Search results

3283 results
Artisanal and small-scale mining stakeholders in Tanzania explore solutions to key challenges (Photo: Steve Aanu/IIED)
Using dialogue to extract sustainable solutions for artisanal and small-scale mining
… of the roadmap, needs government mandate and sufficient resources to build institutional capacity. IIED has a key role in … first two years. The Ghanaian LLG, albeit constrained by financial resources, enthusiastically worked on designing its roadmap while …
Insight, 26 February 2018
A gate blocks access to the customary lands of the Long Teran Kanan people in Sarawack. Malaysia has seen a huge expansion of oil palm plantations backed by international investors. The customary rights of local people are often ignored (Photo: Wakx, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Investment treaties, land rights and a shrinking planet
… its reach, growing global consumption is placing the world's natural resources under unprecedented pressure. Petroleum and minerals are … among multiple policy goals and determine competing claims to resources. This political dimension calls for more effective approaches … As developments in law and society reconfigure control over natural resources, there is a need to harness research and advocacy to enable …
Insight, 08 July 2015
View of a building on a street corner, with people crossing the road in the foreground
Coming through the pandemic the right way up
Insight, 01 May 2020
A woman sits in the courtyard of a building, washing clothes in a small bowl.
Risks to health in informal settlements
… priorities and making decisions , helping to ensure that limited resources are well targeted and can address longstanding inequalities. …
Article, 09 June 2022
Cover for 17229IIED.pdf
Climate change financing in Nepal
… disbursement. Establishing a climate change fund to pool and disburse resources and building local capacity would also help the ~government …
Publication, 01 April 2014
Cover for G03391.pdf
Editorial: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent (PLA 65)
… – in which communities set out their customary rights to natural resources and land, as recognised in customary, national and … decide whether or not to allow projects affecting their land or resources to go ahead, and on what terms. The issue reviews the … mechanisms for access and benefit-sharing (ABS) for genetic resources and traditional knowledge; confronting threats from mining and …
Publication, 01 June 2012
A field team designing a REDD strategy in Mozambique talk to farmer Nimale Maribu Saidi as part of their research (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
What happened when IIED focused on research quality?
… research seriously – and has invested time, effort and financial resources in reflecting on the standards of research and in supporting … institutions aiming at similar goals (particularly with the World Resources Institute , Overseas Development Institute and the … and extending. There is still a need to make additional research resources available. With the potential for a growing cohort of …
Insight, 13 March 2014
Cover for G03914.pdf
Smallholders and payments for ecosystem services
… that rewards landholders and communities for managing their natural resources more sustainably - such as through carbon sequestration, …
Publication, 01 March 2015
People walking on agricultural land
Envisioning a better future for The Gambia
Insight, 19 July 2021
Nature landscape of a spring with ducks, and mountains in the background
Supporting a nature positive, equitable global biodiversity framework
… of achieving 'nature positive' goals and to develop tools and resources to strengthen the emerging GBF so that it is equitable as well …
Project, 04 May 2021