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A trolley load and shelves of cinnamon dry inside a special drying facility
Vietnamese forest and farm producers work towards more resilient livelihoods and landscapes
… role in improving food security, reducing poverty, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But many family farms are … To help family farms to achieve their potential, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched the Decade of Family Farming … and cultural services. Investing in organisation is the foundational approach of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) , which is jointly …
Insight, 27 May 2019
Women sit next to piles of vegetables like onions, tomatoes, garlic.
Five pathways to deliver rapid support for a green and resilient COVID-19 recovery in the LDCs
Insight, 30 September 2021
Sales to processor at wholesale market. Photo: Jikun Huang
Regoverning Markets
Project, 09 August 2013
The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)
Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
… The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represented a new approach to international cooperation, grounded in principles of … international scientist with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the Center for International Forestry Research …
Article, 03 August 2015
Leaders of the Southern Aberdare Conservation Network (SACN) discussing support from the Forest and Farm Facility (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Taking the brakes off forest farm development in Kenya
… by inadequate legal and policy frameworks for farm forestry development, and a lack of familiarity and confidence that tree farming … FFF is a multi-donor funding programme co-managed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) , the International … the world struggle to adapt to and mitigate climate change, the FFF approach of investing in locally controlled forestry (ILCF) is …
Insight, 11 November 2014
Left: Women and schoolgirls discuss the benefits of harvesting rainwater (Credit: ISET). Right: A girl collects water from the rainwater storage tank (Credit: Fawad Khan)
Climate adaptation and good development: two sides of the same coin
Insight, 18 March 2014
The Saloum Delta Biosphere Reserve in Senegal (Photo: El Hadji Ballé Seye/UICN-Sénégal)
EBA Evidence and Policy: Senegal
… to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change and promote sustainable development. Between 2015 and 2019, IIED, the  International … Initiative (IPAR). After recognising the relevance of the EbA approach, participants recommended that pilot initiatives should be developed in key sectors of agriculture, livestock, fisheries and forestry in order to have more …
Project, 02 April 2019
Customers at a milk bar in Ndumbuini in Kabete, Nairobi. Research in Kenya has found that milk sold in this way had similar bacterial levels to those sold in formal markets (Photo: ILRI/Paul Karaimu)
What do street food, charcoal, gold, mobile phones and milk have in common?
… countries, and the proportion is likely to be much higher if agriculture is included.  Many people in these informal trades and … unsafe, bad for the environment, bad for consumer health, and bad for sustainable development. The evidence doesn't always bear this out. For example: … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 17 December 2014
A community-based green energy project: Sinteyo and the women's group with solar panels at the greenhouse in Isiolo, Kenya (Photo: Annie Bungeroth/CAFOD)
Sharing the load: who pays for energy access?
… finance work.  The question was raised at last week's United Nations Sustainable Energy For All Forum – and will be the focus of a session organised by CAFOD , CIDSE and IIED at the European Union Development Days (EDD) in Brussels next week. What are the different … do not form a homogenous group. A commercial or semi-commercial approach might work for energy providers serving people living on US …
Insight, 29 May 2015
Five ways to boost stocks of the Bay of Bengal’s beloved hilsa fish
News, 28 November 2013