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Landscape approaches for mountain community sustainable development in a time of climate change: Policy Consultation and South-South Exchange Workshop and INMIP Mountain Community Exchange Walking Workshop
… that took place across both events. To find out more about our work on biocultural heritage, please follow the links below. …
Publication, 01 July 2016
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The End of Desertification? Disputing environmental change in the drylands
… it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts our understanding of social-environmental systems and their resiliency, … justification for international attempts to combat desertification. Our exploration of these issues begins in the Sahel of West Africa, … concept in parts of Asia exhibit many of the shortcomings of earlier work done in Africa. It took scientists more than three decades to …
Publication, 01 June 2016
Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)
Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management
… experience of combining objectives and instruments is growing, as is our understanding of synergies and trade-offs, and what is necessary to upscale from local project to national programme. Our project aims to harness this experience, gathering inputs from the … programmes in eight countries, and multi-stakeholder dialogues. Our ultimate aim is to inform the design of practical solutions for …
Project, 26 April 2016
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IIED Annual Report 2009/10: Doorway to a green economy
… the host institute for a new cross-sectoral Green Economy Coalition. Our 2009/10 annual report focuses our work through the lens of the green economy movement, bringing …
Publication, 01 October 2010
Men in Cote d'Ivoire listen to a radio.
Three things that stop development organisations being agents of change
… drive consumer demand. We can learn from business here and reorient our organisations to listen for answers, take risks, be flexible, make quick decisions and change course. Our incentive structures, our need for consensus, and demands for … agreed indicators. How often do development organisations like ours work out the detail of the change we need and then decide the …
Insight, 23 November 2012
Employees work deep within a tunnel at the Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village in Geita District, Tanzania in March 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
Laying the foundations for a dialogue series on artisanal and small-scale mining
… and co-implementation of workable solutions. We want to build on this work and, within the gold sector, bring ASM, large-scale mining and … points: to agree roles and responsibilities through dialogue, improve our knowledge of the sector and, most importantly, amplify the ASM … who depend on gold mining there, and their stories can be seen in our film: ' Gold mining: the search for common ground '. Before the end …
Project, 24 June 2015
Rich countries on track to give little more than half of climate adaptation finance promised at COP26
… vital.  “Pledges made so far show rich countries are falling short. Our analysis demonstrates what it would take to show greater ambition … finance is being spent on adaptation and who the money is going to. Work needs to be done to improve transparency and consistency of the …
News, 08 June 2022
The growing economic centre of Merti town on the Ewaso Ng’iro river, arid lands of Kenya (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu)
Drylands: volatile, vibrant and under-valued?
… benefits from drylands' variable and unpredictable resources. Our aim was to show the economic valuation of the contributions that … methodology for the TEV of pastoralism. As well as integrating our finding into training courses on pastoralism , we produced a practical tool for those interested in carrying out work on the TEV of pastoralism.  Research outputs  Between 2013 and …
Project, 14 July 2016
COP21 president Laurent Fabius (second right) and UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana Figueres (second left) celebrate the Paris Agreement (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A historic agreement in Paris
Insight, 14 December 2015
A buffet of Ugandan food
Science with citizens, or science for citizens?
… Department at Indonesia’s Syiah Kuala University outlined plans to work with citizens to gather water samples to identify where mercury is … I gave a presentation on the work that we are doing with Hivos  and our partner, the  Kabarole Research and Resource Centre (KRC) , on food … turns people from subjects into stakeholders.  But, as we pointed in our recent report on citizen-generated evidence , just because people …
Insight, 23 July 2019