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A Nepalese man carrying a large sack on his back walks up some steps with the Himalayas soaring behind.
Nepal: Vice-President and top singer launch report that signals steps to sustainable development
… by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Kathmandu-based Asian Centre for Environment Management … in the new constitution of Nepal. “The evidence presented by IIED and AEMS in this extremely valuable report makes a compelling case … main protected areas and conservation areas in Nepal to learn lessons about the environmental, social and economic impacts of the varying …
News, 14 May 2012
Matoke sellers in Uganda. Photo: Bill Vorley
Small producer agency in the globalised market
Project, 14 May 2013
People sit on wall facing a woman distributing water
Working with informality for more resilient, equitable responses to COVID-19
… COVID-19: grassroots visions of change This article is part of a new IIED series that brings together forward-looking responses on specific … responses along the following lines, particularly as we learn more about transmission.  Working with the informal sector to promote tenure …
Article, 10 July 2020
Nepalese women carry wood harvested sustainably from a forest. Forests cover nearly half of Nepal (Photo: Bikas Rauniar/Department for International Development, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
REDD+ in Paris – what could be in it for people and forests?
… to help lead to reduced emissions from forest loss or degradation. IIED is organising a two-day event in Paris with partners to reflect on … be or do, on what it can or cannot achieve. There will be discussions about how the processes can be simplified and made more effective, how … gap. Read the full agenda . Isilda Nhantumbo (isilda.nhantumbo@iied.org) is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . The …
Insight, 27 November 2015
Cover for G02837.pdf
Web 2.0 tools to promote social networking for the Forest Connect alliance (PLA 59)
… for members to quickly and easily access and share information about state-of-the-art practice in small and medium-sized forest … Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside and Giacomo Rambaldi. Published by IIED and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation …
Publication, 01 June 2009
Cover for G02845.pdf
Web 2.0 tools for development: simple tools for smart people (PLA 59)
… Ethan Zuckerman writes about the use of 'simple tools for smart people'. Zuckerman examines how … Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside and Giacomo Rambaldi. Published by IIED and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation …
Publication, 01 June 2009
Brazil ambassador Carlos Sobral Duarte addresses a meeting to define the key elements of a draft treaty to govern the high seas (Photo: IISD/ENB | Franz Dejon)
Moving a step closer to protecting the high seas
Insight, 02 August 2017
About 1.5 million Syrians are currently in Lebanon. The influx has added complexity to an already fragile system of water provision (Photo: Loan Diep)
Water in MENA: ripple effects in times of conflict
… faced sudden increases in demand. A joint research programme  by IIED, UNICEF MENA  and Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)  has … the primary water providers in some cities.  Too little is understood about their provision mechanisms. They have helped entire populations to … provision during conflicts in MENA was a joint initiative between IIED, through the Urban Crises Learning Fund , WSUP and UNICEF . Results …
Insight, 12 December 2017
Despite the importance of the agriculture sector in Ethiopia, access to credit is limited (Photo: Morgana Wingard/USAID, Flickr via Creative Commons)
Farming impacts in sub-Saharan Africa
… commercialisation. The paper identifies agreements and contestations about the implications of agrarian change for social relations, … with mobile phones and ICT. The series has been commissioned by IIED, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Institute of …
News, 23 April 2015
More people, more trees
… people, more trees . This is the name of a new video, part-funded by IIED, which shows two decades of progress in addressing soil erosion in … systems. I had recently set up the Drylands programme here at IIED, and was working in partnership with Oxfam’s then-newly established … By following a participatory approach, in which people learn together about better ways to care for their soils, much has been achieved. Many …
Insight, 29 October 2010