As growing demand for ‘critical minerals’ and global geopolitical rivalries prompt new interest in transport infrastructure ...

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

Many barriers prevent smallholder farmers from restoring their backyard gardens and broader forest and farm landscapes.

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

A local government/grassroots federation partnership, combined with sweat equity, can be very effective at producing ...

This paper calls for a transformative approach to energy planning and delivery that focuses on a more holistic and ...

As world leaders prepare to gather for major summits on biodiversity and climate change – COP16 in Colombia and COP29 in Azerbaijan – Indigenous Peoples and local communities are calling for greater ...

IIED worked with partners in China, India, Kenya and Peru to explore how the interlinked traditional knowledge, biodiversity, culture and landscapes – the biocultural heritage – of Indigenous Peoples ...

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 Lima’s informal settlements, ollas comunes – community-led soup kitchens – are reviving strong traditions of self-organised crisis response and resilience among the urban poor.

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 ...