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Indigenous food systems, biocultural heritage and the SDGs: challenges, interdisciplinary research gaps and empowering methodologies
… biocultural heritage and the SDGs: challenges, interdisciplinary research gaps and empowering methodologies …
Publication, 26 March 2021
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Investment Contracts and International Law: Charting a Research Agenda
… Investment Contracts and International Law: Charting a Research Agenda …
Publication, 01 July 2020
A builder labours in the sun in India. Outdoor workers lose weeks of work every year due to extreme heat
Extreme heat costing Indian workers billions in lost wages
News, 20 July 2026
A traditional farmer in the Eastern Himalaya where indigenous communities use seed networks to protect their knowledge. Research should not publish details of traditional knowledge that could be used commercially without equitable benefit-sharing (Photo: Ruchi Pant/Ecoserve)
Striving for the highest standards in research ethics
… using the principles of respect, beneficence and justice to guide our research. Our staff are committed to promoting sustainable development, … reasons why IIED has spent the last year developing a new policy on research ethics (PDF)  (this was updated in November 2022), and setting up a formal research ethics committee.  We are now ready to put these initiatives …
Insight, 14 June 2017
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Supporting small-scale farmer agency in commercial agriculture: Collective learning on the role of socio-legal empowerment from an international action-research project
… Producers in Commercial Agriculture (EPIC) project – an action-research initiative that combined international evidence gathering and … on the role of socio-legal empowerment from an international action-research project …
Publication, 31 August 2022
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Citizen-led research serves up answers on what Bolivian food vendors want
… used a citizen science approach that involved non-scientists in the research process. But rather than the non-scientists being simply data … involving people from the beginning and letting them decide the research objectives and questions. We wanted the vendors to drive the research, making them stakeholders and owners of the project, not …
Insight, 07 May 2020
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Knowledge-based participatory action research
… Evidence in Action’ toolkit. Knowledge-based participatory action research seeks to maximise the use of local and traditional knowledge … systems, while also enabling communities to lead conventional research to generate qualitative and quantitative knowledge that is … Knowledge-based participatory action research …
Publication, 01 March 2017
Thousands of fish are caught in a net off the side of a large trawler ship.
IIED at the World Trade Organisation Public Forum 2026
Event, 15 September 2026
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Democratising Food and Agricultural Research Project Launch in Mali (Press Clippings)
… of citizens deliberations on the future of fodd and agricultural research. The workshop was followed by a highly visible media event in … Democratising Food and Agricultural Research Project Launch in Mali (Press Clippings) …
Publication, 01 December 2008
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Independent Research Forum (IRF): supporting change for a sustainable future
… of what sustainable development entailed. The Independent Research Forum on a post-2015 sustainable development agenda (IRF) was … that understanding. Drawing on the knowledge and experience of 10 research institutes and organisations working on sustainability across … for Southern Africa  (OSISA) Overseas Development Institute  (ODI) Research Centre for Sustainable Development  (RCSD)  Stockholm …
Project, 14 December 2018