A number of IIED’s videos during 2025 were recordings of events, both webinars and in-person seminars and conferences, but ...

This case study shares the findings of research by the Non-Timber Forest Products — Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP) and Riak Bumi Foundation in Labian and Labian Ira’ang villages in Batang Lupar district ...

MVIWAARUSHA represents almost 12,500 smallholder farmers organised into 446 local groups. The network organises and supports ...

People from the Solomon Islands are experiencing profound loss and damage from climate change every day. Guest blogger Gladys Habu calls on the global community to recognise these losses, and act.

One of the areas most vulnerable to extreme climate events in Honduras is its capital Tegucigalpa. The lack of land-use plans, inadequate land management and property speculation have led to land ...

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 ...

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 ...

A majority of the world’s estimated cobalt reserves are in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 10-30% of its annual production mined artisanally (Photo: copyright AFREWATCH) As a critical component ...

The G20 is examining ways to improve the impact of the world's multilateral climate funds, aiming to make it easier for global South countries to access finance for climate action. Paul Mitchell and ...

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 ...

The world’s biggest capital cities have experienced a 52% increase in the number of days reaching 35°C over the past three decades, according to new analysis by IIED. It shows an overall rise in the ...

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 ...