In IIED’s 'Make Change Happen' podcasts, our researchers and guests discuss key global development challenges and explain ...

This study, which describes how residents in three of the city’s informal settlements are responding to climate-related ...

Governments are often seeking responsible investments for sustainable outcomes. Land-based investments are governed by a ...

Land-based investments are governed by a tangled web of domestic and international rules that overlap with one another. This ...

This rapid urban expansion has exacerbated environmental vulnerabilities, such as flooding, landslides and extreme heat. This ...

The market, realising the demand for cheap, low-income housing near the city centre, found ways to cater to this demand. Old ...

Conflict between people and wildlife has long been a challenge both for the wellbeing of local communities and for the ...

IIED, the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre, Justice & Empowerment Initiatives, Instituto Equicidades and the Federal ...

How is racial desegregation going in South Africa’s largest city? Guest blogger Owen Crankshaw reveals unexpected findings which challenge some commonly-held views. Many scholars and commentators ...

The biocredit market directs finance to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity, which when designed correctly can benefit and empower Indigenous Peoples and local communities, a group which ...

Women group in a farmer field school in Barbardiya Municipality, Nepal, preparing homemade botanical pesticide (Photo: copyright Pratik Adhikari/LI-BIRD) Around the world, deepening humanitarian ...