This insight shares reflections on how the notion of ‘living heritage’ can serve as common ground for rethinking ...

One of the most crucial outcomes of green transitions is reducing or eliminating the risk of agrochemical poisoning for ...

CBA19 offered important insights and innovative solutions on how locally-led action can help urban spaces not only adapt to ...

IIED is also inviting diverse, non-academic inputs in the form of briefings, debate-shaping editorials, case studies from ...

Many barriers prevent smallholder farmers from restoring their backyard gardens and broader forest and farm landscapes. Farmers lack many things: secure tenure, knowledge about what crops, trees and ...

What homes are within reach for those on low incomes? The detailed project summarised here seeks to answer that question by delving into the options available to potential house self-builders, buyers ...

Conservationists are increasingly seeing the importance of carrying out social impact evaluation to ensure accountability and to learn what works for both biodiversity and human wellbeing.

Communities at the frontline of climate change impacts such as floods, droughts and other extreme weather events have critical knowledge on how best to cope, and what is needed to enable this climate ...

Costa Rica’s Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) programme has become something of an icon in the world of PES. Its hitches and successes provide a valuable source of information and inspiration ...

In the first of a new blog series, IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite looks at the world’s 100 largest cities, and how their changing distribution reflects social, political and economic shifts ...