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Why eat wild meat? Insights from Africa and lessons for COVID-19 responses
… Food and agriculture …
Event, 04 August 2020
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IIED’s 'food year' blog series explores policies and practice to transform our food systems
… to safe and nutritious food for all; shifting to sustainable consumption patterns; boosting nature-positive … in Middlebury and a member of the International Panel of Experts in Sustainable Food Systems . Her  blog discusses what needs to happen at … Food and agriculture …
News, 22 June 2021
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Case study on approaches for supporting pastoralist groups facing climate change effects in Tanzania
… economy. As such, policy and legislation in areas as wide as agriculture, natural resource management, tourism, conservation and …
Publication, 20 April 2017
A collection of IIED's most downloaded publications in 2014 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2014: publications
… Sustainable Development Goals: a forest module for a transformative … with trees) are such an important part of a number of different Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that we recommend working towards a … prices have fostered a renewed business interest in tropical agriculture.  Agricultural commercialisation concessions (ACCs) – …
Article, 29 December 2014
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Public Policy Responses for a Climate Resilient Green Economy in Ethiopia
Publication, 01 March 2014
We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
… Fighting for the future – sustainable development and the battle for ideas in 2017 January: IIED's … the world would be able to sustain its hard-fought momentum on sustainable development .  Norton highlighted issues requiring … remaining rainforests, but the continent is losing natural forests to agriculture at an alarming rate. African governments are using satellite …
Article, 22 December 2017
The logo for the Sustainable Development Goals (Image: the United Nations)
Public-private partnerships and aid's 'private turn': addressing the investment law dimensions
… to provide public goods and services across different sectors – from agriculture to energy, health, education, and water and sanitation.   … But the legal arrangements underpinning them do not necessarily place sustainable development centre-stage and could create unanticipated … Cotula ( [email protected] ) is principal researcher (law and sustainable Development) at IIED, visiting professor at Strathclyde Law …
Insight, 30 January 2018
Pits at Bekily sapphire mine in Toliara are on average 18 meters deep (Photo: Andry Rabemanantsoa/GIZ PAGE Madagascar)
Improving governance in Madagascar's artisanal and small-scale mining sector from the ground up
… action for a more responsible ASM sector, GIZ's Conservation and sustainable use of natural resources programme in Madagascar and the … Sustainable markets …
Project, 08 March 2017
The video 'Meet Mr Forest' was presented at the 2nd Beijing Documentary Week in August 2018 (Photo: Rachel E. Berkley/IIED)
New IIED videos inform Chinese consumers about Africa's forests
… founder of the 'Mr Forest' company in Mozambique, and a pioneer of sustainable Chinese investment in the country. The four-minute film was … natural resources to China. He is a true pioneer: he has promoted sustainable operating practices, adopted Chinese government guidelines … caused mainly by large-scale logging and slash-and-burn agriculture. In the film, Mr Zheng warns that if current deforestation …
News, 21 August 2018
An excerpt from the 'Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate resilient drylands development' book (Image: IIED)
Reviving knowledge in India's rainfed farming and livestock systems
… A new book that challenges those who see India's rainfed agriculture and livestock systems as inherently vulnerable to food … per cent of its 142 million hectares of arable land is under rainfed agriculture, accounting for a significant amount of major food and … and Development Studies (NISTADS), the Revitalisation of Rainfed Agriculture Network (RRAN) and the Rainfed Livestock Network (RLN), will …
News, 20 August 2015