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NGOs: friend or foe to markets for the poor?
… The latest ‘provocation’ seminar from IIED and Hivos, held in Paris last week (30 March), began by asking who … or shea butter, which only impact a very small number of producers. IIED researcher Lila Buckley spoke about working with a Chinese NGO to build market chains and support …
Insight, 06 April 2011
Participants at the CGIAR Climate Social Learning evidence gathering workshop, including IIED director of communications Liz Carlile (standing) (Photo: CCAFS)
Which factors are key for successful social learning?
Insight, 14 July 2014
Women farmers sorting their carrot harvest in Karnal District in the Indian state of Haryana (Photo: Nirmal Sigtia, IWMI/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Women in rural India are nature’s guardians
… an abundance of knowledge at their disposal, women are more cautious about introducing new methods or processes that threaten the … culture. Interview conducted by  Teresa Corcoran  (teresa.corcoran@iied.org), communications content officer,  IIED's Communications Group . …
Article, 30 October 2018
A rubber boat carrying around 50 refugees arrives from Bodrum, Turkey to the Greek island of Kos (Photo: Christopher Jahn/IFRC, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
In this war of words, no one is the victor
… the big development issues. This month the global community is about to sign up to the Sustainable Development Goals which suggest we … and in the future. I hope we take it. Andrew Norton (andrew.norton@iied.org) is director of IIED. …
Insight, 04 September 2015
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MDG survey results 1 Millennium Development Goals: survey results
Publication, 01 January 1970
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Loss and damage: from the global to the local
… adaptation support better, providing policymakers with signals about the limits to adaptation and involving communities in …
Publication, 01 November 2013
West African farmers heard at UK Houses of Parliament
… juries, carried out previously in West Africa and facilitated by IIED researchers and partners, have revealed that much African … the House of Lords. In this case, he wanted to know what they thought about labour-saving technology. Key points that farmers raised during … right of food, who chaired the workshop in Accra, Ghana, commended IIED on its: “Bottom up ” approach to agricultural research which was a …
Insight, 04 February 2012
Fair trade: still centred on smallholders?
… farmers? This was the question posed at the latest in a series of IIED and Hivos ‘provocations’ held at the European Parliament in … said Preza. The room generally agreed that fair trade can’t just be about certification or about getting a fair price. It must include other elements that build …
Insight, 27 June 2011
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Locally managed funds: a route to pro-poor urban development
… support for local funds into their aid programmes. Find out more about our work on the Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015 …
Publication, 01 May 2013
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Institutional challenges for peri-urban water supply in Can Tho, Vietnam
… an area of over 1,000 km2, much of which remains agricultural land. About two-thirds of the city’s population is located in the built-up …
Publication, 01 November 2015