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Fishing the ocean

Long read

Action for an ocean for all

A typical milk bar in Kenya (Photo: Dave Elsworth/ILRI)

Project

MoreMilk – reviewing policy options for the informal dairy trade

Seedlings. Impact investing directs investment capital to enterprises delivering positive environmental and social impacts, and could play an important role in financing sustainable development (Photo: Geoff Maddock, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Blog

Business as usual – or business with purpose?

A stall-holder measures her produce in a marketplace (Photo: Hivos Bolivia)

Project

Sustainable diets for all

50% of the planet falls outside national boundaries. Ungoverned, these seas are exposed to widespread abuses such as overfishing or the dumping of chemical waste and plastic (Image: IIED/Soapbox)

News

IIED animation: how a new global treaty could turn the tide to save the high seas

Workshop participants undertake a participatory resource mapping exercise for community enterprises (Photo: Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources - ANSAB)

News

Forest and Farm Facility launches Phase II

Towards inclusive and responsible mining

Facilitating dialogue and collaboration for a fair and accountable mining sector More in this collection

Small-scale miners dry ores in the process of gold mining in Geita, Tanzania (Photo: John Louis/Investing In Gold, Creative Commons)

Project

Dialogues for a sustainable and productive artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector

Employees work deep within a tunnel at the Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village in Geita District, Tanzania in March 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

Project

Laying the foundations for a dialogue series on ASM

Working in shifts, an artisanal and small-scale miner in the Western region of Ghana relaxes at the top of a 15m mine shaft reinforced with a wooden 'cage' after several hours of digging (Photo: James McQuilken (@James_McQuilken/j.mcquilken@surrey.ac.uk))

Project

Ghana: on our way to participatory reform in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector

Publications

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Remote but productive: Practical lessons from productive uses of energy in Tanzania

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Moving More Money: Can aggregation catalyse off-grid financing?

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Sustainable Diets for All: Harnessing citizens’ voices for a diverse, healthy, fair and green food system

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Taking Stock: Indonesia Food Change Lab: Raising the profile of street food vendors as providers of healthy food for low-income consumers

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Taking Stock: Uganda Food Change Lab: Planning for a sustainable food system in the face of rapid urbanisation

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Taking Stock: Zambia Food Change Lab: Mobilising diverse actors to advocate for food diversity

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A timber market in Yaoundé

New director for IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group

News, Oct 2018

A man from Malawi holds cotton in his hands

IIED webinar: Incentive-based contract farming and agricultural commodities exchanges

News, Sep 2018

Plates of traditional Kabarole food

Creating knowledge and supporting action: citizen-generated evidence from food diaries in Uganda

Blog, Sep 2018

Workshop participants undertake a participatory resource mapping exercise for community enterprises (Photo: Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources - ANSAB)

Forest and Farm Facility launches Phase II

News, Jul 2018

Artisanal fishermen in the Philippines. In a nation made up of 7,100 islands, small-scale fishing provides livelihoods to hundreds of thousands of people. (Photo: Bernard Spragg. NZ, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: Revealing the value of small-scale fishing to national economies

Q&A, May 2018

Smallholder farmer with pumpkins she harvested in her maize field in Chongwe, Zambia (Photo: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

We need to safeguard biodiversity and promote diverse diets

Blog, May 2018

The Sustainable diets for all programme recognises that people – with their capacity to innovate and power to drive change – must be at the centre of efforts to reshape our failing food systems (Photo: © Mauricio Panozo of Lucano photography. Bolivia, La Paz)

How people are providing evidence, and influencing to get food policies that work for them

Blog, Apr 2018

IIED's third #shareASM digital day will take place on 15 March across the globe (Image: IIED)

IIED to host 3rd online artisanal and small-scale mining day

News, Mar 2018

Artisanal and small-scale mining stakeholders in Tanzania explore solutions to key challenges (Photo: Steve Aanu/IIED)

Using dialogue to extract sustainable solutions for artisanal and small-scale mining

Blog, Feb 2018

A small fishing boat off the Albanian coast (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)

Three things I learnt from a small-scale fisherman in Albania

Blog, Jan 2018

A photo of the Amazon rainforest, with water in the foreground. Sixty per cent of the rainforest, which covers 2,100,000 square miles, is located in Brazil (Photo: www.bbmexplorer.com, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Critical theme: lessons and ideas for sustainable development in the Amazon

Event, Oct 2017

A woman miner holds a rough red garnet found at a mine in Tanzania. Tanzania's artisanal and small-scale miners are fuelled by determination and the hope to strike it big (Photo: Magali Rochat)

Four lessons on communicating ASM stories of change

Blog, Oct 2017