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This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
2014: the International Year of Family Farming
… land based resources. Smallholder and family farms play a key role in urban as well as rural markets, and our work on Regoverning Markets …
Article, 22 April 2014
Bangladeshi climate negotiator Qazi K Ahmad
Q&A: World leaders must abandon their narrow political interests to deliver the best deal at COP21
Article, 24 November 2015
Mobile phones being sold in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Access to information and new technologies will be key to help delivering transformational change to the world's poorest countries (Photo: ConDev Center, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Painting a new picture of development
… on the challenges of water and sanitation, of disability and of urban growth – which are often ignored, or not addressed by politicians. …
News, 17 June 2016
Cover for G01553.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Editorial
… special issues on Methodological innovation training, livestock and urban areas. This issue includes a variety of newly emerging Creativity, …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… economy: lessons from Ethiopia’s progressive climate policy’ . 6 Urban transformation and the politics of shelter: understanding … access to adequate shelter and basic services for the most vulnerable urban residents. More about this work: From October 2017 to February … in Kenya to documenting health and climate risks for informal urban workers in India and Zimbabwe, and from working to grow networks …
Article, 23 December 2020
An orange sky
How can we avoid another ‘lost decade’ in the climate fight?
Insight, 06 January 2020
Woman selling vegetables
Agricultural contracts and farmer agency: a shift in perspective
… regardless of how well producers negotiate. Social differentiation matters too. For instance, patriarchal practices can restrict women’s … in local market committees, establishing cooperatives to sell in urban markets and developing supply agreements with trusted small-scale …
Insight, 16 May 2021
The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
… finance flows for decentralised energy access in Tanzania National urban policy for better urban growth Pavilion session Date: Friday, 10 November Partner … practice. Download the programme (PDF) . Delivering Money Where It Matters: effective climate action through predictable local climate …
Event, 06 November 2017
A new map produced by IIED shows seven types of innovative governance. Click on the image to see the map (Image: IIED)
Driving change by supporting action at the local level
Insight, 24 November 2015
An image showing a group photo of CBA10 field trip group posing for a photo on a rooftop at the end of a long day during which the delegates made visits to four separate projects in Dhaka where communities are adapting to climate change (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
CBA10 field trips: adaptation in practice
Insight, 27 April 2016