International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
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| Contact details | IIED Head Office 3 Endsleigh Street, London, England WC1H 0DD Phone: +44 (0) 20 7388 2117 Fax: +44 (0)20 7388 2826 E-mail: info@iied.org |
| Type of organisation | Environment-Development Institution |
| Organisation's interest | Conservation Development |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Learning Group member? | Yes |
Description
The coordinator of the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group, IIED is an international policy research institute and non governmental body working for more sustainable and equitable global development. IIED has five broad areas of work:
- Natural Resources – sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, drylands and forestry
- Climate Change - mitigation, adaptation and vulnerability
- Human Settlements – urban poverty, urban environment, rural-urban links
- Sustainable Markets – environment economics, corporate responsibility, regoverning markets, trade
- Governance – law, planning, global governance.
Projects
1. Sustaining Local Food Systems, Agricultural Biodiversity and Livelihoods: This research aims to analyse how and under what conditions can decentralised governance, farmer participation and capacity building promote the adaptive management of agricultural biodiversity in the context of local food systems and livelihoods.
2. Pro-Poor Tourism: IIED has worked on pro-poor tourism since 1999. Pro-poor tourism focuses on changing the distribution of benefits to increase the share captured by poor people (www.propoortourism.org.uk).
3. Forest Governance Learning Group: The forest governance learning group works in Africa and Asia to exchange learning and develop ideas on forest governance - and helps to make them work for practical, just and sustainable forest use.
4. Protecting Traditional Knowledge: Participatory research with indigenous communities in areas of important forest and agro-biodiversity is being used to strengthen resource management and rights locally and to inform the development of appropriate policy to protect traditional knowledge at national and international levels.
Traditional Knowledge and Trade Promotion in Peru : The key objective of this project is to take the first step toward a longer-term goal of providing information to relevant stakeholders on the impacts that the US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement will have on the livelihoods of poor farmers and indigenous people in Peru, and facilitating a public policy debate on these potential impacts.
Conservation and Human Rights: IIED is working with consultant Nick Winer to facilitate discussions between international conservation NGOs on the potential for developing a human rights charter for conservation NGOs.
Geographic coverage
Africa
Americas
Asia
People
Dilys Roe, Senior Research Associate, Agriculture and Biodiversity
Phone: +44 20 7388 2117
E-mail: dilys.roe@iied.org
Web URL
http://www.iied.org
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