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

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

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

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

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 ...

These impact stories show how livelihoods have been improved and landscapes become more climate-resilient. Women of the Yiaku Laikipiak Trust singing (Photo: Risper Ogusini/Yiaku Laikipiak Trust) The ...

Ahead of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17) in October, we urge all Parties to recognise Indigenous and traditional territories (ITTs), embrace ...

Extreme heat could be costing Indian workers the equivalent of 2% of their country’s GDP every year, according to new IIED research. A survey of informal workers in sectors such as construction and ...

World Bank meeting with Youth Climate Ambassadors at COP30 (Photo: Connect4Climate,via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Scientists agree that climate change is the gravest and most urgent crisis we face.

"Forced evictions, wherever they happen, are a serious violation of human rights, destroying people’s lives and livelihoods and disrupting whole communities." These are Lorena Zarate’s opening words, ...

When cities get hot, the most vulnerable communities are hit hardest: people living in informal settlements must endure the heat in overcrowded, poorly built houses, often on low-lying land with few ...