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Responding to climate change in the Caribbean
… Caribbean Community have endorsed a Regional Framework for Achieving Development Resilience to Climate Change (2009–2015), which encourages … Investment in infrastructure — to minimise damage to both rural and urban areas, and to develop alternative energy sources — will need funding. This calls for the development of new financing solutions, involving the small private …
Insight, 05 July 2011
COP20 begins in Lima, where negotiators have gathered to discuss action to tackle global climate change (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20)
Event, 01 December 2014
A man stands by a tree stump in Mozambique.
REDD+: What is needed to make it work for the poor?
… Bolsa Floresta (which means Forest Allowance), run by the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation in forest reserves in the Amazonas state Brazil, … with  support to community level investments in social services and development of local income-generating activities.    The Micaia … REDD+ to work for poor forest-dependent communities, the voices of rural households and local evidence of what works and what doesn’t, need …
Insight, 06 December 2012
An early sunrise at COP14 in Poznan (Photo: Friends of the Earth, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
COP14 UN Climate Change Conference
… Virtual Poznan.  [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T5IN_Q9WRw] Development and Climate (D&C) Days IIED and partners organised the  … intertwined issues. Unsustainable development drives climate change; sustainable development can reduce vulnerability to it. Development … on access to land in producer countries, particularly for poorer rural people? Biofuels could revitalise rural agriculture and …
Event, 20 December 2008
A family guards their crops from wild animals on the boundary of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Conservation works better with social justice
… All too often, Integrated Conservation and Development (ICD) projects fail to stop poaching, encroachment and other … as important a driver of hunting (and other illegal activities) as rural poverty. Social justice is needed  When presenting our research … by local people, reduced human-wildlife conflict and better access to sustainable resource use. Around Bwindi, our research and U-PCLG's …
Insight, 20 August 2014
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Banishing the biopirates: a new approach to protecting traditional knowledge
… as well as a wealth of traditional medicines and techniques for sustainable agriculture and resource use. Yet this knowledge is rapidly … and economic globalisation processes which undermine traditional rural livelihoods. This loss is occurring despite the fact that the …
Publication, 01 December 2006
Food and cotton certification schemes are no panacea for poorer producers
… Researchers at the International Institute for Environment and Development reviewed several certification schemes in a study that … says Emma Blackmore. “Certification may therefore be a driver of rural differentiation which serves to improve the livelihoods and market … Sustainable markets …
News, 26 March 2012
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 15 A brief guide to the principles of PLA (I)
Publication, 01 January 1998
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Building Linkages for Livelihood Security in Chivi, Zimbabwe
Publication, 01 January 1997
This 500W solar system in a rural village in Uganda powers a home, a public broadcasting system, a barbershop and a video hall (Photo: SolarNow via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What is 'aggregation' and how can it get climate finance working for the most vulnerable?
… communities and businesses know what works and have ingenious and sustainable solutions for adapting to climate change. But they are … size. Getting projects delivered to “the last mile” in the poorest rural or complex urban areas can also be too expensive for private … competing with the public sector initiatives led by the multilateral development banks, who rather than 'crowding in' private finance, crowd …
Insight, 19 June 2018