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A farmer’s market, Fort Portal, Uganda
Announcing our new strategy: Make Change Happen
… sure the women and men whose livelihoods depend on the precious resources of the natural world – on land and in the ocean – are heard, …
Insight, 08 April 2019
Screengrab of the homepage of the People Not Poaching website
New “People not poaching” platform supports communities as the first line of defence against IWT
News, 11 October 2018
Cover for 9339IIED.pdf
Biodiversity Planning: Why and how should local opinions matter?
Publication, 01 January 2004
Thousands of workers assemble and test fiber optic systems in a Chinese factory (Photo: Steve Jurvetson, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Governments in developing countries need to act now to avoid technology's threat to jobs
… sustainable development strategies on the inherent value of these resources. Costa Rica, for example, has done this through its …
News, 07 August 2017
Cover for 14567IIED.pdf
Association ANDES: Conserving indigenous biocultural heritage
… an indigenous NGO that seeks to defend indigenous rights to genetic resources, traditional knowledge and landscape character in Peru. It was …
Publication, 01 August 2008
Cover for 14569IIED.pdf
IIED-América Latina: Neighbourhood credit funds in Buenos Aires, Argentina
… conclude that credit fund initiatives based on modest financial resources have the potential not only to catalyze housing improvements …
Publication, 01 August 2008
A street vendor sells produce in Surabaya, Indonesia (Photo: Schristia, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Showcasing innovations in policy approaches to informality
Article, 21 July 2015
The logo of PAGE and information about the conference on 27-28 March 2017
IIED at ministerial green economy conference
… starts at home? - Finance, fiscal policy and leveraging domestic resources Date:  Monday, 27 March, 2017   IIED chief economist Paul … this session, which looked at how to use fiscal policies to mobilise resources to finance the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. Steele's …
Event, 27 March 2017
Families living within the 'No Dwelling Zone' in Guiuan in the Philippines one year after super Typhoon Haiyan (Photo: Victoria Maynard)
Urban planning after crisis: lessons from Southeast Asia
… But local governments are all too often constrained by limited resources and capacity. There is also little guidance for urban planners …
Insight, 10 November 2016
Traffic jam in China. Photo: Simon Lim
Green Growth, and how we get there
… tax . We must help people recognise we live in a world of finite resources. After millennia of apparently open frontiers, we need to … market. For example, taking taxes off labour and putting them on resources would create jobs. Long term decision-making needs to be built …
Insight, 01 March 2013