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Living in close proximity to wildlife is not a neutral-impact relationship (Photo: Creative Commons, via Pixaby)
Wild life, wild lives: enough talking already
… attacks can result in losses equivalent to more than 10 per cent of annual household income . Then imagine not being able to do anything … voices in global conservation debates. Depressingly, however, the report highlights that none of these lessons are new. They have been … will be more talking when the UK government hosts the fourth in a series of high-level conferences on illegal wildlife trade. The previous …
Insight, 27 November 2017
Chronic air pollution is part of everyday life for many people in China. This photo shows Anyang, the most northern city of China's Henan province (Photo: V.T. Polywoda, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Critical theme: China pollution, social media and politics
… making the film and released it on the internet shortly before the annual full meeting of the National People's Congress, and just a day … , which traces the evolution of green activism in China. About the series IIED has set up the Critical Theme series of events to explore new ideas and broaden the knowledge of its …
Event, 16 March 2015
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Developing Markets for Watershed Protection Services and Improved Livelihoods
… This report documents the discussions held at a workshop to discuss the … China, project partners are assessing the potential for PWS through a series of diagnostic studies. Within each country, learning groups have … together with IIED have compared experiences and extracted lessons at annual project advisory group meetings. The first of these was an …
Publication, 01 December 2005
A trader wades through knee-high flooded water in a marketplace
Community voices – the climate needs you in COP26 countdown
… need to build sustainable, successful livelihoods.  Midway into this series of events, how do things stand? Are these communities getting … to get world leaders to listen to their priorities. At last year’s annual community-based action event (CBA13) , adaptation practitioners, … commitments sufficiently to meet the urgency called for in the IPCC’s report on the impacts of 1.5°C warming . And COP25 in December saw slow …
Insight, 28 January 2020
Bangladesh: schoolchildren attend lessons at a school located on a boat (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Ten lessons on community-based adaptation
… up in the scientific literature for the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report.  This spurred us to pair up researchers with practitioners to co-author a series of scientific papers based on lessons from grassroots … sustainability One of the biggest barriers to being able to run an annual event of this scale is the cost. Rather than depend on one or two …
Insight, 16 March 2016
Resource scouts such as Abdelkader, pictured in the Ewaso Ng'iro river bed, Isiolo County, gauge how best to use dry-season grazing areas (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)
The economics of local adaptation in the dryland ecosystems of Isiolo County
… Rainfall: a scarce resource In dryland ecosystems (PDF) , where total annual rainfall is less than 65 per cent of the amount needed to support … they concluded that it was well worth their investment. During a series of participatory assessment workshops held at the end of dry …
Insight, 22 April 2015
Call for agricultural research to serve people and planet
… Environment and Development (IIED) today (6 May) to coincide with the annual meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, which … Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) produced a landmark report on the future of agricultural research. But this … agricultural research system. The publication is the latest in a series called Towards Food Sovereignty: Reclaiming autonomous food …
News, 06 May 2009
More than 90 per cent of Malawians rely on rain-fed subsistence farming to survive. Increasingly variable weather patterns are reducing crop yields and eroding food security (Photo: ILRI/Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: We must ensure Paris delivers on finance
… of El Niño. IIED's Independent Expert Group has commissioned a series of interviews with leaders, experts, and civil society … of these costs. The global figure was announced in the fourth IPCC report in 2007 but it is only recently that we have been able to agree a …
Article, 24 November 2015
Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change: What role for Official Development Assistance?
… Presented at DSA Annual Conference 2008 ‘Development’s Invisible Hands: Development … exactly what this means in practice. To echo calls from a recent WRI report in relation to mainstreaming, “concrete models and approaches are … L.A. Murray. 2006. Climate change and development links. Gatekeeper series 123. IIED, London. IPCC, 2007: Summary for policymakers. In …
Article, 14 November 2008