Prompted by recognition by UN-Habitat, David Satterthwaite distils five key points from his research work over the years – all of which are testament to the knowledge and experiences of local people ...

The traditional knowledge and innovations of Indigenous Peoples and local communities – including philosophies for living in ...

IIED Europe is recruiting a senior project manager for an immediate start, working in the Netherlands. IIED Europe is hiring ...

The 2024 event will be organised in partnership by the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCCC), the International ...

Major fashion companies and government agencies need to boost support for India's small-scale cotton farmers as they battle ...

Smallholder farmers around the world are highly productive, producing around a third of the food consumed globally on only ...

The link between increasingly severe climate events and the rising suicide rate among India’s farmers has long been a concern. But with the latest national data reporting the highest ever number of ...

Rather than looking separately at urban and rural areas and what matters to each of them, it is vital to look at the linkages between them: it is from here that lasting change will come. Ejura Market ...

More than 650k Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since August 2017, fleeing persecution in Myanmar, more than half of them women and girls (Photo: UN Women, via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The ...

The Natural Resources research group works to support and shape fairer, more sustainable governance of natural resources by generating the evidence needed to improve key policies, institutions and ...

Sudan is typical of other least developed countries in Africa in being highly vulnerable to climate change and climate variability. The interaction of multiple stresses—endemic~poverty, ecosystem ...

Helping the millions of poor people at greatest risk from climate change to adapt to its impacts is a daunting task. One new approach that deserves greater support is community-based adaptation (CBA).