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Two men pushing a boat filled with mangrove seedlings
Finding solutions in nature for climate change
Insight, 29 May 2020
Central Malawi: Belia Sikelo farms groundnuts using 'conservation agriculture', a set of practices including no-till farming, designed improve soil structure and help resist erosion. (Photo: T. Samson/CIMMYT)
2015: the International Year of Soils
… launching the Global Soil Partnership , which will facilitate knowledge exchanges on sustainable management and use of soil … and improve the fertility of their soil. In other areas of IIED work, traditional knowledge has often generated new techniques to improve soil fertility …
Article, 09 April 2015
We have in the past few years made progress on the theories and understanding of social learning approaches. But more research and real-life case studies are needed (Photo: Z Sewunet (ILRI)
Paving the way for social learning in the climate change context
Insight, 24 March 2014
A woman makes clothes for SOKO, a Kenyan textiles supplier that combines fashion manufacturing with bettering local livelihoods.
SOKO: Learning lessons on how to add value to the East African apparel sector
… corn and sugar cane, cotton, bamboo and Japanese paper) and local traditional sewing methods to make garments that retail at a cost in line with other designer products. This IIED briefing paper, Knowledge networks: Adding value to the East African apparel sector , … and fashion gave her the wealth of connections needed and the innate knowledge and understanding of what is needed to make a good fashion …
Insight, 11 February 2013
Communities call for access to genetic diversity to combat poverty and climate change
… In many parts of the world, much of the genetic diversity in crops, traditional medicines and other species has been lost. But for … and others have been collecting genetic resources and related knowledge from communities that openly share their resources. Many … of origin to provide an incentive for conservation." "Restoring traditional crops, medicinal plants and other forms of genetic diversity …
News, 21 January 2008
Farmers looking at plants
Nature 4 Development – introducing IIED’s new 2020 initiative
… policy work on biodiversity-based agriculture, including agroecology, traditional crop varieties, indigenous biodiversity knowledge and seed diversity. Beyond agrobiodiversity, Tearfund has a …
Insight, 29 January 2020
The Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation secures houses, sanitation and land rights for members. Communication and participation are central to the way it works (Photo: Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Creative Commons via Flickr)
Do you have the power to influence your own life?
… – we need everyone to be involved, everyone to share their knowledge and experience, to reflect on past actions and change … In IIED we prioritise partnership. We see our role as bringing local knowledge into global perspectives. We understand agency and document … welcome your engagement through comments on our webpage. Sharing knowledge and learning Through my work with the Climate Change …
Insight, 06 March 2015
People walk past ruined buildings
Haiti earthquake 10 years on – a new chapter in disaster response
… the eyes of many humanitarian actors to the limitations of their traditional modes of response and brought them into closer collaboration … authorities need to have greater involvement given their experience, knowledge and connection to local people. Old habits die hard, and …
Insight, 12 January 2020
The Sundarbans mangrove forest (dark green on the image) is a fragile ecosystem threatened by rising levels of salinity (Photo: European Space Agency)
Making ecosystems resilient through Bangladesh's Delta Plan
… and international plant scientists to integrate local ecosystem knowledge into adaptation plans in the Potato Park, increasing plant diversity and using traditional knowledge to manage water resources. Mainstreaming ecosystem-based …
Insight, 12 June 2017
A researcher speaks to a cotton farmer in Mozambique.
Our research: striving towards excellence
… through some of the issues raised in this paper. Going beyond traditional metrics The resulting paper is not intended to be … sustainable development policy. The paper goes beyond promoting traditional academic measures of excellent research, which have tended … this field should: require meaningful engagement with a community of knowledge and practice (including an appropriate review process) provide …
Insight, 13 September 2012