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Hundreds of protesting young people march behind a sign saying "Global strike for climate change"
Q&A: CBA15 – is your climate innovation hot enough for the Dragons’ Den?
Article, 31 March 2021
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Communication practices and the struggles for housing justice: early reflections from São Paulo and Lagos
… proposes ways forward and key questions to advance a research agenda about grassroots communication practices and housing justice. …
Publication, 30 October 2024
IIED's Communications Learning Week participants (Photo: Anne Schulthess/IIED)
More haste less speed? Taking time to learn
… Another successful Communications Learning Week has taken place at IIED, with four days of mutual learning attended by IIED communications … meetings to discuss potential communication strategies and talk about training sessions, all of which has led me to reflect on how people learn. Of course, thinking about how people learn is a theoretical discipline in itself, and I …
Insight, 07 August 2018
Conversation between a woman with a notebook and a man, with trees in the background
The Nobel and poverty alleviation: "A slow deliberative process of discovery – no miracle cure"
… coming up to our 50th birthday – many of the things they have talked about resonate closely with our experience in tackling the poverty … Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 While the kind of research that we do in IIED does not focus on randomised control trials – we are mainly social … unusual recognition has caused me to pause for a moment and think about how our process of building an enabling environment, developing a …
Insight, 23 October 2019
The new landcam website
New 'Landcam' website launched
… IIED and partners have launched a new website to support the process of … It offers regular news updates for stakeholders, informing readers about land governance issues and sharing the latest research and good … rights, a key question in the land reform. Watch a video interview about LandCam below, or see it on IIED's YouTube channel . …
News, 01 May 2019
Two women sitting in a field
No room for manoeuvre: debt prevents investing in the future
… pigeon peas and tobacco for sale. The region is semi-arid, receiving about 1,000mm of rain per year, with most falling between November and … household members. We wanted to understand how they make choices about farming practices. We focused on differences in decision making … with women farmers about their priorities (Photo: Barbara Adolph, IIED)  Poorer households also struggle to balance their short-term needs …
Article, 26 April 2020
Three women, one wearing a mask, the other two smiling and clapping, sit at a raised desk in front of an audience
In or out! Why balanced panels matter
… In line with our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, IIED has published guidance on panel representation . And to those who … are informed by diverse views and experiences. So, what can you do about it? As researchers, we all have a responsibility to 'break the … accountability is important. For years, we have theorised about inequality and under-representation. And although organisations …
Insight, 29 April 2022
Three elephants eating
Critical theme: Can insurance promote human wildlife co-existence?
… has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. More information about a new date will be provided on this page when available. IIED will host a critical theme event to discuss whether insurance …
Event, 01 January 2021
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Strengthening women's voices in the context of agricultural investments: Lessons from Kenya
… under the International Institute for Environment and Development’s (IIED) ‘Gender, land and accountability in the context of agricultural … practice, and to inform practitioners, policy makers and researchers about key governance issues relevant to the strengthening of women’s … review by the Kenya Land Alliance (KLA) with additional inputs from IIED, and on a complementary primary field research.Conducted by KLA in …
Publication, 01 July 2016
New tool helps communities from Outer Hebrides to Southern Africa to adapt to climate change
News, 10 August 2022