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IIED's best of 2019: blogs
… or cities that are welcoming to all types of road users? 9 Time to team up with nature to adapt to climate change September:   Xiaoting Hou …
Article, 27 December 2019
Forest landscape in northern Costa Rica. Natural capital accounting has shown the value of Costa Rica's forests and forest products (Photo: keltikee, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Natural capital accounting: six tips for engaging policymakers
… the value of the services provided by an ecosystem, such as a forest or river basin, and the reciprocal costs to that ecosystem, … each other what you know.  The communication specialist in a country team needs a good induction to the approach: what is natural capital … how accounts data informed a national statement about the cost of forest fires.   You can't avoid communication.   It’s important to start …
Insight, 01 August 2016
Screengrab of a map of indigenous peoples’ territories in the Peruvian Amazon (Image: IBC Peru)
Creating a global 'land rights family': from knowledge to action
… finding that in the Amazon, "[community land] titling reduces [forest] clearing by more than three-quarters and forest disturbance by roughly two-thirds in a two-year window spanning … Brendan Schwartz  ([email protected]) is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group . The five …
Insight, 14 March 2018
Community representatives gather together to record their knowledge about dryland resources as part of a participatory mapping process in Isiolo County, Kenya. (Photo: James Pattison/IIED)
Strengthening civil society to support natural resource management
Insight, 29 July 2015
Chinese timber business in Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
China-Africa trade and investment: benefiting Africa's rural informal economy?
… in the informal economy. Xiaoxue Weng ( [email protected] ) is a researcher in IIED's China team in the Natural Resources Group . Resources: Read this backgrounder … for more information, and watch out for updates on  our China team page . …
Insight, 31 March 2015
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
Article, 15 June 2020
IIED director Camilla Toulmin enjoys the 12th D&C Days event at COP20 in Lima, Peru (Photo; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change
… and build livelihoods that are more resilient to climate risk. A team effort Whenever I go to the UN or other big events – such as D&C … events. This year we had 20 events in Lima , from REDD+, equity and forest governance, to indigenous peoples' knowledge in building … Goals (SDGs). I joined Achala Abeysinghe , IIED's principal researcher in the climate change group, and her team for breakfast with …
Insight, 11 December 2014
View of Harpan village of Panchase – the upstream of Phewa Lake (Photo: Amit Poudyal/IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Nepal
… in partnership with the Government of Nepal in the Panchase Protected Forest area of the Western Development Region of Nepal. The area is … Informing policy IUCN Nepal is working with the Ministry of Forest and Environment (MoFE) to promote the inclusion of findings on … the impact of diversifying livelihoods by promoting ecotourism.  The team shared learning with 11 other staff of NGOs from Nepal and India at …
Project, 26 June 2018
Camilla Toulmin has led IIED since 2004
Camilla Toulmin to step down in 2015
Insight, 29 October 2014
A stray ape rescued by Limbe Wildlife Centre in South West Cameroon (Photo: Stanley Dinsi)
TV documentary highlights conservation and poverty links in Cameroon
Article, 13 April 2016