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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
… city of Gorakhpur has created strong pressure to convert agricultural land. Land is wanted for industrial, residential and commercial use, as well as for infrastructure development.   Much of this land-use …
Insight, 09 June 2015
Cambodia's rural population is heavily reliant on small-scale rice production. The Clean Sugar Campaign campaigns against large-scale plantations that push smallholders off their land (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Holding actors in agricultural investment chains to account
… How can local communities protect their rights when their land and livelihoods are affected by large agricultural investment … communities, but may also have damaging impacts, such as loss of land, loss of livelihoods or human rights abuses. When negative impacts … with Bonsucro , the multi-stakeholder organisation that promotes sustainable sugar cane They filed a complaint with the Thailand Human …
Insight, 22 October 2015
A woman stands with three goats in shadow amid a dusty terrain
Introduction to drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity
Article, 17 December 2012
Villagers dig out a silted up water tank, paid for by India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Photo: Mackay Savage, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Finding solutions for less poverty and better ecosystems
… The newly-agreed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)  set ambitious targets for … needs a new approach. Could this be opportunity to transform how we use economic instruments to effectively address both poverty and … of the science, policymakers have found that investing in land activities can have positive effects on ecosystem services. But PES …
Insight, 15 December 2015
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Overview of Human-Wildlife Conflict in Cameroon
… livestock into their own hands. The tools used by communities are not sustainable and need to be complemented by effective policy, including … enhancing the legal framework and putting in place appropriate land use planning approaches. Failure to do this will increase HWC, …
Publication, 01 February 2012
Image of a solar panel, with light glinting off it.
Green growth and equity must go hand in hand
… growth models are risky – external interests have been acquiring land and natural resources on the basis of the rapid gains in GDP they … limits. The OECD report is helpful – although its continued use of the ‘green growth’ label, and its voluminous nature, may prove to … will issue guidance for self-directed national dialogue, analysis and planning processes based on lessons from the ten dialogues we have …
Insight, 13 June 2013
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 … governments in Kenya, Tanzania, Mali and Senegal to improve climate planning. This year has seen increasing buy-in to our approach from … seeks to  achieve increased investment in locally controlled land and natural resources . Large-scale agricultural investments can …
Page, 27 October 2017
Lushoto, Tanzania: Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into agroforestry. Here a tree nursery group discusses the challenges and opportunities (Photo: P Kimeli/CCAFS)
Look beyond the trees: the SDGs will have to do more than just 'protect forests'
… community grapples with finalising a set of targets, called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be achieved by 2030. The UN … priority conditions: Equitable rights to control, own and access land, property and natural resources Inclusive decision-making processes … and food systems, and integrated water management Negotiated land use planning Broader measures of progress beyond Gross Domestic Product …
Insight, 04 November 2014
Two women carrying farming tools
IIED's best of 2019: videos
… climate funding to drive local-level action, holistic climate change planning from the local to the national level, and ensuring climate … how women in Senegal, Ghana and Tanzania are protecting their land rights that included six videos to help give a more human and … society to discuss how to develop a marine economy that is fair and sustainable. The two-day 'Towards an inclusive blue economy' event was …
Insight, 06 January 2020
Evelyne Flora Latabu shaking a bowl of grains.
The Ugandan diet: food voices and choices
… and traditional foods. A photographic exhibition curated by the Sustainable Diets for All programme explored the Ugandan diet through … in the price of agricultural produce and barriers in accessing land, capital and quality farm inputs such as seeds and pesticides, … pests and diseases, and prolonged drought. As I don’t want to use any chemical pesticides, I’m planning to make my own pesticides from …
Insight, 24 October 2019