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Aerial natural landscape.
From New Zealand to Africa: managing land use trade-offs
Insight, 04 March 2022
Cover for G03804.pdf
Making change happen: what can governments do to strengthen forest producer organizations?
Publication, 01 July 2014
The field team designing a REDD strategy talk to farmer Nimale Maribu Saidi as part of their field research in Meceburi Forest Reserve, Mozambique .Photo by Mike Goldwater
Inclusive environmental investments
… emissions from forested lands and invest in low-carbon paths to sustainable development. REDD+ goes beyond deforestation and forest degradation, and includes the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon … exist to enable this to happen . Based on this analysis, what are the key issues arising from this engagement? We are also looking at the …
Project, 07 September 2013
Citizens reframing conservation policies and practice for food and livelihood security, environmental sustainability and justice
Article, 15 July 2009
A pot with bubbling food sits cooking on an open fire.
Sustainable energy: can a new initiative succeed where Rio+20 failed?
… people who don't currently have it. Energy for all Step forward Sustainable Energy For All (SE4ALL) — led by UN secretary-general Ban … 2014. In a Rio+20 briefing session Ban Ki-moon announced: “Achieving sustainable energy for all is not only possible, but necessary — it is … in many pro-poor energy delivery models. Participation is key Finally, SE4ALL and the programmes and it implements needs to be …
Insight, 25 June 2012
Fishermen hauling in nets near the Kenyan coastal town of Shimoni (Photo: Anna Kika via Flickr)
Can we save our fisheries with lessons from our forests?
… tools needed to rebuild depleted fish stocks and manage them for a sustainable future. But when new fishing rules are introduced, fishers … incentive, not necessarily monetary, perhaps the short-term cost of sustainable fishing behaviour can be reduced or mitigated. In … conditional on specific behaviour or additional outcomes – the key principles in PES. Too much time spent debating the definitional …
Insight, 27 November 2014
A cook serves up the daily soup at the Achumani market in La Paz (Photo: Mauricio Panoso)
IIED and partners urge citizen involvement in international food policy debate
… The 2nd Global Conference of the Sustainable Food Systems Programme  takes place in Costa Rica from 5-7 … ' – multi-stakeholder dialogues for innovation.   Guarin says the key to transforming food systems lies with the vendors, producers, cooks … system, presenting joint IIED-Hivos work with women cooks in informal markets in La Paz 6 February: Hivos advocacy officer Nout van der Vaart …
News, 05 February 2019
Book urges new development agenda for small-scale farming
… published today (29 November) — shows how mainstream efforts to make markets work for poor farmers can fail to operate in tune with the ways such farmers themselves try to make their markets work. "Contrary to the prevailing narrative, and what NGOs, … structures, culture and traditions. The book draws attention to a key issue: the fact that fewer young people will want to farm tomorrow. …
News, 29 November 2012
People wearing traditional clothing sit in a circle in a field.
Why traditional knowledge and Indigenous Peoples’ rights must be integrated across the new global biodiversity targets
… whether Indigenous worldviews and cultural values promote or hinder sustainable and equitable development. The findings show that the Global … matriarchal societies. In Lares, women oversee traditional barter markets which integrate nature, economy and nutrition . Where cultural … in harmony with nature. Download ' Indigenous knowledge and values: key for nature conservation ' The study discussed in this blog is part …
Insight, 16 August 2021
Many flags
IIED and partner events at COP25
Event, 02 December 2019