
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
… Read our 10 most read blogs of 2021 Read a blog about our top 10 videos of 2021 The year began with the launch of our new … also highlighting key remaining ‘knowledge gaps’.  More about this work:   Nature for Development: improving evidence and dialogue on …
Article, 17 December 2021
Landscape of an island with houses and vegetation surrounded by the sea.
A glimmer of hope ahead of COP26 – financing for adaptation
Insight, 06 October 2021
Drylands landscape with cattle in the background
CBA15: Can adaptation be a superhero in the 'super year' for climate and nature?
Insight, 17 February 2021
A woman holds bank notes
Financial summary 2019
… Our statement of financial activities demonstrates a stable performance … of employees  increased by 11 to 136, reflecting an expansion in our research activity (our core function staffing remained static). … works with as a normal part of its research activities. Where such work involves payment, they enter into arm’s length contracts and any …
Page, 25 October 2019
Man in a mangrove forest
Striving for better: following LDC leadership in addressing the climate crisis
Insight, 26 January 2021
People eating at the market
Citizen-led research serves up answers on what Bolivian food vendors want
… collectors, as we often see in crowd-sourcing experiments, we tried our hand at something more radical: involving people from the beginning … topic of research? And conduct it themselves, in their own places of work?  Agreeing the topic was challenging. It took a long time to … managing their households. Persuading them to take notice of us and our research proposal was a challenge. But through exchanging recipes, …
Insight, 07 May 2020
Women spreading fish on a drying rack
Fish Night 7: Gender equality in the seafood value chain
… the world. Close to half of the 40 million people worldwide who work in small-scale fisheries are women. Women dominate the post-harvest … industry is characterised by pervasive gender inequalities and the work of women is still mostly ignored, invisible, unrecognised and … and research roles, in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Our speakers shared their insights and experience of the roles and …
Event, 08 March 2021
sandbags holding back river water
CBA14: Same great conference, entirely new environment
… development.  Taking the conference online allows us to reinforce our commitment to capacity building and community networking. The … was particularly revealing for us both as funders and practitioners. Our discussions revealed that some new digital tools intended to support … communication tools – particularly in the private sector – was clear: work with communities to identify how their knowledge can be more …
Insight, 07 July 2020
A group of people holding a tree seedling
Harnessing the power of bees to benefit forest and people
… for local communities to take up the challenge to help replenish our degraded forests. Working with relevant government agencies, … Earlier this year, IIED launched a monthly blog series on our  Facebook page  where we invite our followers – focusing … (Apis mellifera scutellata).  Protecting the indigenous trees:  bees work harder and produce more honey when around highly diverse flora. …
Insight, 26 March 2020