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Cooperative members at the Federation of Cooperatives of the Verapaces nursery in Cobán, Guatemala operate a compost packing machine. FEDECOVERA oversees the production of cardamom, allspice, coffee, tea, cocoa, essential oils, grains and vegetables (Photo: Juan José Ochaeta/FEDECOVERA)
IIED marks international forests day with major new research report and toolkit
… Forest business incubation is a process that accelerates the development of successful, sustainable forest businesses that serve both people and forests. … the Paris Agreement, strengthening forest economies, increasing rural incomes and improving climate resilience. Peter de Marsh, chair of …
News, 21 March 2018
Langrug informal settlement, South Africa, May 2014 (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Introduction to urban poverty
… urban poverty, and to change misleading views about urbanisation and rural change. Drawing on the knowledge and practical experience of our … over the next five years we will: Help to ensure that the post-2015 sustainable development agenda  (replacing the Millennium Development Goals) pays …
Project, 09 September 2014
Matoke sellers in Uganda. Photo: Bill Vorley
Small producer agency in the globalised market
… under the spotlight as part of the answer to creating a more sustainable food future. Some of the challenges facing small-scale … small-scale producers in an era of globalisation and big changes in rural areas, and to provide new insights that can help in designing … assumptions, impacts, benefits and risks of approaches taken by the development community to ‘make markets work’ for small-scale farmers. …
Project, 14 May 2013
A Subanen harvest dance during a colourful street dancing competition of Kinabayo Festival. Community action by the Subanen tribe in Midsalip prevents mining companies from encroaching their land (Photo: Mark Navales/Google Licence)
Citizen power: Sustaining paralegal programmes to put knowledge back into communities' hands
… natural resources is increasing pressures on land for millions of rural citizens, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Yet rural communities equipped with legal knowledge and skills …
Insight, 14 October 2014
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
… investments in low and middle-income countries. Urbanisation, rural–urban migration and urban poverty Rural-urban migration continues … change on Least Developed Countries: are the SDGs possible? The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the United Nations' development agenda …
Article, 31 December 2015
A group of women in a forest smile as they hold out handfuls of coffee beans
Producer agency and voice in certification schemes
… it will be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals . Additional resources: Watch a recording of the … Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) programme. EPIC aims to empower rural producers and wider communities to influence public decisions and …
Insight, 26 March 2021
Annual report 2006/07
… climate lens on Latin America:  with over 20 fellow environment and development NGOs in the Up in Smoke coalition, IIED launched a climate … forged mutually beneficial relationships that substantially boosted rural development. Sustainable markets Boosting awareness of Africa’s greener bean:  IIED’s …
Page, 16 April 2008
An elephant feeds on Acacia trees in Kenya's Ol Kinyei Conservancy. The privately managed conservancy offers employment and training to local communities (Photo: Stuart Price/Make it Kenya Photo, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Turn up the volume: community voices on illegal wildlife trade
… as a serious crime, strengthening law enforcement, and supporting sustainable livelihoods and economic development. Countries that have participated in the IWT conferences … in wildlife law and in Namibia they are integral to the country’s rural development strategy. Elsewhere, however, community rights to use …
Insight, 31 October 2018
A proper technological integration would make feasible the implementation of more micro-grids such as this one, pictured, on Chile's border with Bolivia (Photo: Boris Lopicich)
What will speed up the micro-grid revolution?
… Access to energy in remote rural zones has not been an easy task for local governments to address. … and stand-alone systems mean these regions can now be reached and the Sustainable Energy For All goals achieved; but to be effective, policies … Congress of Chile, and managing director at the NGO Innovation, Development and Equity. …
Insight, 24 November 2015
A new map produced by IIED shows seven types of innovative governance. Click on the image to see the map (Image: IIED)
Driving change by supporting action at the local level
… their collective political will to chart a course to a fairer, more sustainable world. In September, representatives from the 193 countries … (UN) came together in New York to agree a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to guide the international development agenda … or district levels ; or by creating funds from which urban and rural poor can draw directly Addressing underlying variables, including …
Insight, 24 November 2015