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A tea picker from Cianten, within the boundaries of Mount Halimun Salak National Park in West Java, starts collecting tea leaves in a basket at 6am (Photo@ CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Harnessing #MeToo momentum to drive climate action
… Director-General of the World Health Organization, gave the 2018 Barbara Ward Lecture . The lectures honour IIED's founder and celebrate outstanding …
Insight, 09 April 2018
In Tanzania, former artisanal mining licensees Mwanahamisi Mzalendo and Mwanamkasi Rasi are among entreprenurial women who have pooled their resources to create a quarrying business. They control the day-to-day running of the quarry, including supervising labourers, dealing with the local authorities, and taking care of the site's environmental footprint (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)
Q&A: Women are driving the change we need
… is also a member of IIED's Board of Trustees and delivered the 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture, when she called for a "new paradigm" for African development . …
Article, 08 March 2018
The Swiss ski resort of Davos, which hosts the World Economic Forum (Photo: swiss-image.ch/Michael Buholzer, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The glass is half full: in 2015 we need to demand that our leaders deliver
… growth. But Fatima Denton ( last year's guest speaker at our 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture and an IIED board member) believes that this growth is not only …
Insight, 21 January 2015