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A Rwandan farmer checks his coffee beans. A banana tree is visible behind him.
Rwanda: test case on international commitment to financing climate change adaptation?
… in Rwanda live in rural areas and work on the land in small-scale agriculture, although tea and coffee exports are also an important source of revenue. As most agriculture is rain fed, people rely on the rains to survive. This, … a specialised fund to mobilise this finance called FONERWA , a Sustainable Financing mechanism for Environment and Climate Change …
Insight, 06 March 2013
Men and women fish off the island of Padma Pakur. Image by Espen Rasmussen/PANOS
Compensation for conservation of Bangladesh’s national fish
… Sustainable markets …
News, 28 May 2013
Cover for G03338.pdf
The Role of Traditional Knowledge and Crop Varieties in Adaptation to Climate Change and Food Security in SW China, Bolivian Andes and coastal Kenya
… knowledge (TK) – relating to adaptive ecosystem management and sustainable use of natural resources. The three case studies presented … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 September 2011
Cover for 6060IIED.pdf
Perspectives in Soil Erosion in Africa: Whose problem?
… place different priorities on land husbandry activities, including sustainable agriculture programmes. …
Publication, 01 January 1989
Cover for G02092.pdf
Foreword (PLA 50)
… raising of Gordon Conway’s eyebrows, a quick nod of my head, and the Sustainable Agriculture team at IIED had taken you on! Since then of course you have …
Publication, 01 October 2004
Illustrator Jorge Martin creates a 'living graphic' to chart the conversations on 'tough talk on poverty and climate' at the 2015 Development & Climate Days (Photo: IIED/Matt Wright)
Participants in Development & Climate Days focus on "bold action needed now"
Insight, 06 December 2015
Publication cover image.
20:20 vision – from the realities, the cures
… partnerships helped influence the management of forests, drylands, agriculture and marine resources; reshape thinking on energy, climate … evidence, collaboration and long-term action are essential to create sustainable societies that protect natural resources while meeting the …
Publication, 05 July 1992
A village in Burkina Faso. Land investment in Africa is growing driven by rises in global food prices, companies who see market opportunities in biofuels, and overseas countries anxious to secure their food supplies through direct investment. Photo: Tex
‘Land grabbing’ in Africa: Biofuels are not off the hook
… through the Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and Northern Regions. Land deals for agriculture may compound pressures from other sources, such as … Africa since 2005. A study published in 2009 by IIED, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Fund for Agricultural … communities have filed a formal complaint with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), alleging violations of RSPO standards and …
Insight, 16 October 2013
Introducing improved climbing bean varieties in Rwanda has transformed beans from a subsistence crop into a cash crop (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Flickr)
How are Rwanda, Ethiopia and Bangladesh preparing for climate change?
Insight, 24 November 2014
Leaders of the Southern Aberdare Conservation Network (SACN) discussing support from the Forest and Farm Facility (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Taking the brakes off forest farm development in Kenya
… FFF is a multi-donor funding programme co-managed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) , the International … cooperation programme with Germany's Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) has such overlap in vision that it arranged a joint …
Insight, 11 November 2014