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Angola aims to achieve its mitigation goals through the promotion of renewable energy, stabilisation of agricultural emissions, carbon sequestration from the forestry sector and other activities (Photo: jbdodane, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate finance is vital to secure a future worth having
Insight, 09 December 2015
Peru's Inca capital slams door shut on biopirates
… indigenous people's traditional knowledge and associated genetic resources from biopirates," says Alejandro Argumedo, Director of … their customary laws to develop and implement ways to protect local resources, including registers of biodiversity and protocols for … people and farming communities of their ancestral rights to natural resources." "This law ensures that there is an equal playing field …
News, 14 January 2009
View of Kunming, China, of a lake and houses in the background
Learning from Paris: what would ‘Kunming-compliant’ look like for development cooperation agencies?
Insight, 25 February 2021
Cover for 13566IIED.pdf
Trees on-farm: removing the obstacles to enterprise - A review of current climate-smart tree-based experiences in Malawi
… based on trees at any significant scale – either through lack of resources for implementation or through entrenched views that discourage …
Publication, 01 March 2013
A woman wearing a mask pours chemicals into a bottle.
Addressing gendered and other inequalities will be central to COVID-19 recovery
… and measures to tackle deep-seated social and economic inequalities. Resources: Below is a selection of online resources about gender equality and COVID-19. We will update this list …
Article, 11 September 2020
Many crops today are grown in monocultures like this soybean field (Photo: via Pixabay)
We need to safeguard biodiversity and promote diverse diets
… by markets and other factors such as gender and control over resources, wealth, cultural values and the existing degree of on-farm … improved.  There is also evidence that when women have control over resources such as land and money, it leads to greater allocations of household resources for food. Empowering women is clearly key. In Indonesia, IIED …
Insight, 22 May 2018
Cover for G04146.pdf
Manual on sustainable overseas forest management trade and investment by Chinese enterprises: Mozambique version
… development pathway for investments, local communities and the forest resources of Mozambique. …
Publication, 01 November 2016
A woman using homemade compost in her garden in eastern Burkina Faso
Trade-offs in sustainable intensification
Project, 15 August 2013
Cover for G03843.pdf
Biocultural heritage territories
… the backbone of local economies, and are home to critical genetic resources for food and agriculture. Across the world, years of local …
Publication, 01 November 2014
Cover for 12593IIED.pdf
Strengthening women's voices in the context of agricultural investments: Lessons from Tanzania
Publication, 01 July 2016