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A woman serving food at a street stall
Common cause with people in the food systems of the majority
… of growing recognition that we’re way off course to meet the second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) – to end hunger, improve nutrition and green … food systems, of the majority poor? A new report  from the IIED-Hivos Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) programme urges caution before …
Insight, 22 June 2020
A woman miner holds a rough red garnet found at a mine in Tanzania. Tanzania's artisanal and small-scale miners are fuelled by determination and the hope to strike it big (Photo: Magali Rochat)
Four lessons on communicating ASM stories of change
… The goal is to help transform ASM into the engine of local sustainable development that it has the potential to be.  Based on solutions-focused … that illustrate how artisanal and small-scale miners contribute to sustainable development, operate professionally, and create wider … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 17 October 2017
Participants in the gender and environmental change workshop discuss REDD+ (Photo: Lucile Robinson/IIED)
Making gender equality a global and local reality
… freedom of choice and voice is increasingly being recognised in development-related fields. For example, at the Rio+20 conference on Sustainable Development, world leaders recognised gender equality as a … on the UN post-2015 development agenda and in Sustainable Development Goals, gender equality is becoming more prominent. You can read about …
Insight, 21 May 2014
Residents of Sitio San Roque, Philippines, watch a demolition team tear down their houses during an eviction (Photo: Alamy)
Briefing: Will Habitat III produce an effective "new urban agenda?"
… global United Nations conferences since the the 2015 meeting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate change summit. The stated aim of …
Event, 05 May 2016
Villagers walking back to their village, Mozambique (Image: Mike Goldwater)
IIED Annual Report 2016/17: a focus on impact
… impact in each of our four focus areas. As part of our work to  shape sustainable markets , we undertook research with our partners on finance … four countries, as well as growing interest from the international development community.  IIED's urban research stream seeks to  foster … issues: • Providing tools to help deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The SDGs provide a set of universal, indivisible goals …
Page, 27 October 2017
The experiences of mountain communities in Kyrgyzstan were shared at a learning exchange (Photo: Alan Zulch)
Mountain communities stress the importance of biocultural heritage for global food security
… and promote its role in supporting global food security and sustainable development.  The new INMIP report  documents a 2018 learning exchange … resources in food security, nutrition, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate change mitigation and adaptation. It is …
News, 15 February 2019
Cover for X00050.pdf
Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a green economy
Publication, 01 March 2011
Farmers loading tea leaves in Malawi (Photo credit: nchenga nchenga, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Empowering Producers in Commercial Agriculture (EPIC)
… constraining, fairer investments that deliver positive outcomes for sustainable development.  Yet interactions between governments, companies and rural … how to empower communities for bottom-up, locally beneficial and more sustainable investments in commercial agriculture Test socio-legal …
Project, 03 May 2018
In the foreground, a hotchpotch of buildings close together, towered over by large buildings in the background.
Firm and fair foundations to transform cities, transform lives
… en español A new report, ' Connecting for Common Goals ', marks IIED’s 50th birthday by exploring the organisation’s contribution to ten sustainable development movements. In it, IIED’s decades of work with the movement …
Article, 14 June 2022
Cover for G02180.pdf
Chapter 4 SEA EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
… Document begins: Chapter 4 SEA EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION EIA requirements are now an established … organisations have emphasised the use of SEA to promote more sustainable and integrated approaches to sectoral and broader … alleviation is a driving theme of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit of …
Publication, 01 January 1970