In 2025, IIED is actively engaging with partners at key global events – including the Finance in Common Summit, World Bank ...

In 2009, the Malian government handed out a large area of land for an irrigated sugarcane plantation. Hundreds of farmers ...

Each year, the community-based adaptation conference brings together practitioners, grassroots representatives, government ...

Communities at the frontline of climate change impacts such as floods, droughts and other extreme weather events have critical knowledge on how best to cope, and what is needed to enable this climate ...

In rural Africa, ‘water poverty’ can destroy lives and livelihoods. Children under the age of five are especially susceptible to waterborne diseases. While a broken waterpipe in London may be a ...

There is an emerging consensus that urbanisation is critically important to international development, but considerable confusion over what urbanisation actually is, whether it is accelerating or ...

Society’s poorest, most marginalised and excluded people have little say on the triple crisis of climate change, nature’s degradation and poverty; yet they are most affected by it. Climate finance is ...

The 30-year anniversary of the Beijing Declaration was celebrated last month during the 69th session of the Commission on the ...

This collection of stories shows how, with the right approaches, IIED and partners are making a positive difference to those on the frontline of complex and interlinking global crises. The facts are ...

Special economic zones (SEZs) have spread rapidly over the past 20 years, including in many low- and middle-income countries keen to attract private investment for industrial development. But while ...

Much of India’s future urbanisation will be the result of migration from rural areas and small cities and towns. These urban migrants are often invisible, voiceless and powerless. This working paper ...