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A young person holds up a sign, saying "There is no planet B" among a march
IIED at 50: how can we harness youth’s energy to drive positive change?
… shape their futures, and describes how to set youth on a path towards sustainable leadership. Q: What does it take to get young people … long run, the focus needs to be on local ownership. This will support sustainable use of natural resources in forestry, fisheries, agriculture and wildlife. Conservation must be profitable so young …
Article, 22 June 2022
Workshop participants displayed and exchanged seeds from different parts of the world (Image: Yiching Song/Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy)
New film shows Chinese mountain communities protecting biocultural heritage
News, 14 March 2017
Women discuss forest management at a Community Forest User Group meeting in Nepal.
When pigs fly: Why is including women in managing forests still so unusual?
… workshop from Sept 22-24, organised by Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) and The Forests … Which of these support or obstruct women’s inclusion? Are projects in sustainable forest management that focus on women’s roles and needs more … Knowledge Management Coordinator for Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management. …
Insight, 24 September 2012
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Instruments for Sustainable Private Forestry in Brazil: An analysis of needs, challenges and opportunities for natural forest management and small-scale plantation forestry (Instrumentos para o manejo sustentavel do setor florestal privado no Brasil)
… Brazil presents particular challenges for sustainable forest management. Much of its forest is on private land and there are strong pressures to make land available for agriculture, while forests have traditionally been seen as obstacles to … Instruments for Sustainable Private Forestry in Brazil: An analysis of needs, challenges …
Publication, 01 January 2002
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Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development in Ethiopia
… at different scales. In partnership with Ethiopia’s Ministry of Agriculture, IIED and Echnoserve have been testing the TAMD approach by assessing how the Sustainable Land Management Programme is contributing to building …
Publication, 01 December 2014
The new OpenLandContracts.org database will contain the details of publicly available investment contracts from around the world (Image: Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI))
New online database of investment contracts hailed as a "game changer"
… The new online database is being launched by the Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI) , a research centre on sustainable international investment based at Columbia University. The  … of publicly available investment contracts for large-scale land, agriculture, and forestry projects from around the world. It will allow …
News, 06 October 2015
Asociacion Andes team
Asociación ANDES: from local potato farmers to global strategies for protecting crop diversity and Indigenous rights
… Organisation:  Asociación ANDES (Association for Nature and Sustainable Development) Founded:  1995 Location: Peru Sector: … Food and agriculture …
Article, 03 August 2022
Low-cost solar lanterns enable a boy to study at home in the small village of Shidhulai in the Natore District of northwestern Bangladesh (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Universal energy access: combining public and private sector efforts
… Wilson ( [email protected] ) is a principal researcher in IIED's Sustainable Markets Group  and the leader of IIED's energy and … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 30 September 2014
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Urbanization and its implications for food and farming
… and of workers in industrial and service enterprises. Globally, agriculture has met the demands from this rapidly growing urban … dwellers suffer under-nutrition. So the key issues with regard to agriculture and urbanization are whether the growing and changing … need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to build resilience in agriculture and urban development > to climate change impacts. The paper …
Publication, 01 September 2010
Water tanker.
Beyond the city’s borders: water and sanitation access for refugees in Mafraq
… draws to a close, we will be presenting options for more equitable, sustainable and affordable WASH provision for peri-urban neighbourhoods …
Insight, 28 September 2023