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Disasters, such as this flooding in Old Bagamoyo Road, Mikocheni, Dar es Salaam, were the subject of discussion in Sendai (Photo: Matthew Wood-Hill, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Keep it simple: helping local governments reduce the risk from the next disaster
… and actions needed to reduce disaster impacts? How can limited resources be best used to tackle the risks of disasters? So it was …
Insight, 25 March 2015
Staying south – trade, aid, and the recession
Insight, 30 March 2010
Indigenous communities sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, near Cusco, Peru. Credit: Asociacion ANDES
Traditional innovation in farming is under threat
… Yet indigenous farming practices already conserve natural resources (water, soil, crop diversity) and use natural processes …
Insight, 02 October 2013
COP24 will take place in Katowice's landmark congress centre and exhibition hall (Photo: Umkatowice, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
IIED and partner events at COP24
Event, 02 December 2018
A CCAFS and CIAT participatory photography project in Chiquimula, Guatemala. A framework on how to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches is now available. (Photo: Gian Betancourt/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Paper outlines framework to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches
… systems can join the CCSL Sandbox , where the CCSL toolkit and other resources are available on a wiki page and peer support is given through …
Insight, 13 February 2015
A group of people standing outside
Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
Article, 14 June 2021
The Swiss ski resort of Davos, which hosts the World Economic Forum (Photo: swiss-image.ch/Michael Buholzer, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The glass is half full: in 2015 we need to demand that our leaders deliver
Insight, 21 January 2015
Children at an informal school in the Kibera area of Nairobi. Providing free education is one way to reduce urban poverty (Photo: Christy Gillmore, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why are the main means by which urban dwellers avoid hunger ignored?
… hunger – with little consideration of who actually gets the land and resources to engage in urban agriculture, and who benefits from the food …
Insight, 05 October 2011
Cover for 8101IIED.pdf
Distributional effects of environmental tax reform, The
Publication, 01 January 1998
Customers at a milk bar in Ndumbuini in Kabete, Nairobi. Research in Kenya has found that milk sold in this way had similar bacterial levels to those sold in formal markets (Photo: ILRI/Paul Karaimu)
What do street food, charcoal, gold, mobile phones and milk have in common?
Insight, 17 December 2014