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A girl in Pakistan collects rainwater for washing (Photo: Fawad Khan)
Recognising the concerns of women and girls can improve the effectiveness of climate change adaptation
Insight, 14 January 2015
The Bailique community, mainly artisanal fishermen and forest users near the Amazon River, have established the first community protocol in Brazil (Photo: Roberta Ramos)
Brazil's first community protocol: the Bailique experience
… land security, are guaranteed.   The third step involved explaining about access to genetic resources and traditional knowledge and the … or protect their natural resources if there is legal uncertainty about their land. For the Bailique community this became clear when they … the most from community protocols , Krystyna Swiderska (2012), IIED briefing paper PLA 65: Biodiversity and culture: exploring …
Insight, 25 August 2015
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Terroirs d’attache des pasteurs au Niger
… territories. Their associations will be involved in consultations about the draft Pastoral Code, which should be written over the next …
Publication, 01 January 2001
People gesture and point at a man with a microphone.
G8 summit: A revolutionary agenda
… the world.” Here, I look at tax and transparency, the latter of which IIED thinks is a critical step on the road to accountability. Tax … many of the big battles of the 21 st century may well be about the tools and tactics rather than any particular ideology. Amongst … Our research has made big contributions to policy debates about transparency and governance in land acquisitions and extractive …
Insight, 14 June 2013
Customers at a milk bar in Ndumbuini in Kabete, Nairobi. Research in Kenya has found that milk sold in this way had similar bacterial levels to those sold in formal markets (Photo: ILRI/Paul Karaimu)
What do street food, charcoal, gold, mobile phones and milk have in common?
… In Colombia, a country that's a big gold producer, IIED and the Alliance for Responsible Mining have found that 63 per cent … for International Cooperation , in 2010 estimated there are about 200,000 charcoal producers operating in Kenya, and that most of … by driving markets underground. Last week we held a workshop at IIED with participants from the ILRI, the Alternative Research Forum for …
Insight, 17 December 2014
A family at the border crossing between Serbia and Croatia. Some 650,000 migrants and refugees travelled through Croatia between September 2015 and January 2016 (Photo: Meabh Smith/Trócaire, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Responding to transit refugees in Croatia
… passing through Croatia from September 2015 to January 2016. An IIED-supported research project  has been looking at how local … mother and baby care, dignified shelter for longer stays). How to go about negotiating the rights of individuals was not always clear.  … in the cities and towns in Croatia will require structured thinking about the financial resources to support integration. Cities that share …
Insight, 19 August 2016
Women using hoes in a crop field in Kilosa, Tanzania.
Blog series probes principles: what works for women’s land rights?
… strengthen women’s land rights in practice. For the past six years, IIED has been working to promote gender equitable land governance in … are legally empowered . Often women (and men) have little information about their land rights in relation to national legal frameworks, and …
Insight, 15 October 2020
Community-based adaptation in Bangladesh. Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS
Developing nations put climate change adaptation at the centre of planning
News, 25 April 2013
The first photograph taken of Earthrise by Apollo 8 in December 1968. The Apollo Programme to Combat Climate Change proposes large-scale public investment and determined political effort from powerful states to take down carbon energy sources (Photo: NASA/woodleywonderworks, Flickr, via Creative Commons)
What should a no-carbon democracy look like?
Insight, 13 July 2015
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Applying Sustainable Development Criteria to CDM Projects: PCF Experience
… official view of any institution with which the author is associated. About the author Dr. Saleemul Huq prepared this note while PCFplus … International Institute for Environment and Development, London (www.iied.org, saleemul.huq@iied.org). PCFplus PCFplus is a research, training, and outreach program …
Publication, 01 January 2002