The Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN) project is providing demand-led, responsive technical support to ...

CBA19 hosted communities from diverse regions and landscapes. Their local knowledge and experience were fundamental in ...

The Hub for Housing Justice is a collaborative initiative led by a group of civil society networks and research organisations ...

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 ...

The first UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) was held in 2021 in New York at the UN General Assembly. Its vision was to “launch ...

Lorenzo Cotula, who joined IIED in 2002, leads research and policy work on the place of law in strategies to promote fair, sustainable economies – cutting across land and natural resource governance; ...

Using legal tools and participatory approaches, we work to strengthen land rights for local people to improve their livelihoods and get a better deal from incoming investors ...

The Natural Resources research group works to support and shape fairer, more sustainable governance of natural resources by generating the evidence needed to improve key policies, institutions and ...

This paper argues that migration is better defined as an adaptive response to socio-economic, cultural, political and environmental transformations, in most instances closely linked to the need to ...

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.

Working with partner organisations around the world on renegotiating the law to promote fairer, more sustainable economies ...

David Satterthwaite is a senior associate with IIED and visiting professor at the Development Planning Unit, University College London. Two recent books co-authored with Diana Mitlin were Urban ...