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Shift power to people to preserve natural world, urges report
… key to their lives and livelihoods." Historically, biodiversity was under various forms of community management but today rules devised and …
News, 08 October 2008
Forest farmer representatives from eight Southeast Asian countries exchange experiences with one of the branches of Tree Bank Foundation in Central Thailand (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
In the king's wake
… and Cooperatives copied the Tree Bank Foundation's model. The bank (under the same name, Tree Bank) offers loans to farmers, where trees are …
Insight, 20 December 2016
Achala C Abeysinghe (second left) recently spoke on a panel discussion at COP23 on Women Leading the World's Climate Agenda (Photo: Anne Schulthess/IIED)
COP23 outcomes call for faster action and higher ambition to keep Paris on track
… the framework for transparent reporting and reviewing climate action under the agreement. However, other areas made little headway, including …
Insight, 21 November 2017
Farmer stands in her field of groundnuts boarded by maize in Malawi
Democratising food and agricultural research
… and environments . What IIED did Several projects were carried out under an international action-research initiative, 'Democratising the …
Project, 17 August 2012
Brazil's favelas are a legacy of a more passive resistance reflecting an unwillingness to plan for anticipated population growth (Photo: Chris Jones, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Exploring inclusive urbanisation and other migration crises
… cities are a legacy of how urbanisation was actively discouraged under apartheid, while Brazil's favelas are a legacy of a more passive …
Insight, 28 October 2015
World leaders who sought the advice of IIED founder, who would have been 100 on 23 May 2014, included two US presidents, and several UK prime ministers and heads of state from Africa and Asia
100 years of Barbara Ward: IIED founder and champion of sustainable development
… with Ward and has also been interviewed about his recollections . "Under her guidance, IIED became one of the first organisations to make …
Article, 23 May 2014
David Arach presented Namati's approach to community land protection, focusing on the key stage of community by-laws drafting, in the IIED webinar (Image: David Arach)
Using community by‑laws to protect indigenous and rural land rights
… peoples and local communities while other estimates show that under customary systems, communities and indigenous people hold as much …
Insight, 01 December 2016
Testing the water in Kenya's Tana River watershed. The river's ecosystem is being affected by a range of factors. Public and private organisations are exploring ways to improve ecosystem management (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
'Sustainable development science' for transforming our world
… and institutional change that can achieve even more than is possible under current rules and governance . Looking back to help us move …
Insight, 09 October 2015
PLA 42: Children's Participation - Evaluating Effectiveness
PLA 42: Children's Participation - Evaluating Effectiveness
… a partnership between children and adults. This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 30 September 2001
Achala Abeysinghe advises Giza Gaspar-Martins, the former chair of the Least Developed Countries Group, in Paris at COP21 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Women in the poorest countries lack leadership opportunities in the UN
Insight, 12 November 2016