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The role of savings and savings organisations, how they can transform conventional finance into a catalyst for empowerment and development
… money becomes a unifying force enabling people to enhance the resources that are immediately available to them and develop their …
Publication, 01 February 2005
Boji Drug Store: financed by the European Union through the Community Development Trust Fund (Photo: John Nyangena)
Funding local adaptation in Kenya: nationally vs. locally managed funds
Insight, 04 December 2016
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Fishing rights on the floodplains of Gwendégué, Winye country, central western Burkina Faso
… village has its own economic model that defines how local natural resources are to be exploited and how the various types of management …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Policy-makers discussing, reflecting, learning and building skills and capacities for climate adaptation at village-level. All key social learning activities. (Photo: E. van de Grift)
Social learning event features case studies from around the world
Insight, 04 August 2014
Thousands of scientists attended the March for Science in Washington D.C. to protest against political attacks on climate science and evidence-based research. Similar protests were held in over 600 cities around the world (Photo: Adam Fagen, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Marching into May talks: LDCs lead the way on climate change
Insight, 04 May 2017
The CBD COP13 logo. IIED and partners will be at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December
IIED at the biodiversity COP in Cancun
… on biotechnology safety and the Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources . These international agreements are important to IIED's work on natural resources , and in particular to work with partners on conservation, …
Event, 04 December 2016
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Protecting Farmers’ Rights with Indigenous Biocultural Heritage Territories: The Experience of the Potato Park
… Peru. It calls on the FAO's International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and other international fora - …
Publication, 01 January 2008
'Land grabbing' in the shadow of the law in Africa
… often impossible in practice, as it requires financial and technical resources that are not available to rural people. Also, before accessing …
Insight, 13 October 2011
Fishermen offloading their morning catch from a fishing boat in Kalindi, West Bengal (Photo: Souvik Das Gupta, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Creating waves for small-scale fisheries
… more. The global call to conserve our oceans, seas and marine resources in the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG 14 ) was, for many, …
Insight, 17 November 2016
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaking the World Economic Forum in 2017 (Photo: Jakob Polacsek/World Economic Forum, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: getting indigenous women's voices heard on the SDGs
Article, 15 May 2018