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This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
2014: the International Year of Family Farming
… According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) , family farming includes all … in the term 'family farming'. This includes carefully assessing what development trajectories different types of family farms can and want to … we understand the strategic role of family farmers in achieving sustainable development. We are partners in the Forest and Farm Facility …
Article, 22 April 2014
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Win–win in Belize: incubating community businesses that protect forests
… land concessions, agricultural expansion and dry season fires. One approach to reducing this threat involves aligning local livelihood … protected area management, resulting in the founding and growth of sustainable community forest businesses. A project funded by the Darwin … management in Belize’s biodiversity-rich lowland pine savannahs. The approach successfully established viable businesses; it also opened a …
Publication, 01 April 2018
Workers digging zaï pits that help to preserve water on farms (Photo: IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Burkina Faso
Project, 02 January 2019
Water tank made of stones
Working with nature to manage water resources in a changing climate
Insight, 22 March 2021
A group meeting on climate change on boat run by the organisation Shidhulai in Natore, Bangladesh (Photo: Tony Stonehouse/IIED)
Developing nations strengthen ability to demonstrate effective climate change adaptation
News, 27 February 2015
Miners pushing a cart out of a mine near the Bolivian town of Potosi. For centuries this area had the richest silver mines in South America. Today many of the mines are worked by local cooperatives, but conditions are still harsh (Photo Nyall & Maryanne, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Listen and learn: lessons from the small-scale mining sector
… had a bigger voice at the table in defining the language of sustainable development for the sector. It is only in this way that the … sustainable development. Its outputs continue to shape the industry's approach to sustainable development. But more than that, MMSD challenged … and small-scale mining IIED engages with small-scale producers in agriculture, forestry, fishery and energy – building capacity to get …
Insight, 05 February 2015
Matoke sellers in Uganda. Photo: Bill Vorley
Small producer agency in the globalised market
… Agriculture is still a small-farm story: half a billion farmers, working … under the spotlight as part of the answer to creating a more sustainable food future. Some of the challenges facing small-scale … assumptions, impacts, benefits and risks of approaches taken by the development community to ‘make markets work’ for small-scale farmers. …
Project, 14 May 2013
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Virtuous Circles: Values, Systems, Sustainability
… systems that are linear, centralised and globalised. In the linear approach, it is assumed that at one end of a system there is an … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 August 2012
Illustrator Jorge Martin creates a 'living graphic' to chart the conversations on 'tough talk on poverty and climate' at the 2015 Development & Climate Days (Photo: IIED/Matt Wright)
Participants in Development & Climate Days focus on "bold action needed now"
Insight, 06 December 2015
In Kenya's Isiolo County, repeated droughts are forcing pastoralists out of herding and into farming. The county has used TAMD to assess climate risk management schemes (Photo: Martin Karimi/ECHO)
Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD): Country work
… on the results of the  TAMD feasibility testing phase in Kenya . The approach in Tanzania was similar to that taken in Kenya. … research report on TAMD in Pakistan . In Ethiopia , the Ministry of Agriculture, in partnership with IIED and Echnoserve, tested the TAMD … a national climate adaptation programme – in this case the Sustainable Land Management Programme (SLMP-1) – affected local …
Article, 28 October 2014