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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 … and transportation in urban centres top the list. "The traditional approach has added clean air to that list of basics too. So we must fix …
Insight, 07 June 2016
A road full of congested traffic.
IIED and partner events at the World Urban Forum (WUF10)
… international gathering for exchanging views and experiences on sustainable urbanisation. IIED’s researchers and partners shared … and response in cities: it’s time to take a whole of society approach Date:  Sunday, 9 February 2020  Venue: World Urban Forum – Hall … innovative approaches to cope with food insecurity, including urban agriculture and community garden initiatives, community buyers’ …
Event, 08 February 2020
Colombia's government and left-wing insurgents sign a historic agreement ending 52 years of conflict. Some commentators suggest the peace process has opened the way for major progress on the SDGs (Photo: Gobierno de Chile, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
SDGs: from adopted framework to political force for change
… We are now 13 months into the 15-year lifespan of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – early enough that much of the … described the two possible pathways for pursuing 'sustainable agriculture' in his country – by improving resource efficiency through … the choices, dilemmas and trade-offs more coherently.   A siloed approach to planning makes it hard to deal with 'wicked problems': India …
Insight, 17 February 2017
People gathering branches
Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile
… (NbS) for adaptation or ecosystem-based adaptation , and is an approach that is attracting growing support – not only in Chile but … to control pests and restore more drought-tolerant native trees. The Sustainable Mediterranean Communities (in Spanish) project supports … go beyond sectoral silos: for example, ministries of environment, agriculture, infrastructure and education need to work together to raise …
Insight, 12 December 2019
A six-minute film recorded in the Mathare settlement, Narobi, in late April 2015 shows some of the main challenges faced by food vendors living and working inside low-income informal settlements (Image: Paolo Cravero/IIED)
Informal food vendors: urban food security's invisible experts
… often view informal food vendors as obstacles to infrastructure development and traffic flow… as sources of unsafe food and pollution. … and their customers in informal urban settlements. A community-based approach In Nairobi, the Muungano wa Wanavijiji , a federation of Kenyan … to  International Labour Organization data (PDF) . To achieve sustainable urban food security, the knowledge and insights from local …
Insight, 24 June 2015
Workshop participants displayed and exchanged seeds from different parts of the world (Image: Yiching Song/Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy)
New film shows Chinese mountain communities protecting biocultural heritage
… own biocultural heritage territory, and the biocultural territories approach is being trialled in three emerging Globally Important …
News, 14 March 2017
We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
Article, 22 December 2017
A man walks with his roaming goats.
Current policy narratives limit climate resilience in world’s dry regions
… long learnt how to live with and harness this variability to support sustainable and productive economies, societies and ecosystems." … published country-specific papers on the following topics. Rainfed agriculture: for an inclusive, sustainable and food secure India . … location-specific, decentralised, integrated, and knowledge-centric approach that pro-actively exploits diversity and variability to sustain …
News, 19 April 2013
Cover for G02091.pdf
DOUBLE ISSUE - 50th special participatory learning and action
… by London WC1H 0DD, UK. Recherche et de Planification Participa- the Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Tel: +44 (0)20 7388 2117 tive (MARP), and many … Email: [email protected] the full participation of people in the and Development (IIED), Participatory Website: www.iied.org processes of … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 October 2004
Populations of bees, butterflies and other pollinators are declining, posing potential risks to important world food crops (Photo: Brian McGill)
The economics of mass extinction
… is essential if we are to build a better, more equitable and more sustainable society for the future. Our research and that of IPBES is in … climate change; climate action is only one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.   But our economies, blind to the risks of ecosystem … has done little to roll back this tide of extinction. A new approach is required.  So while the work of George Monbiot others is …
Insight, 29 May 2018