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O.K, The Data's Lousy, But It's All We've Got (Being a Critique of Conventional Methods)
… official statistics are the only means through which one can learn about the rural poor and their interaction with the environments they …
Publication, 01 January 1993
Gastro(eco)nomic revolution in Peru
… with some Indian, African and Latin American colleagues of a Hivos-IIED Programme on Small-scale farmers and Globalization and we were all … tank to get your breath back.” But it raises some interesting issues about the responsibilities chefs and cooks hold within the countries …
Insight, 16 October 2011
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PLA Notes 23 Section on Participatory Approaches to HIV/AIDS Programmes
… from a PRA training of NGO field staff in Nepal. An article about storytelling during a PRA training course in Cameroon. A paper …
Publication, 01 June 1995
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RRA Notes 16: Applications for Health
Publication, 01 July 1992
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Distributional effects of environmental tax reform, The
… In recent years there has been increased debate about the potential for shifting the incidence of the tax system away …
Publication, 01 January 1998
A man points his finger at someone in a meeting room at a debate at a meeting on the sustainable development of the Amazon at Rio+20.
Five things we’ve learnt from Rio+20
… a Copenhagen-style collapse and allowed leaders to talk glibly about the successful outcome. But the Rio+20 agreement is of little … effects of a green economy approach were discussed in detail at IIED’s Fair Ideas conference prior to Rio+20. One of the conference’s …
Insight, 03 July 2012
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest - lush green landscape with river running through it.
Locally-controlled sustainable forestry in Brazil faces uphill struggle
… Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . He will be speaking at IIED’s Fair Ideas conference in this session: Locally controlled … the Fair Ideas session (English) Resumo da sessão (português) Read about the Poço de Carbono Juruena project Endnote: Until 2010, The …
Insight, 13 June 2012
REDD: Protecting climate, forests and livelihoods
… from deforestation and degradation' — could offer a way forward, as IIED's growing body of REDD research and reports reflects. What is REDD? … to cut carbon dioxide emissions. There are concerns, too, about the negative impacts REDD payments might have on forest-dependent …
Article, 14 May 2009
Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change: What role for Official Development Assistance?
… programmes or projects, with the aim of identifying how concerns about climate change can be combined with an agency’s development … the relevant institutions. However, while there is a lot of rhetoric about integrating adaptation into development, there is very little … Funds and Development Assistance: Some Frequently Asked Questions. IIED Sustainable Development Briefing paper. November 2008. Ayers, J. …
Article, 14 November 2008