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Four women farmers bend over to work their land
Climate justice and the IPCC special report on land
Insight, 13 August 2019
IIED will be participating in a range of event at Habitat III, the global UN summit on urban issues
IIED at Habitat III: event listing
… document' aims to set global standards of achievement in sustainable urban development, and secure cooperation from global stakeholders to rethink … County Government of Kiambu, Kenya; Federation of the Urban and Rural Poor (FEDUP), South Africa; Lagos State Urban Renewal Agency, …
Event, 20 October 2016
A community-owned Mexican sawmill in Oaxaca (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)
Incendiary observations from the 4th FLARE conference
… enriching tree cover, as I explain below Mining and infrastructure development are the third major cause of forest loss and equally … production schemes. Cooperative business models that can mobilise the rural masses need assistance if they are to deliver widespread benefits … we need to make governments and donors aware of the huge potential of sustainable smallholder forestry. IIED and FAO partners at the Forest …
Insight, 22 October 2018
Women harvesting brinjal near the Indian city of Gorakhpur. Peri-urban agriculture helps to ensure local food supplies, especially of fruit and vegetables (Photo: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group)
Farming on the city's periphery to enhance resilience
Insight, 09 June 2015
Cover for G03067.pdf
Hivos Provocation Insights 1: Producer agency and the agenda to make markets work for the poor
… producers to markets. This reflects the prevailing consensus in development policy that markets can and should play a central role in … the growing list of expectations of smallholders — as drivers of rural economic development and food security, as suppliers for agribusiness, as … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 February 2011
Woman selling vegetables
Agricultural contracts and farmer agency: a shift in perspective
… farmers in their supply chains. This focus mirrors prevailing development approaches, which prioritise including farmers in … Download the report ' Contracts in commercial agriculture: enhancing rural producer agency ' IIED’s 'Empowering Producers in Commercial … decisions and private sector conduct for locally beneficial and more sustainable investments in commercial agriculture. …
Insight, 16 May 2021
Man looks at two chimpanzees on a forest path
Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
Article, 21 July 2020
Cover for 16521IIED.pdf
Small producer agency in the globalised market: making choices in a changing world
… in markets, in land and other resources, and in the demographics of rural communities. This book presents the results of a three-year … and local economies. This book challenges our institutions and the development community, both in terms of our assumptions on the roles of … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 November 2012
The Ewaso Ng'iro River, in Isiolo County's Shaba National Reserve, Kenya where pilot projects to support adaptation 'may not yet be perfect, but have the right idea'. (Photo: Ninara via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Why community 'based' adaptation to climate change is not enough
… joined-up thinking and implementation. Revisiting the experience with sustainable development implementation in India through the lens of adaptation, … more power to local governments, through programmes like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) and its innovative social …
Insight, 18 March 2014
Clearing forest for a palm oil plantation in Borneo (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Commodity cycles, economic treaties and pressures on land rights
… countries placed land rights at the centre of international development discourses.  In many agrarian societies land underpins … and elders; herders and farmers; new and longstanding settlers; and rural actors and urban elites.  These conflicts are linked to growing … by IIED , Tufts University (PDF)  and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment have highlighted how international investment …
Insight, 25 May 2016