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Aerial view of informal settlement
Reducing urban poverty – lessons not learnt?
… This is the latest in a  series of blogs and interviews , curated by IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite, examining different aspects of … demands – and capacities to act. A fresh lens can bring clarity about the different deprivations that make up poverty and who is …
Insight, 10 August 2021
Road to recovery: mapping a sustainable economy
… An IIED advocacy paper, commissioned by the Commonwealth Foundation , … put. Challenging, particularly in the way it makes us think about the value, rather than the indeterminate status of the informal …
News, 07 December 2009
Introducing improved climbing bean varieties in Rwanda has transformed beans from a subsistence crop into a cash crop (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Flickr)
How are Rwanda, Ethiopia and Bangladesh preparing for climate change?
Insight, 24 November 2014
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Building resilience to environmental change by transforming gender relations
… a forward-looking action research agenda. Gender equality is not just about women, but about inequalities that cut across social, economic and cultural systems …
Publication, 01 May 2014
Peruvian men and women on a mountainside, pouring water on the earth
Learning to value Mother Earth
… below came from a series of 'wisdom dialogues' that were part of an IIED project in Peru . Farmers from the Quechua and Aymara communities … during the IIED project to encourage community members to “dream”: about how they saw food production and agricultural research in the … Chambi, 63, who has been a farmer all his life, spoke at the meeting about his 'dream' of greater collaboration and dialogue between the …
Article, 02 June 2013
Field visit as part of the Mountain Ecosystem-based Adaptation project, Mount Elgon, Uganda (IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Uganda
Project, 15 February 2018
Just how inclusive is ‘inclusive business’?
… About the series: Making markets work for small-scale farmers? The … producers remains open for debate. Discussion at the latest of the IIED-Hivos ‘provocations’ in Brussels last week (22 June) suggests that … at the Brussels provocation felt that real inclusiveness is about enabling smallholders to make their own choices and tackle their …
Article, 27 June 2011
A woman carries a Nile perch landed at Got Kachola, Kenya, where the NGO Renewable World is establishing community-run energy hubs for fish chilling and other local energy needs (Photo: Sarah Best/IIED)
Four challenges to powering local economies
… to overcome barriers such as a gap in skills or financial resources. IIED's global research and collaboration with Hivos under the Energy … development services. This can range from local people learning about new tools for productive use – such as drip irrigation techniques … livelihoods in poor, rural communities. Sarah Best (sarah.best@iied.org) is a senior researcher working on energy in IIED's Shaping …
Insight, 12 September 2016
Q&A: climate negotiations
… 8 dark years of the Bush regime, where they were in practical denial about the problem, refusing to take any action, the new President and … the US and the Chinese presidents where the two will hopefully talk about climate change and come up with some agreed outcomes between … countries and LDCs have been exposed to the climate change issue. IIED’s media programme together with Panos and Internews have been doing …
Article, 17 March 2009
Cambodia's rural population is heavily reliant on small-scale rice production. The Clean Sugar Campaign campaigns against large-scale plantations that push smallholders off their land (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Holding actors in agricultural investment chains to account
… abuses. When negative impacts occur, communities are often unclear about whom to hold accountable or how to do this.  Identifying pressure … from Inclusive Development International (IDI) , who co-authored IIED's ' Following the money' guide , explained how this process had … chains: lessons from practical experience', can viewed below and on IIED's SlideShare site . Also available on Slideshare is a presentation …
Insight, 22 October 2015