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

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 ...

Least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of ...

A resident of Moroto District expresses her views on the relevance of Community Development Agreements Community in an outreach session by ANARDE in Karamoja region (Photo: ANARDE) Between 2021 and ...

From new ways to speed up the application process, to more and better ways to access finance, to key changes in personnel, Clara Gallagher and Sejal Patel scan the horizon for developments within ...

The 20th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA20) will take place from 11-14 May 2026 in Manila, Philippines. The CBA conference series aims to bring together a ...

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 ...

Sapphires from the island of Madagascar, ranked among Earth's top ten most ecologically diverse countries, wow the world's top traders and jewellers. The nation is one of the world's biggest sapphire ...

Western economics is not only destroying the environment. It is also destroying Indigenous peoples’ holistic development models that ensure balance with nature, and provide alternative paradigms for ...

Twenty years ago Costa Rica began to pioneer schemes that paid land owners to protect forests in return for the benefits they provide, such as conserving wild species, regulating river flows and ...

Least developed countries, Small Island Developing States and other vulnerable countries are experiencing spiralling climate impacts and wrestling with debt distress that leaves them unable to build ...