Kenya's pastoralist communities are particularly vulnerable to land dispossession because for decades, they didn't have formal recognition of their customary land rights and their territories remained ...

Afro-descendant and Indigenous women in Colombia’s rural areas are responding to land dispossession, conflict and environmental degradation by defending their territories and their culture.

Under this pilot project, IIED is working towards strengthening low-income countries’ engagement in international dialogues on trade, climate and economic development. As global momentum builds toward ...

Amid intensifying climate disasters, seismic geopolitical shifts and persistent barriers to participation, COP30 represents a critical moment for climate and nature. The need to mobilise finance, ...

Agroforestry mixes trees and other woody plants together with crops and livestock. By doing so, it diversifies what is cultivated, multiplies economic options, increases land productivity, ...

Livestock groups, such as the Central Dairy Cooperative Association Limited Nepal (CDCAN) or the Federation of Central Livestock Fishery Cooperative (FELIFICON) are finding that tree fodders increase ...

This is the second insight in a series examining the world’s multilateral climate funds, and looks at measures taken by two of the biggest funds to support locally led adaptation.

We estimate flows of climate finance targeting the local level and those that are specifically locally led over the past eight years. While there has been a jump in reported funding for locally-led ...

Overall “local”, “community” and related terms were mentioned in transactions representing only 29% of reported climate finance. A mere 24.6% of funding to cut greenhouse gas emissions appeared to ...

Through this collaboration with the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) Women’s Caucus, we seek to address these gaps by supporting women’s organisations to generate their own evidence, tell ...

The first part of D&C Days 2025 on Thursday, 30 October, was a day of online dialogue, interaction, difficult conversations and solution-focused sessions. The event brought together 370 grassroots ...

The Global South House is hosting a range of events at COP30 in Brazil and providing a space to connect and build synergies. IIED will participate as a knowledge partner of the Global South House ...