As growing demand for ‘critical minerals’ and global geopolitical rivalries prompt new interest in transport infrastructure ...

A local government/grassroots federation partnership, combined with sweat equity, can be very effective at producing ...

The report examines the different institutions by which access to land and other resources are regulated and the interaction and areas of overlap between customary and state land management systems.

IIED worked with partners in China, India, Kenya and Peru to explore how the interlinked traditional knowledge, biodiversity, culture and landscapes – the biocultural heritage – of Indigenous Peoples ...

Around the world, people are experiencing the social and ecological consequences of economic transformations – from large-scale investments in agriculture, energy, mining, manufacturing and ...

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; ...

The updated biocultural heritage website explores the concept of biocultural heritage and its role in achieving multiple ...

David Satterthwaite examines global trends in the size, growth and distribution of the world’s urban population. He also considers climate change and COVID-19. The transition to a predominantly urban ...

A catalogue of community development laws related to the mining sector has been created featuring legislative arrangements from 54 countries. All legislation can be seen in an interactive map, while ...

This interactive data visual – now updated to cover all cities with 500,000-plus inhabitants – illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by the International Institute of ...

Annet Nakyeyune and Lilian Motaroki reflect on fostering equitable partnerships in practice, drawing on their experience in a ...

Evaluation processes will play a key role in national and global review systems for the Sustainable Development Goals. IIED and EVALSDGs are publishing a series of briefings about evaluation designed ...