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More than 90 per cent of Malawians rely on rain-fed subsistence farming to survive. Increasingly variable weather patterns are reducing crop yields and eroding food security (Photo: ILRI/Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: We must ensure Paris delivers on finance
… have been invited to contribute as much as they can to funds formed under the convention including the Adaptation Fund. Some countries have … GEF meeting (the Global Environment Facility (GEF) is entrusted under the UNFCCC convention to operate the LDCF), we had two … but we have be mindful that in Paris we are looking at negotiations under the Climate Change Convention which puts an obligation on …
Article, 24 November 2015
Cover for G03065.pdf
The Right to Food and Access to Natural Resources
… the right to food is particularly acute. IIED worked on this report under its Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 January 2008
Cover for 17066IIED.pdf
Conservation and human rights: the need for international standards
… – such as evictions and lost access to natural resources – are now under particular scrutiny, and concern is rising over the human rights …
Publication, 01 May 2010
Cover for 9505IIED.pdf
From colonisation to consultation: Regulating use of a pastoral zone in Samorogouan, Burkina Faso
… Are natural resources in the Sahel under threat? There is widespread concern that current management …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Annual Report 2011/12: A lifetime of learning
… coined the term ‘sustainable development’ during the early 1970s. Under her visionary guidance, IIED was one of the first organisations to …
Page, 30 October 2012
Cover for G03225.pdf
Talking REDD+: beyond forestry – joining up and moving forward
Publication, 01 December 2011
Example of Volanta pump in use - note pump parts external to mounting - Niger
Global Water Initiative: Niger
… of 10,000 hectares of new irrigated land GWI focus dam: Kandadji (under construction), with the objective of developing irrigation over … only now starting to grow again. Kandadji dam Kandadji dam (currently under construction) is at the heart of government plans to irrigate the … by the High Commission for the Niger Valley (HCAVN), a public body under the President's Office, and subsequently by the Kandadji Dam …
Project, 16 February 2018
Assessing preferences for compensation packages using the discrete choice method: the case of the Bolsa Floresta program in Amazonas, Brazil
… stated that they would like to see an increase in benefits that fall under the Bolsa Floresta Social category. …
Publication, 01 December 2013
Two women holding jars of quinoa
Nature 4 Development: improving evidence and dialogue on biodiversity and development
… what kinds of interventions deliver what kinds of outcomes, and under what conditions. We will be looking for evidence on impacts on …
Project, 06 May 2020
A photo of a woman.
Protecting Indigenous lands: lessons from Chile
… territory, mining wetlands and lagoons that should be protected areas under national law.  The Kinross Company, a Canadian gold mining firm, … (FPIC) in the context of Kinross’s mining operations, as required under the Indigenous and Tribal People’s Convention of the International …
Article, 17 November 2020