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Equipped and productive: better financing for community businesses in Tanzania
… most community businesses use savings as their go-to for finance. In our sample, women were more likely to borrow than men but were …
Insight, 26 November 2020
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Tackling climate change in fragile states and protracted crisis situations
… and disasters unless majors reforms are made in the way that they work. This online event asked what needs to change and what role can … poses for vulnerable people in fragile states and protracted crises. Our speakers debated how humanitarian agencies – both international and …
Event, 18 October 2021
This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
2014: the International Year of Family Farming
… demand for sustainably produced food is increasing worldwide.  IIED's work on family farming IIED's work on family and smallholder farming … above, and focuses in particular on poor farmers in the South. From our work on building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems to our projects that support locally-controlled forest enterprises, we …
Article, 22 April 2014
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Introduction to the CBA14 Dragon’s Den
… to develop their skills on pitching to donors and investors. Our trainers Jan Willem den Besten and Romie Goedicke, of IUCN National … , guided attendees through the session with examples from their work with business canvases from around the globe.The event featured the …
Event, 02 September 2020
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Is SDG evaluation just business as usual?
… and equitable world simply cannot be achieved by 2030 if we stick to our conventional ways of working. If we do so, we could remain locked … more sustainable world. The SDGs offer a great opportunity to rethink our practice to help it to become more relevant to the development … but it doesn’t fully account for the systemic interconnectedness of our world. Also, such a complex framework can only be addressed at the …
Insight, 21 April 2020
Maria Lourdes Alvarez is a warden monitoring fishing activity at Decalve Marine Sanctuary, a Marine Protected Area in the Calamianes Islands in the Philippines (Photo: Asuncion Sia/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Gender and biodiversity conservation – progress and future directions
… internal network of IIED Gender Equality Champions  has been leading our gender ambition, helping staff to think about how we can become gender transformative in our work. We see gender transformative efforts as those that go beyond …
Insight, 29 November 2018
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Biocultural Adaptation in Mountain Communities: Third INMIP International Learning Exchange, Stone Village, China
… 18-23 May 2016. This report presents the results. Find out more about our work on biocultural heritage at the website linked below. …
Publication, 01 October 2016
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A brief history of biodiversity at IIED
… – a hallmark of IIED’s research approach. Biodiversity: a new area of work Biodiversity was formally established as a new thematic area of … profits from tourism help to benefit the economically poor. Much of our early work on wildlife tourism was published in the IIED Wildlife … biodiversity conservation and local people’s livelihoods, and much of our earlier work was published in the Evaluating Eden and the …
Article, 16 August 2013
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Sustainable Development Goals: a forest module for a transformative agenda
… landscapes and livelihoods. With the negotiation phase nearing, our assessment of the UN Open Working Group's zero draft finds a strong … potentially serious trade-offs and missing issues. Application of our modular approach can help negotiators seek coherent outcomes across …
Publication, 01 July 2014
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The Green Climate Fund: time to shift focus to locally led adaptation
… the process. COVID-19: an opportunity to rethink COVID-19 has changed our world and is forcing funding mechanisms and development programmes … self-determined and well-integrated climate finance systems that work for their long-term low-carbon climate-resilient development … against how international climate finance is being delivered. Our recent briefing paper  includes recommendations on how the GCF and …
Insight, 17 August 2020