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Indigenous Naxi-Moso cultural values and worldviews for sustainable development: Four Village Biocultural Heritage Coalition, Yunnan, China
… knowledge and practices effectively combine food production with sustainable development, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem protection. … It also suggests that a bottom-up, community led action research approach can help address the challenges facing Indigenous Peoples and … Food and agriculture … Indigenous Naxi-Moso cultural values and worldviews for sustainable development: Four Village Biocultural Heritage Coalition, …
Publication, 06 August 2021
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… 'Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate-resilient drylands development' . A product of research from drylands counties, drawing … (for instance through imposition of inappropriate moist highland agriculture models), and instead provide the necessary investment in … region. IIED is a policy and action research organisation promoting sustainable development and linking local priorities to global …
News, 27 April 2015
Women smallholders replanting rice in the irrigated area around the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Water and land rights – hand-in-hand for sustainable development
… made the link with two big events on development and climate: the sustainable development summit taking place in New York in late … '. One of the recommendations is on promoting a rights-based approach to water for food security and nutrition. Here we are, talking … presented its research on the impacts of large scale investments in agriculture on water resources, ecosystems and livelihoods in Sub …
Insight, 25 September 2015
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Scaling up ecosystem-based adaptation in Vietnam: five case studies on best practice
… on high-tech agroforestry Tan Xuan 269 cooperative case study: how sustainable bamboo forests are supporting local livelihoods Thinh Phat … how forest garden-based agroforestry is supporting local livelihood development … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 May 2025
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Payments for Ecosystem Services in smallholder agriculture: lessons from the Hivos-IIED Learning Trajectory
… for ecosystem services (PES) as incentives to promote a shift to sustainable smallholder agriculture. Results from this research are published in the Payments for Ecosystem Services in Smallholder Agriculture series. We focus on practical learning from existing … Sustainable markets … Payments for Ecosystem Services in smallholder agriculture: lessons from the Hivos-IIED Learning Trajectory …
Publication, 01 September 2015
Groups of people gather around tables and talk
Save the date for 2020 Development and Climate Days
News, 09 November 2020
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Policies for Agricultural Sustainability in Northern Thailand
… in 1997 and its chaotic consequences for the industrial sector, agriculture is now regarded as the main strength for economic recovery. … high priority to cope with this economic crisis.For the first time, sustainable agriculture has been included in the 8th National Social and … Integration of production with marketing arrangements is seen as one approach to achieve agricultural sustainability. …
Publication, 01 January 2001
Farmer stands in her field of groundnuts boarded by maize in Malawi
Democratising food and agricultural research
Project, 17 August 2012
Delegates at the international symposium on agroecology (Photo: John Choptiany/FAO)
Agroecology offers FAO a 'new window' on agriculture
… uses ecological concepts and principles to design and manage sustainable agro-ecosystems, offering benefits for productivity, food … such as the UK's Coventry University and by international development organisations such as UNCTAD , have further raised … from the session. On the one hand, the policy agenda for world agriculture should be ambitious in pursuing ecological intensification …
Insight, 02 October 2014
A map from above showing a large green area (forest) with a large swathe of light green cutting through the centre, showing the extent of deforestatation.
Can Europe’s new deforestation regulation address concerns about trade and climate justice?
… highlights the need for environmental action to take a consultative approach and advance climate justice principles.  What is the EUDR? The … (PDF) .  Unlike these earlier efforts, the EUDR takes a unilateral approach, applied through EU legislation rather than international … letter to EU leaders (PDF) arguing that the EUDR's one-size-fits-all approach disregards local conditions; highlighting potential …
Insight, 25 March 2024