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Members of Likawage Village Natural Resources Committee use beaters to prevent a lit fire from burning backwards towards farms (Photo: Deogratias Ndossi)
Making REDD+ work for communities and forests: three shared lessons for project designers
Article, 10 April 2014
This farmer in India's Maharashtra state gets weather alerts, advisories about pests and market information via his mobile phone (Photo: Borlaug Institute for South Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)
CBA13: unlocking the power of technology to build climate resilience
Article, 27 February 2019
Biomass in the red – but can we put biomass into REDD+?
… an immediate food security crisis but are unlikely to be financially sustainable in the long term. For the first time, accurate maps of … Roughly 90 per cent of Malawians depend on rain-fed subsistence agriculture for food and the country lies 15th on Maplecroft’s Climate … intensification — to provide food for growing populations — and sustainable biomass energy supply — to provide the means for cooking …
Insight, 18 July 2011
Small and medium forest enterprises and associations
Project, 11 June 2008
African Climate Policy Centre director Fatima Denton speaks at the 2015 Development & Climate Days event at COP21 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Breaking out of the development silos
News, 22 March 2016
The Potato Park’s Craft micro-enterprise group. Biocultural heritage indicators that are a guarantee of origin and authenticity have increased incomes and improved social cohesion at the Potato Park (Photo: Asociacion ANDES (Peru))
Designing a biocultural heritage labelling system: survey results
… support climate change adaptation and end hunger, including the Sustainable Development Goals. We'll keep you posted as the scheme moves … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 16 January 2017
Timbuktu, Mali: A woman pours water from an irrigation canal onto her garden. Mali's climate-resilient agricultural plan will promote better irrigation systems (Photo: Marco Dormino/MINUSMA)
Least developed country leaders say "follow us" to tackle climate change
Insight, 06 October 2014
Farmers analyse local maize varieties in the Karst mountains, Southwest China. IIED's work includes participatory plant breeding and community supported agriculture (Photo: IIED)
Can ecosystem-based adaptation help deliver the promise of Paris?
Insight, 13 January 2017
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Natural Resource Management and Land Policy in Developing Countries: Lessons learned and new challenges for the World Bank
… Natural resource management has taken its place alongside agriculture as a major rural development concern. A more integrated … of the viability of production systems that make extensive but sustainable use of fragile resources, such as those of pastoralists. …
Publication, 01 January 2002
An association of farmers in northeast Myanmar carries out value chain analysis of elephant foot yam (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Strengthening producer organisations is key to making finance inclusive and effective
Article, 12 March 2019