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An Ethiopian government delegation learns about energy innovations in a climate smart village in Kenya. Ethiopia's government hopes to combine climate resilience with economic growth (Photo: CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What's happening to aid to the Least Developed Countries?
… countries to the LDCs dropped from just over US$45bn in 2013 to just under $41bn in 2014 ( see table 31 ). The proportion of total OECD aid … This is almost all counted as aid (Official Development Assistance) under DAC rules. For climate change mitigation a case can always be made …
Insight, 18 January 2016
Smiling women gather in front of a climate change conference sign and give a thumbs up
Supporting more than equal numbers in international climate debates
… greater impact. Helping to forge equality at the climate negotiations Under the European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi) , IIED trains …
Insight, 08 March 2020
Cover for 17507IIED.pdf
Investment contracts and sustainable development: How to make contracts for fairer and more sustainable natural resource investments
… to sustainable development. This report has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 March 2010
Tree branch stuck in the sea.
Listen to young people: cultural practices can provide answers to the climate problem
Insight, 26 September 2021
Cover for G03152.pdf
Urbanization and its implications for food and farming
… emission-intensive. But hundreds of millions of urban dwellers suffer under-nutrition. So the key issues with regard to agriculture and …
Publication, 01 September 2010
'Land grabbing' in the shadow of the law in Africa
… 30 national land laws,  concludes that people’s weak land rights under national law make them vulnerable to dispossession. This … Cameroon . Universal rights but different rules Where legal avenues under national law are limited, villagers may seek redress through … international law does not fill gaps in compensation requirements under national law. And only one African country has ratified …
Insight, 13 October 2011
Cutting down trees, especially for livestock grazing, can lead to soil erosion, as seen on this hillside outside Addis Ababa (Photo: Aaron Minnick/World Resources Institute, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Shaping the future of forest and farm landscapes in Africa
… land is already being used by smallholder farmers or by pastoralists under customary tenure arrangements. Other areas are only marginally … People Partnership (SNAPP) . Through a working group format, partners under SNAPP will work across different sectors to understand and …
Insight, 21 August 2017
Cover for 17010IIED.pdf
Payments for watershed services: opportunities and realities
… impact. An alternative is to create incentives for sound management – under mechanisms known as payments for ecosystem services. It is a …
Publication, 01 August 2007
Cover for 11054IIED.pdf
Climate change and forest resilience
… ecosystems. But it is clear that biodiverse forest ecosystems are under threat. And the threat extends beyond forests themselves. An …
Publication, 01 October 2006
Cover for G03585.pdf
South-South REDD: A Brazil–Mozambique initiative for zero deforestation with pan-African relevance
… initiative together with MICOA. The aim was to create the conditions under which Mozambique is able to embark on the implementation of REDD+. …
Publication, 01 May 2013