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A storm rages over downtown Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in the early evening (Photo: Jeff_Holmes via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Three ways developing nations can close the climate finance gaps
Insight, 04 April 2014
Polluted air coming out of the smoke stacks of a factory in Shanghai, China.
The least developed countries, equity, and a brave new world
Insight, 02 July 2013
Government officials and researchers discuss the future of hilsa management on 19 January (Photo: Essam Mohammed/IIED)
UK's Darwin Initiative funded project strives to reduce threats to hilsa fish
… The researchers, from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) … The Department of Fisheries has made commendable efforts to ensure sustainable management of hilsa fishery in Bangladesh, compensating the … "The economic incentive-based hilsa fishery management is a unique approach we introduced to induce behavioural change of fishers to ensure …
News, 19 January 2015
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2017 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2017: publications
Article, 28 December 2017
Cover for G01055.pdf
ABS and Poverty: Practical Approaches for Reducing Poverty through ABS
… held on 3rd February 2006. World leaders have agreed the Millennium Development Goals which set a series of targets, mainly for 2015, for … especially in developing countries". The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), which provided the mandate for … can only be reversed if local people benefit from conservation and sustainable use, particularly in countries of origin of genetic …
Publication, 01 March 2006
Central Malawi: Belia Sikelo farms groundnuts using 'conservation agriculture', a set of practices including no-till farming, designed improve soil structure and help resist erosion. (Photo: T. Samson/CIMMYT)
2015: the International Year of Soils
… to the provision of key ecosystem services. However, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)  says that … resource; its preservation is essential for food security and our sustainable future. The FAO is working on range of initiatives, … argue that productive systems need to follow a more natural circular approach to provide food and other resources sustainably. Finally, IIED …
Article, 09 April 2015
A pot with bubbling food sits cooking on an open fire.
Sustainable energy: can a new initiative succeed where Rio+20 failed?
… people who don't currently have it. Energy for all Step forward Sustainable Energy For All (SE4ALL) — led by UN secretary-general Ban … energy services, such as clean cooking and productive energy for agriculture and small business. Current large-scale public and private … civil society organisations.  Time will tell whether the voluntary approach of SE4ALL will allow the flexibility for governments and …
Insight, 25 June 2012
A Subanen harvest dance during a colourful street dancing competition of Kinabayo Festival. Community action by the Subanen tribe in Midsalip prevents mining companies from encroaching their land (Photo: Mark Navales/Google Licence)
Citizen power: Sustaining paralegal programmes to put knowledge back into communities' hands
… participants agreed that a flexible, but also a carefully tailored approach, is important. Paralegals can be trained in wide-ranging …
Insight, 14 October 2014
A carpenter uses a jointer powered by a mini-grid
Productive uses of energy to jumpstart livelihoods
Article, 09 December 2020
Deforestation and fire ravage a forest area in Uganda (Photo: Paul Hatanga)
Random trials in Uganda to show if payments for ecosystems services really work
… Conservation Trust, International Institute of Environment and Development, Uganda's National Environment Management Authority and the … or not, with individual farmers negotiating their own contracts. This approach will allow us to assess the actual impact of the PES scheme, … testing new drugs. The development sector is increasingly using this approach to test how effective interventions in education, health and …
Insight, 10 March 2014