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Timbuktu, Mali: A woman pours water from an irrigation canal onto her garden. Mali's climate-resilient agricultural plan will promote better irrigation systems (Photo: Marco Dormino/MINUSMA)
Least developed country leaders say "follow us" to tackle climate change
… to address climate change, with many of these linked to national development plans. Here is an overview of some of the most ambitious … energy, increasing energy-efficiency and promoting low-carbon urbanisation. It aims to do this by creating an environment that … improving land and coastal ecosystem biodiversity, and promoting sustainable waste management. Planting forests to capture carbon …
Insight, 06 October 2014
A woman serving food at a street stall
Common cause with people in the food systems of the majority
… of growing recognition that we’re way off course to meet the second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) – to end hunger, improve nutrition and green … food systems, of the majority poor? A new report  from the IIED-Hivos Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) programme urges caution before …
Insight, 22 June 2020
2009 Development and Climate Days film festival highlights
Article, 22 July 2010
Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity
Article, 18 October 2018
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Sustaining Livelihoods Across the Rural-urban Divide: Changes and challenges facing the Beja Pastoralists of North-eastern Sudan
Publication, 01 January 2002
As a mountainous country, Bhutan faces particular environmental challenges (Photo: Göran Höglund, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: A pragmatic approach
… Bhutan has had a head start when it comes to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with sustainable development one of the four … on issues that had previously not been on Bhutan's radar, such as urbanisation. "Urbanisation is a reality, and none of us can deny …
Article, 27 July 2016
We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
… Fighting for the future – sustainable development and the battle for ideas in 2017 January: IIED's director, … the world would be able to sustain its hard-fought momentum on sustainable development .  Norton highlighted issues requiring …
Article, 22 December 2017
The case study for Manizales, in Colombia, in a new book edited by IIED's David Satterthwaite focuses on innovative community-oriented environmental policy and a commitment to disaster risk reduction (Photo: Melissa Delzio, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can we transform our cities?
… of the discussions on implementing, financing and monitoring the new development agenda, described in the Sustainable Development Goals, focus on the role of national governments and …
Insight, 19 April 2016
Two women throwing fishing nets at a lake
Critical themes at IIED
… finance accelerate universal energy access? In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 – universal energy access – by 2030, the … Innovation Studies in Beijing. 2017 October: Lessons and ideas for sustainable development in the Amazon Virgilio Viana, general director …
Article, 05 March 2021
A conservation agriculture demonstration at the Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust, Zambia. Conservation agriculture can increase productivity and improve soil structure (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture
… services and promoting social equality, lies at the heart of sustainable development.  IIED's research in sub-Saharan Africa  has shown that … the complex factors (e.g. climate change, population growth and urbanisation) that affect agriculture and land use change. It also helps …
Project, 10 August 2017