Search results

159 results
A group of people standing outside
Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
… Lodry Dongmo, African Network of Young Leaders for Peace and Sustainable Development, Cameroon In the Marketplace: climate-proofing … about areas that are especially unsafe.  Naseem Shaikh, of SSP India, described a project that aims to address poor nutrition in … to participate in the UN Food Summit and share on regenerative agriculture! What a privilege. - Jenninah Kabiswa, World Renew Kenya …
Article, 14 June 2021
The Potato Park’s Craft micro-enterprise group. Biocultural heritage indicators that are a guarantee of origin and authenticity have increased incomes and improved social cohesion at the Potato Park (Photo: Asociacion ANDES (Peru))
Designing a biocultural heritage labelling system: survey results
… and experts from many countries – including Peru, Argentina, Kenya, India, China, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. We got some great … support climate change adaptation and end hunger, including the Sustainable Development Goals. We'll keep you posted as the scheme moves … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 16 January 2017
Green shoots and REDD herrings
… community control since 2002 in countries like Cameroon, Tanzania and India, but in general rights are commonly in the wrong hands and … Korean market. Biofuel developments are spreading in Malawi, Ghana, India, Indonesia and many other countries. The trade-offs with the local … forest resources; strong civil society support for, and scrutiny of, sustainable forestry; and regular and systematic monitoring. Social …
Insight, 15 October 2009
Group of participants stand for a picture during the International Forest Connect workshop in Nepal in February 2013.
Forest Connect
… resource and business management that is critical for equitable and sustainable development. Unlike many industrial-scale business models, … enterprises, and then their associations in Brazil, China, Guyana, India, South Africa and Uganda. Forest Connect catalysed practical … steering committee, and was co-managed by IIED, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , The Center for People …
Project, 12 September 2013
View of Harpan village of Panchase – the upstream of Phewa Lake (Photo: Amit Poudyal/IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Nepal
Project, 26 June 2018
Old woman in profile in front of thatched hut and mud house. Niger.
Making gender and generation matter
… and contributed to the emerging debates on poverty reduction and sustainable development. Background Social change is closely intertwined … dweller Federation, Mahila Milan, which was established in Mumbai, India with the support of a local NGO, the Society for the Promotion of … Facility processes. Because gender disparities profoundly shape agriculture and other land use, REDD+ readiness plans should not only …
Project, 26 April 2011
Global forest plan could boost fight against poverty and climate change
… or participated in focus groups in Brazil, China, Ghana, Guyana, India, Russia and Mozambique, as well as at international meetings. A … it should interact effectively with other sectors such as water and agriculture, where the underlying causes of forest problems – and the seeds of sustainable solutions – are often lodged. "Without these building …
News, 09 July 2008
More than 100 representatives of indigenous mountain communities met in Peru's Potato Park in April 2017 to share their expertise and build their international network (Photo: Lucia Flórez Zelaya)
Mountain indigenous peoples call for support for biocultural landscapes to achieve the SDGs
News, 28 June 2017
The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is one of the world's largest cities. It is surrounded by rivers and lies only a few metres above sea level. The urban poor living in flood-prone areas are most threatened by climate change (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
The IPCC and an urbanising planet
… form urbanisation takes in rapidly urbanising nations, with China and India as the most spectacular examples, and has vast implications not … do, they lack the means or the channels to support this.   Within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) discussions, there is little … densification can preserve land carbon stocks and land for agriculture and bioenergy." The above quotes all come from the Climate …
Insight, 06 November 2014
Our successful animation was devised to popularise the Sustainable Development Goals. But that doesn't mean we didn't make mistakes (Image: IIED/Hands Up)
Global goals, global audience – how well did we score?
…  – that we created three months ago to raise awareness about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the potential of the new … (applying to all countries) and their emphasis on all aspects of sustainable development, especially the environment. For universality, … To emphasise the environmental focus, we included access to water in India, marine pollution in Somalia and food waste in the UK. The …
Insight, 18 September 2015