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Two men pushing a boat filled with mangrove seedlings
Finding solutions in nature for climate change
Insight, 29 May 2020
A woman sitting on a raised platform
Urban food insecurity and malnutrition are about more than just food
… and obese adults and one in three stunted children. To achieve Sustainable Development Goal target 2.2 of eliminating all forms of … where traders and city authorities have negotiated a flexible approach  to managing urban public spaces.  Food concerns hit women … between traders and consumers , especially small-scale vendors. Urban agriculture projects not only contribute to healthier diets but equally …
Insight, 16 October 2019
Aerial view of a floded town and vegetation
National Adaptation Plans: LDCs need financing to turn words into reality
… adaptation needs in sectors such as water resource management, agriculture and food security, with strategies for addressing them. The … but that are more short term. Meanwhile, Bhutan has taken a proactive approach, and begun implementing its NAP while the plan is still being … them to directly access funding and support locally relevant and sustainable adaptation efforts, and Investments in data collection and …
Insight, 24 April 2023
Cover for 22016g.pdf
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 urban development have had vague or contradictory solutions to problems …
Publication, 20 April 2017
Cover for 13606IIED.pdf
Access to finance for forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs)
… patterns are squeezing forests – especially through industrial agriculture. But many of the 1.5 billion people who live within the … corporations. Investment to add value to that production and make it sustainable and resilient will be key to delivering the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. Growing forest and …
Publication, 01 December 2018
A typical Kenya milk bar. Packaged milk in supermarkets has been found to be no better at meeting food safety standards than raw milk sold from kiosks (Photo: International Livestock Research Institute, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Lessons in informality from Kenya's dairy sector
… largest dairy producer. And informal markets more broadly – in agriculture, street vending, forestry and mining – provide jobs and … with support from a local NGO and DFID, attempted a 'light-touch' approach. They oversaw a training and certification scheme linked to … ([email protected]) is a consultant researcher in IIED's Sustainable Markets Group . Related resource: Legitimising informal …
Insight, 03 November 2015
Informal food vendors in Mathare, Nairobi. Understanding food consumption and how food systems work is essential to support food security (Photo: Cecilia Tacoli/IIED)
Urbanisation, rural-urban transformations and food systems
Project, 31 August 2016
Woman looking to the front holding a water hose, a solar panel in the background
Where’s the capital for homegrown companies? Why energy access investments in Kenya need to go local
… needed to accelerate and deploy the SHS systems necessary to achieve sustainable energy for all (as Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7  calls for) in Kenya. The Shell Foundation and … using subsidies to target and incentivise specific impacts in agriculture, developing a model for how to incentivise local ownership …
Insight, 29 December 2020
Should public money from Europe used to build wind farms, such as this one in Mulan, around 170km north east of Harbin City in Heilongiang, China, constitute official development assistance? (Photo: Land Rover Our Planet, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Development finance and climate finance: achieving zero poverty and zero emissions
Insight, 01 June 2015
Uganda meeting
Making markets work for small-scale farmers? A series of ‘provocation’ seminars
… 28 September 2010   Provocation 2: Rights-based versus market-based development: a false dichotomy?   Stockholm, Sweden, 3 March 2011   … working on the provocations included: Centre for Learning on sustainable agriculture (ILEIA) Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Markets (ESFIM) … Food and agriculture … Sustainable markets …
Event, 28 September 2010