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Rows of small dishes containing various types of vegetable seeds, including beans and grains
Madagascar needs agroforestry businesses in its response to climate change
… Facility . This training, led by IIED, was in risk management and sustainable business incubation. Most of the participants from Ghana, … sure that these producer organisations understand how to incubate sustainable businesses and manage business risks (including those linked … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 27 September 2019
En route to San José, Costa Rica. Credit: cicsc1970
Nature has values, and markets can be governed
… farmers who maintain hedgerows and buffer strips, or practise organic agriculture. In Kenya, negotiations underway for a scheme to reward … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 10 August 2012
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Food Consumption, Urbanisation and Rural Transformation. Workshop report, London
… In 2014 IIED launched the project Food transitions: sustainable consumption policies across the rural-urban divide aimed at … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 February 2015
Chinese timber business in Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
China-Africa trade and investment: benefiting Africa's rural informal economy?
… area for them to flourish and persist. Ultimately, to promote China's sustainable and pro-poor engagement in the region, we need to understand …
Insight, 31 March 2015
Tick tock — it’s the year of forests
… 3.9 billion hectares of forests across the world. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimate that, between 2000 and 2005, the … manage multi-functional forest landscapes, but also control huge sustainable commercial sawmilling and pulp and paper companies. …
Insight, 22 December 2010
Smog over Kathamandu. Air pollution in Nepal's capital regularly breaches the World Health Organisation's safety guidelines (Kashish Das Shrestha)
Clearing the air in Kathmandu
… representative from Kathmandu and the chairman of the government's Agriculture and Energy Committee. He is also the father of two daughters … below the age of five.  "At this rate, not only will we miss our Sustainable Development Goal targets, but we risk undoing the gains we … Thapa explained. "We have the option of leapfrogging straight to sustainable solutions. There is already a lot of proven technology we …
Insight, 07 June 2016
Cover for G03979.pdf
The Tuggoz Declaration on Climate Change and Mountain Indigenous Peoples
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 October 2015
Four people sit on the floor to look at a map on the ground.
In her name: securing land tenure for women in Zambia
… programme also develops opportunities for communities to benefit from sustainable natural resource management. This is the third of four …
Insight, 14 October 2021
Isilda Nhantumbo, Bright Sibale, and Duncan Macqueen exchange ideas at a Forest Governance Learning Group Learning Event in Mozambique. Photo: Leianne Rolington
Private sector involvement with REDD+
… to foster engagement with REDD+ strategies. In both countries, agriculture, logging and charcoal production are driving deforestation … legal frameworks, identify incentives and opportunities for promoting sustainable land uses – including land tenure rights and government land use policies to incentivise long-term investments in sustainable land uses. The opportunity to attract more private sector …
Project, 12 September 2013
Farmers in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces in Southwestern China have responded to climatic adversity by innovating to increase productivity using less water (Image: IIED)
Why listen to and support the most vulnerable?
… The declaration for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pledges that no one will be left … for Human Rights states that " a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment is integral to the full enjoyment of a wide …
Insight, 02 October 2015