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IIED director Camilla Toulmin gave a lecture at the University of Sussex on 23 October (Photo: Chatham House)
Toulmin lecture: How can the Least Developed Countries be heard?
Event, 23 October 2014
Images such as this of a culvert constructed to allow villagers to cross the River Mahenya in Kenya, but which proves insufficient at times of extreme rainfall, are often used to tell the story of climate change in Africa. But Fatima Denton will challenge that narrative in her Barbara Ward Lecture (Photo: Robin Wyatt, http://www.robinwyatt.org/photography/)
Room for optimism on Africa, the "hopeful" continent
Insight, 21 October 2014
A farmer's house and sugar cane field in Cambodia, where there is concern about large-scale investment in sugar plantations driving local people off the land (Photo: Brian Hoffman, via Creative Commons)
Human rights should be at the heart of investment policy making
Insight, 20 October 2014
IIED's expenditure increased from £7.6 million in 2005/06 to £19.4 million in 2013/14. IIED helps give local savers, such as these in Cochabamba, Bolivia, a global voice (Photo: Shack Dwellers International via Creative Commons 2.0)
Financial summary 2014
Page, 20 October 2014
"Paz" (peace) graffiti in Medellín, Colombia. The text to the right translates as "Mural in tribute to our victims of conflict" (Photo: Cathy McIlwaine)
New approach paves way to manage violence in cities in the global South
News, 15 October 2014
A farmer near Bagré dam in Burkina Faso dries paddy rice (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Seven papers unpick debates on African agriculture and rural development
Insight, 15 October 2014
A Subanen harvest dance during a colourful street dancing competition of Kinabayo Festival. Community action by the Subanen tribe in Midsalip prevents mining companies from encroaching their land (Photo: Mark Navales/Google Licence)
Citizen power: Sustaining paralegal programmes to put knowledge back into communities' hands
Insight, 14 October 2014
A sign protesting against development
Understanding growing pressures on land: 'land grabbing' and beyond
Project, 13 October 2014
Hama Arba Diallo (Photo: Global Water Partnership)
Hama Arba Diallo: the universal man
Insight, 10 October 2014
An orangutan swinging between trees
Addressing the interplay between agribusiness investments and ape conservation
Project, 10 October 2014