As the ongoing crisis in #Gaza unfolds, there are continued barriers to the supply & delivery of #HumanitarianAssistance. 📚Read our resource collection on relevant emerging #SocialScience evidence, past social science research & notes from the field👇socialscienceinaction.org/emergency/gaza…

Realising the transformative power of development research - great piece on principles and challenges for research funders by outgoing SCOR Board Chair Marie Staunton. Excited now to pick these up as interim Chair. UKCDR

“Beyond the serious financial costs of the FCDO merger...it also cost the UK its reputation for excellence in international development...." @mleach_ids responds to todays National Audit Office report on the @FCDOGovuk merge ids.ac.uk/news/developme…

My decade as Institute of Development Studies Director ends in just two weeks - an amazing period. Everyone warmly welcome to join this final event, which I hope will be both celebratory and forward -looking. Thanks to everyone for friendship, partnership, support!

The first of two blogs in this last fortnight of my long time Institute of Development Studies. It will be super-hard to leave, but I'm excited to be starting as Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative CCI in June

Excited to be starting as Executive Director, Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) - amazing partnership of NGOs and researchers working together for people and nature. Thanks to Institute of Development Studies for 34 incredible years and a decade as Director - keep up the great work.

Great to co-host this panel on the opportunities for a step-change for people and nature #COP16Colombia. There’s hope amidst crisis, but action and equity are vital.

📢Announcing the #FossilFuels & #FoodSystems webinar! As #COP29 #climate talks approach Lili Fuhr Errol Schweizer Nnimmo unpack policy pathways to reduce fossil fuel dependence throughout the food chain. 📅4 Nov 🕑2pm UTC w TABLE Global Alliance for the Future of Food ipes-food.org/fossil-fuels-a…

“Restoration is a vital paradigm.... It embodies ideas about hope and the future. We can repair past damages and build landscapes that work for people and all forms of life.” Read more of CCI leader Melissa Leach vision in this Cambridge University feature: lnkd.in/eK3rsJdW

Excited to be at #COP16 with Cambridge Conservation Initiative partners, promoting vital themes for people and nature - around evidence, equity, economy, climate, and hope.

At #COP16Cololombia the spectre of Green grabbing haunts the new nature and biodiversity finance rush. Our IPES-Food report and briefing explain why - and what can be done.

It was great to be part of this Wilton Park conference; now at #COP16Cali looking forward to launching and discussing the principles for equitable, inclusive biodiversity action and funding, a big theme for Cambridge Conservation Initiative

#COP16Cali Biodiversity and Health day: great session on integrating sustainable wildlife management into one health, with Cambridge Conservation Initiative partners.

Great #COP16 event on Gola Rainforest with Cambridge Conservation Initiative partner RSPB and Sierra Leone and Liberia leads. Flagship community-engaged conservation project; carbon finance model raises economic and governance challenges.

Birdlife International CEO Martin Harper has just facilitated a #COP16 sharing of 12 inspiring transformational initiatives to deliver the Global Biodiversity Framework. Stories of collaboration, innovation, hope - several involving Cambridge Conservation Initiative partners.

Stirring opening to #COP16Colombia Nature and Culture Summit - CBD President Susana Mohamed calls out colonially-derived power schemes that suppress biological and cultural diversity: calls for transformation to peace with nature inspired by indigenous knowledge and values

At #COP16 forum on target 18. Key nature positive potentials of sustainable agriculture and agroecology; need to repurpose subsidies away from harmful industrial agriculture and align land policies. Much interest in our IPES-Food briefings.

U.K. Minister Mary Creagh opens #COP16Cololombia event on Principles for Inclusive, Gender-responsive and Locally-led Biodiversity Action. Great to have been part of the multi-stakeholder process that developed these - now let’s work together to implement them.

#COP16 its Restoration Day, high-level dialogues highlight key importance of land enrichment to biodiversity and climate stabilisation, synergies underlined in the ‘Rio Trio’ of global conventions, all requiring local inclusion. Cambridge Conservation Initiative

Our condolences to his family, friends and the Pastoralists community.