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IIED's Krystyna Swiderska discusses the latest research on how indigenous people adapt to climate change at a side event at the 2016 UN climate conference in Marrakech (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
Indigenous people use own knowledge to boost food yields despite climate change, research finds
News, 22 November 2016
Participants at IIED's Innovations for equity in smallholder payments for ecosystem services conference at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh (Photo: Kate Wilson)
Coverage of conference on Innovations for equity in smallholder PES: bridging research and practice
… carbon credits in international voluntary markets Choice experiment research in East Africa and Bangladesh which explores with communities … of conference on Innovations for equity in smallholder PES: bridging research and practice …
News, 18 March 2014
The Sistema Agroflorestal Dendê - or palm oil agroforestry system in Tomé-Açu managed by Cooperativa Agrícola Mista de Tomé-Açu.
Trailblazing in Tomé Açu: inspiring a global agroforestry transition in northern Brazil
Insight, 03 August 2026
Cover for 16047IIED.pdf
Meaningful community engagement in the extractive industries: Stakeholder perspectives and research priorities
… engagement in the extractive industries: Stakeholder perspectives and research priorities …
Publication, 01 February 2016
Cover for G02824.pdf
Child-friendly participatory research tools (PLA 60)
… Tips for trainers: Field-based action research on community-based adaptation to climate change needs to engage … Children form a significant group that is often overlooked by research and practice at community level, in part because of a lack of appropriate action research tools. In this short piece, we describe some tools for …
Publication, 01 December 2009
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Reflections on participatory HIV prevention research with fishing communities, Uganda (PLA 66)
… as a multidisciplinary team, using participatory methods to research HIV/AIDS prevention in fishing villages in Uganda. Several of … methods and ethnographic approaches proved invaluable in conducting research with fishing communities, and would be with other vulnerable or … Reflections on participatory HIV prevention research with fishing communities, Uganda (PLA 66) …
Publication, 01 September 2013
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Towards a Transformative Post-015 Development Agenda - retreat 7
… On 17 May 2015, the Independent Research Forum on a Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (IRF2015) … Independent Research Forum on a Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda …
Publication, 01 May 2015
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Learning in complexity: insights from Fair Water Footprints
… global supply chains fairer. Drawing on two years of implementation, research and engagement, it examines how change is beginning to emerge …
Publication, 31 March 2026
Putting farmers first: Democratising and reshaping agricultural research in West Africa
… Africa direct access to the organisations which directs and funds research into the development of agriculture. We very much hope it will be productive and change the way in which research priorities are decided and implemented so that farmers become directly involved in the governance of agricultural research and development which affects them”. Dr Camilla Toulmin, …
News, 31 January 2012
Rethinking agriculture research to meet people's needs
… consumers to have their say about the kind of food and agricultural research they want in four regions, with individual countries acting as … their imagination to decide how to design a food and agriculture research and policies that are accountable to wider society. There is a … involve food providers and consumers in defining upstream strategic research agendas for food and agriculture," says Pimbert. "Publicly …
News, 14 April 2008