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The Multidimensional Poverty Index only has one indicator to assess housing quality – whether floors are made of dirt, sand or dung. So these houses in Manila would not be classified as sub-standard (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
The Multidimensional Poverty Index: Another underestimate of urban poverty
Insight, 18 June 2014
Representatives of communities from Peru, Bhutan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea have formed an International network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (Photo: Lhab Tshering)
Indigenous mountain communities call on governments to support traditional knowledge-based adaptation
News, 18 June 2014
While one of the objectives of the 2014 World Day to Combat Desertification is to strengthen the visibility of the drylands on the international environmental agenda, much more is needed (Photo: Marie Monimart)
Celebrating the drylands
Insight, 17 June 2014
Community reblocking to improve settlement design and the quality of the neighbourhood in Namibia (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Namibia shows how to support low cost housing
Insight, 13 June 2014
People need at least US$50 to survive for a month in Hanoi. This is twice the official urban poverty line (Photo via Commons Wikimedia/Google licence)
If we don't count the poor, the poor don't count
Insight, 12 June 2014
Fishermen along the Meghna Rover (Photo: Essam Mohammed/IIED)
Want to know how to save a fish species? Ask a fisher
Insight, 08 June 2014
A house on the island of Padma Pakur is submerged by the rising waters (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)
Building climate change resilience in South Asia
Project, 06 June 2014
Pa Ousman Jarju has written an open letter to US President Barack Obama (Photo: Steve Jurvetson via http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
Letter to America: Gambia envoy asks Obama directly for US climate leadership
News, 06 June 2014
LDCs can use the example of Brazil, which has achieved a drastic fall in emissions thanks to avoided deforestation, to see what is possible despite limited economic capacity. Pictured is deforestation for the use of clay in Rio de Janeiro (Photo via Wikipedia Commons)
Climate action: Diplomats' discussions yield four themes for 2014
Insight, 04 June 2014
A family in Dadaab gathers sticks and branches for firewood and to make a shelter, while carcasses of animals that have perished in the drought are strewn across the desert (Photo: Andy Hall/Oxfam via Wikipedia Commons)
Urgent action needed says leader of the Least Developed Countries Group
News, 04 June 2014