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REDD+: a win-win deal is possible!
… reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, sustainable forest management, conservation and enhancement of carbon … are needed to support investment in comprehensive and integrated land use planning processes and sectoral policy coordination. These processes …
Insight, 17 November 2011
People sat around a table looking at a poster.
Q&A: Communities combating illegal wildlife trade in East Africa
… IIED, the IUCN East and Southern Africa Regional Office  and the IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group . Here, Olivia Wilson-Holt talks to … with communities. MK: In Kenya, 75% of wildlife is found on community land outside of formally protected areas. This means it is essential …
Article, 17 December 2020
Watch the Karachi Rising film
The houses that Karachi's poor want
… violence, crime and killings," says Farhan Anwar, Project Director of Sustainable Initiatives, in the film. The state owns considerable plots of vacant land within the city centre. Thirteen different land management … in the city and the government's anti-poor bias in its policies and planning, it seems unlikely. Karachi's urban poor would be astonished, …
Insight, 23 April 2014
An orange sky
How can we avoid another ‘lost decade’ in the climate fight?
Insight, 06 January 2020
Aerial view of informal housing.
Data to drive informal settlement upgrading. Who generates it – and who owns it?
… her or his country is doing regarding the UN’s water and sanitation Sustainable Development Goal (SDG6) . Equally, international agencies do … is often to address a particular local need – such as slum upgrading, land tenure, access to state entitlements (including pandemic-related … to do, and local government ‘asks’. This sort of data gathering and use is not unusual. What is unusual is that it’s designed and undertaken …
Insight, 03 March 2022
In Kebkabiya, North Darfur, the NGO Practical Action has been helping communities prevent conflict between farmers and pastoralists by encouraging the construction and rehabilitation of watering points (Photo: Margaret Gardner, Practical Action)
Conflict resolution: a key part of adaptation in North Darfur
… development agencies and short-term projects – what is needed is sustainable, local institutions that can monitor, adjust and enhance … for and conflict over natural resources, particularly water and land. The ability of communities to resolve these conflicts, so they can … a fair, environmentally conscious and sustainable approach to the use and management of natural resources. The organisations are also now …
Insight, 23 April 2015
Meceburi Forest, Mozambique: a young woman harvests casava (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?
… attended an unusually lively conference on tropical forests and sustainable development at Yale University  exploring how different … solely on the market. Initiatives like these speak to SDG 15 (Life on Land) – the one SDG that explicitly covers forests, and as such should … clean energy' (Goal 7) means extracting ourselves from fossil fuel use – decarbonising power systems at massive scale. The International …
Insight, 11 February 2016
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
… World Bank and other development institutions starting to establish Sustainable Development units, and at grassroots level, NGOs … wanted to show many of the positive stories around local action and land rights in these extensive dryland regions.  I had been working in … collecting household data on livelihoods, assets, climate, land use, water and livestock. This research became my PhD thesis, published …
Insight, 22 June 2015
Top blogs of 2018
Best of 2018: blogs
… 1 Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018 January: Our most read blog last … (NCA) is a way of assessing income and costs associated with the use of natural resources. Rosalind Goodrich reported on an international … the revised water masterplan in Botswana, forest policy in the UK, land use planning in Rwanda, for example. 8 How tackling climate change …
Article, 27 December 2018
Biomass energy: optimising its contribution to poverty reduction and ecosystem services
… 22% in non-OECD countries). As a major and increasing component of land use, biomass energy systems therefore have significant impacts on both … of forest ecosystem services to poor people's livelihoods and sustainable growth processes in the context of environmental and climate …
Project, 21 January 2011