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Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work to promote coastal resource management and conservation while ensuring social equity for coastal communities.

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Inclusive blue economy

A programme of work supporting resilient marine and coastal ecosystems and the millions of people who depend on them to thrive by aligning incentives with investments

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Professor Rashid Sumaila addresses interested marine specialists from research institutes, the private sector and international organisations at Fish Night 5 (Photo: Zaiza Khan/IIED)

Fish Night 5: How subsidies are not always beneficial equally to fish and people

Event on 17 October 2018

A shoal of muguraan circle above a bait net

First steps towards a global agreement

Insight, 21 September 2018

Shahajat Ali shows a newspaper article describing the incentive-based hilsa conservation programme under the Department of Fisheries (Photo: BCAS)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Bangladesh

Active Project

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

Article, 23 May 2018

A deep-sea fishing trawler

Helping the LDCs negotiate the high seas

Active Project

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

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

Insight, 23 January 2018

High-tech trawlers in the Faroe Islands. Ninety-five per cent of this tiny nation's exports is made up of fish (Photo: antonalfred, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Turning the tide: creating incentives for sustainable oceans

Insight, 17 January 2017

Fish Night 4 will hear from a record-breaking ocean skipper on her ocean experiences (Image: Nick Turner/IIED)

Fish Night 4: Governing our high seas. Why now?

Event on 01 December 2018

Protecting the world's oceans: three key tasks

News, 08 June 2016

An image of an artisanal fisher in Kiribati casting his net into the water; 90 per cent of all fishers are small-scale or artisanal (Photo: Quentin Hanich/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Towards an inclusive blue economy

Insight, 01 June 2016

An image of Mohammad Sayedul Haque, the Bangladesh Minister of Fisheries and Livestock alongside a table around which sit participants from Bangladesh, Myanmar and India as they discuss sustainable hilsa fishery management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)

Scientists call for international collaboration to safeguard hilsa fish stocks

News, 06 May 2016

Policymakers at a UN meeting in New York discuss how to end the legal 'no man's land' on 50 per cent of the Earth's surface (Photo by IISD/Francis Dejon)

Governing the ungoverned 50% of the planet

Insight, 11 April 2016

A hilsa, the national fish of Bangladesh. Inadequate government compensation during periods when fishing is banned has a harsh economic consequence for families (Photo: BBC World Service Bangladesh Boat, Creative Common, via Flickr)

Forced to sell the roof over their heads

Insight, 04 April 2016

A fishing vessel is dwarfed by a crude oil tanker in Singapore harbour, illustrating the impact oil prices have on sustainable fisheries (Photo: Andrew Thomas, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Plunging oil prices: what happens to our oceans?

Insight, 15 February 2016

Fishermen in Zanzibar, Tanzania (Photo: Yannick Beadoin)

Painting Africa's economy blue

Insight, 22 July 2015

Bowls full of hilsa placed on a table

Investing in hilsa fishery as economic infrastructure for Bangladesh

Archived Project

A boat near Fiji. Tourism and fishing are important industries for the Pacific nation of Fiji. Both of these economically important sectors depend on effective marine conservation (Photo: Sam Gao, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Ocean of bliss: rewriting the narrative

Insight, 08 June 2015

Madagascan fishermen set out for a day's fishing in traditional dugout canoes. Madagascar is implementing community-based management for some of its marine resources (Photo: Andreas Hafenscher, Creative Commons via Flickr)

World Oceans Day event will examine the potential of oceans and coasts

News, 21 May 2015

Fishermen from Mayadip Island, Bangladesh. IIED will be discussing Bangladesh's work on payments for sustainable fisheries at the EDD15 forum (Photo: Matthew Becker, the Advocacy Project, Creative Commons via Flickr)

IIED at European Development Days 2015

Event on 03 June 2015

Bangladeshi fishers with debts must repay loans even when fishing is banned, resulting in illegal fishing activities (Photo: John Pavelka, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Idris bhai, your voice has been heard!

Insight, 24 March 2015

Althelia Ecosphere's Simon Dent speaking at Fish Night 2 (Photo: Inta Photography)

Fish Night 2 looks at finance for sustainable fisheries

Event on 04 March 2015

Government officials and researchers discuss the future of hilsa management on 19 January (Photo: Essam Mohammed/IIED)

UK's Darwin Initiative funded project strives to reduce threats to hilsa fish

News, 19 January 2015

Fishermen hauling in nets near the Kenyan coastal town of Shimoni (Photo: Anna Kika via Flickr)

Can we save our fisheries with lessons from our forests?

Insight, 27 November 2014

Blue, rather than green, is the dominant colour of planet earth (Photo: Google licence)

Why do I see blue when everyone else sees green?

Insight, 01 October 2014

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