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Ethical land-based community carbon
… offsets from reforestation, forest conservation and `climate-smart’ agriculture (Hamrick and Gallant, 2017a). But to ensure the success of … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 March 2018
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Briefs on Selected Focus Areas
… Focus area 2. Sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition Focus area 5. Gender equality …
Publication, 01 April 2014
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Trivial Pursuits? Reconciling sustainable rural development and the global economic institutions
… This paper reviews attempts to integrate the concept of sustainable rural development into the thinking of the global economic … Food and agriculture … Trivial Pursuits? Reconciling sustainable rural development and the global economic institutions …
Publication, 01 November 1999
Climate adaptation: old wine in new bottles?
Insight, 29 March 2011
Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
IIED's best of 2015: blogs
… the world. Let us mourn Cecil, but be careful what we wish for. Sustainable agriculture in China: then and now March: The environmental impacts of … Beijing that analysed the challenges and opportunities for  promoting sustainable agricultural practices in China. China's venerable history …
Article, 22 December 2015
GWI influence - access and rights to irrigated land - planting rice - Selingue dam - Mali
Global Water Initiative: Mali
… Context 75% of the active population is dependent on agriculture and it represents 40% of GDP; irrigated agriculture makes up 34% of the country's agricultural production. Rice … councils within our project area. These can be grouped as follows: Sustainable drinking-water supply Water points – including boreholes and …
Project, 16 February 2018
Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons)
IIED's best of 2014: blogs
… and IIED consultant researcher Mike Day. "Unless you offer a viable sustainable alternative livelihood, then any other intervention is … or postpone deforestation" Seven papers unpick debates on African agriculture and rural development October: To mark World Food Day on 15 … without changing the implementers? July: The latest draft of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets contains a stunning list of …
Article, 31 December 2014
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89 6 Sustainable Landscapes - Linking Conservation and Production
… Document begins: 89 6 Sustainable Landscapes ­ Linking Conservation and Production Jeffrey A. … Island Press, Washington D.C. 90 such approach is the concept of `sustainable landscapes'. This chapter examines the `ecosystem approach' … on Biological Diversity (CBD) ­ as the conceptual framework for sustainable landscapes Chapter 6 and then explores `ecoagriculture' as a …
Publication, 01 January 1970
A carpenter uses a jointer powered by a mini-grid
Productive uses of energy to jumpstart livelihoods
… to use electricity more effectively and support progress to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 – ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. Electricity use among poorer … Rafiki Power (now PowerGen ), the European Committee for Training and Agriculture ( CEFA ) , and the Matembwe Village Company (MVC) to …
Article, 09 December 2020
An audience gathers to listen to a presentation as information on land is shared by Open Data Myanmar (Photo: Open Data Myanmar)
IIED webinar: using web platforms to promote transparency and strengthen land rights
… the seminar Sam Szoke-Burke , legal research at Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment (CCSI) , introduced the Open Land … is a legal researcher for the CCSI's focus areas of land and agriculture, and extractive industries. He also specialises in the … Food and agriculture …
Event, 06 July 2016