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Turn REDD on its head
… government, control, say opinion leaders from ten countries in the IIED-facilitated Forest Governance Learning Group. Argument about REDD (reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) … of REDD. We came to talk with the Madjajane and Goba communities about their forests and then continued to debate and plan our future …
Insight, 14 December 2010
Farmers sort tomatoes in Ethiopia.
How small-scale farmers make markets work for them
… the ways small-scale farmers try to make their markets work for them? IIED and Hivos set out to investigate through a Knowledge Programme that … shines light on how small-scale farmers are making their choices — about how to modernise appropriately, and about balancing costs, risks, benefits and uncertainties. In other …
Insight, 28 November 2012
The voices of women involved in farming and fisheries, such as these in Bangladesh, are often lost in decision-making (Photo: CBFM-Fem Com Bangladesh/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Does gender balance improve forestry and fishery management?
… way that these resources are managed. Yet women are often forgotten about, and their voices are not always heard in decision-making. That is why IIED has been working with partners to systematically map how gender … A systematic map can assist us to do this. Mapping the evidence IIED has teamed up with the  Center for International Forestry Research …
Insight, 02 July 2015
Group meeting on climate change on boat run by Shidhulai. Natore, Bangladesh. Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS
Empowering communities to adapt to climate change
Article, 17 December 2012
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… out a 'new urban agenda' for our increasingly urban world. Last week, IIED launched the excellent new issue of Environment & Urbanization … which they depend.  Housing is an important example: this isn't just about a place for women and their children to stay, but also about safety, security of tenure and the potential to use that space to …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Pits at Bekily sapphire mine in Toliara are on average 18 meters deep (Photo: Andry Rabemanantsoa/GIZ PAGE Madagascar)
Improving governance in Madagascar's artisanal and small-scale mining sector from the ground up
… Laying the foundations for dialogue IIED is working in a number of countries to convene multi-stakeholder … driven processes are already under way in Ghana and Tanzania . More about IIED's ASM dialogues: Blog:  Dialogue and action in equal measure , by …
Project, 08 March 2017
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Raising the profile of Gender and Generation: The role of the Climate Change Media Partnership
Publication, 01 February 2011
The rice fields on outskirts of the city of Bandung, Java, Indonesia: urban areas often have damaging impacts on the areas around them (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
New publication looks at environmental impacts of urban areas
… pollution and environmental management', summarises what is known about the environmental impacts of urban areas – with a particular focus … website . The author, David Satterthwaite, is senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements Group and a leading expert on poverty reduction … become among the world's healthiest places to live and work." More about David Satterthwaite's work: Satterthwaite was a co-ordinating lead …
News, 16 March 2015
Workers at the Dakete Gold Mine explain health and safety procedures in a powdering station. The IIED dialogue aimed to engage key stakeholders, including mineworkers, in a conversation about the future of ASM mining in Ghana (Photo: Friends of the Nation)
Dialogue prompts participatory reform in Ghana's artisanal and small-scale mining sector
… by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), in collaboration with Ghanaian NGO Friends of the Nation .  While … all-systems response looking at how we develop knowledge and policy about ASM, as well as the institutions that underpin the sector. But … Steve Bass, the dialogues' global convenor and a senior associate at IIED. "Our dialogues have been informed by in-country research that …
News, 14 September 2016
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Farmer-herder conflict in sub-Saharan Africa?
… ‘farmer-herder’ conflict is overly simplistic, and makes assumption about causality which have no foundation. We then identify examples of …
Publication, 01 October 2020