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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Energy solutions for wellbeing: galvanising collective action to transform energy services in informal settlements and camps ...

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 ...

This report provides a collection and analysis of six case studies which introduce trailblazing shared label initiatives by smallholder organisations across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Each case ...

The indigenous farmers of the Potato Park in Cusco, Peru, produce goods drawn from their collective traditional knowledge, biodiversity and fundamental ties to the land: their ‘biocultural heritage’.