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2021 Barbara Ward Lecture: Rebeca Grynspan says nothing is ever so small that it cannot make a difference
Article, 16 December 2021
Bolivian family farming organisations show a poster about their award-winning coffee business development activity at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Modern food systems to emerge in new decade of family farming
… these men and women farmers to adapt to, and mitigate, climate change – a modern solution to problems cause by an outdated industrial … approach.   Family farms helping to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals Many of the organisations present in Bilbao are … Family farming partner organisations of FFF also met to share success stories and plans for a new second phase of work that will complement …
Insight, 04 April 2019
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iii Contents Foreword. v Summary . vii Introduction . 1 Chapter 1: Meeting the MDGs - Is Conservation Relevant?
… Roe and Joanna Elliott . 7 Case Study 1: Lessons from Tanzania on Mainstreaming Environment into the New Poverty Reduction Strategy . 21 … ­ Health and Conservation Eric Chivian .25 Chapter 3: Climate Change ­ Biodiversity and Livelihood Impacts Hannah Reid .37 iv Case … and Sustainability . 127 Chapter 8: Scaling Up Community Success Stories ­ Experience from the Equator Prize Michael Hooper, Rubab Jafry, …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Green economics – surviving the trial
… while an ecological crisis grows quietly in the background. Falling biodiversity rates and rising atmospheric CO2 levels are just a couple … meet sustainable development objectives. This is a vital step towards mainstreaming and implementing the principles of green economics, and … as history has shown they can often be the most powerful agents of change. Visit the Green Economy Coalition website to find out more …
Insight, 17 November 2011
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
… had been broken down.  In the 1987 IIED annual report, it says "change is in the air… with the Brundtland Report Our Common Future … make a living in the drylands. We wanted to show many of the positive stories around local action and land rights in these extensive dryland … And alongside climate, we must also remember the vital role played by biodiversity, water, soil, and forests in providing livelihoods and …
Insight, 22 June 2015