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Delegates at the 20th Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) meeting integrate poverty and environmental issues into the global agenda in Edinburgh in late May (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Putting ourselves out of business – forward planning for the PEP
… told the meeting, there's a challenging job to be done before we plan our own funeral. Set up at the 2002 Johannesburg Summit (Rio+10), the … and climate, their implementation will require fundamental changes to our approach to development at all levels to achieve zero poverty and … than a poverty trap. We need to understand local circumstances and work with local organisations, and find the delicate balance that …
Insight, 29 June 2015
People walking down a street with mountains in the background
Foreign investment, knowledge and international arbitration: inside a research trip
… to join an IIED research team investigating investor-state disputes. Our visit focused on the Páramo de Santurbán, a wetland ecosystem that … cities, as well as the local community.  The experts We started our research in Bogotá. Our first stop was the Constitutional Court of … ecosystem of the Páramo de Santurbán  Watch a video focusing on this work that appeared in IIED's 2020 annual review  …
Insight, 22 June 2020
Group photo Guinea
Global Water Initiative: Guinea
… for the dam, as well as reducing local opposition and conflict. Our work on other large dams being developed in the region, including … sharing is in relation to the production and sale of hydropower. Our research has looked at how to implement this in practice in Guinea, …
Project, 16 February 2018
A local market in Kampala, Uganda. One of the winning proposals will study refugees and markets in urban Uganda (Photo: Hendrik Terbeck, Creative Commons via Flickr)
New research funded to study local markets in the context of urban crises
… Africa, Asia and the Middle East have received funding for work to improve our understanding of the effects of urban humanitarian crises on the … sector can most effectively operate in urban contexts and work with urban actors.  IIED is working with the  International Rescue …
News, 28 September 2016
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Fair and sustainable food systems: from vicious cycles to virtuous circles
… and a limitless capacity to absorb waste and pollution at the other. Our continued reliance on these industrial systems is pushing the world … shortages, climate chaos, famine and disaster. How can we transform our production models for food, energy and water to deliver lower … across the world show that circular production systems can and do work for sustainability and equity. But these remain largely isolated …
Publication, 01 June 2012
Group discussions with women in Isiolo County, Kenya helped to generate specific evidence about why they and other marginalised groups are more vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Susannah Fisher, IIED)
Decision making in an uncertain climate
Insight, 23 January 2017
Miners work deep within a tunnel at Nsangano gold mine in the Geita District (Photo: copyright Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
Gold for life
… pit where he works. "I fear very much that I will get hurt in my work," he says, "and be unable to take care of my family." But Levocatus … just two of thousands whose livelihoods depend on Geita's gold. "In our area there is no other business than gold," explains village elder …
Insight, 24 April 2015
Pakistan's Sarhad Rural Support programme deals with constant uncertainty and disruptive events. Here goods are delivered to flood victims in Chitral (Photo: Gul Hamaad Farooqui, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What can Southern NGOs teach us about disruptive change?
… in between – will surely help to define the shape of development work moving forward. This is why IIED has been looking at how … part of the picture. We've put their perspectives at the heart of our investigation, with a series of 23 interviews with Southern NGO … the strategies and programmes of both donors and international NGOs.  Our reality is a reality of 'consistently trying to overcome …
Insight, 26 January 2016
Kenya: Farmers visit a crop trial site to select the best sorghum varieties for climate resilience. Most climate change adaptation is done day-to-day by farmers, pastoralists, fishers and the urban poor. (Photo: S. Kilungo, CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs must carry us beyond Paris to 2030
… Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) addresses our greatest global challenge. Without tackling climate change … support on policy and action focusing on 'new agenda goals' where our knowledge and partner networks are strong. See, for example,  Essam … within countries and this will continue to be a theme of our work. Most adaptation to climate change is done by farmers, …
Insight, 10 September 2015
A last-minute speaker change resulted in IIED participating in an all-male panel (or 'manel') at the UN climate summit (Photo: Anne Schulthess)
Missing voices: let's hear women's experience of climate change
… spectrum of grassroots, governments and research who are doing great work in their own areas. But these stories of progress were overshadowed … From having to scramble at the last minute to add more women to our own side event panel , to (rightly) being called out for one of our researchers speaking on another all-male panel  – it is clear to me …
Insight, 06 December 2017