Rain is not expected in Bolivia’s Chiquitano dry forest in September. Yet on day one of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) ...

IIED is working with Cities Alliance, SDI Kenya and Muungano wa Wanavijiji Federation to tackle rising extreme heat in ...

Biocultural economies generate income from products and services that are derived from both biodiversity and traditional ...

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 ...

As the dust settles after COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, IIED’s executive director Tom Mitchell reflects on a ‘squandered opportunity’ to address the climate emergency and calls for reform of the COP ...

This paper attempts to analyse the efficiency and effectiveness of the various social protection delivery mechanisms with reference to climate resilience, and also examines the sufficiency of social ...

Articulating the role of law for a just transition in 2023 and beyond A series of insights that explores ways to navigate law, economies and justice in times of transition The richness and power of ...

Equitable governance has become a central objective of global conservation policy, with frameworks such as the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ...

Agrobiodiversity (or agricultural biodiversity) underpins food security, nutritional health, livelihood resilience, ecosystem ...

The Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN) project (co-led by IIED) and the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) in South Africa have published a new guide to help local governments ...

David Satterthwaite examines global trends in the size, growth and distribution of the world’s urban population. He also considers climate change and COVID-19. The transition to a predominantly urban ...