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We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
… tension between making cities resilient while ensuring that they use resources efficiently . With their concentrations of people, … cities are highly vulnerable. They also use a huge amount of resources, consuming up to 70-75 per cent of the world's natural resources. A report by IIED and UN Environment, ' Resilience and …
Article, 22 December 2017
Aerial view of housing with metal roofs, palm trees and a river
Environment & Urbanization Better Cities Day
Event, 16 March 2023
Tanzania: participatory training events for small-scale farmers can introduce the concept of climate change and help farmers identify which crops could work well in their area (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS)
From knowledge to action – how top down training is driving bottom-up resilience in Tanzania
Insight, 09 March 2015
Man speaking in front of a wall that reads "UN Climate Change Conference UK 2020"
UK aid cuts threaten climate leadership role of COP26 president
Insight, 30 March 2021
Cover for G03892.pdf
Secure and equitable land rights in the Post–2015 Agenda – A key issue in the future we want
… men in the world. As organizations working on food security, natural resources management and poverty eradication, we strongly encourage governments to keep the profile of land and natural resources high in the document to be endorsed in September 2015. Secure …
Publication, 01 January 2015
A group of women stand around a table and write on a white piece of paper.
Advancing gender equity through women producers’ dialogue series
… rural communities overcome poverty and facilitate their access to resources, assets, markets and services. Women-only producer …
Article, 11 July 2023
A barren landscape of chopped-down trees under a brilliant blue sky
Does the global biodiversity framework offer a plan B for protected areas?
Insight, 03 September 2021
GWI influence - access and rights to irrigated land - planting rice - Selingue dam - Mali
Global Water Initiative: Mali
… transferring to regional authorities the responsibility and resources for managing rural and urban water services, several … Sourou sub-basin. It showed that the area held significant natural resources, including: a reservoir on the Burkina Faso side, containing … stretch of timber reserves and bourgou pastures). Given its wealth of resources, the sub-basin – and especially the Sourou valley – was an …
Project, 16 February 2018
A woman with a basket on her back picks tea leaves from a huge field surrounding her
Stockholm+50 must build a legacy of support for locally-led action for people, nature and climate
Insight, 27 May 2022
A series of grey abandoned and crumbling stone houses in an unwelcoming landscape
New website for research into refugee wellbeing and livelihoods
… be regularly updated to feature a wide range of the most up-to-date resources , including publications, presentations, data visualisations, …
News, 14 June 2021