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Women doing maintenance work on a fish sanctuary in Bangladesh (Photo: Paul Thompson/Challenge Program on Water and Food, Creative Commons via Flickr)
1st International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA1)
Article, 07 April 2016
Water with open sewage is stagnant in a built up area
Planning for reality in one of Nairobi’s largest ‘slums’
… Since 2017, IIED has been leading a research project examining the barriers to … who earlier had suggested Mukuru would have to be razed – how he felt about the settlement’s future. He acknowledged that this incremental … Mukuru’s pathbreaking experience in other slums in Nairobi. Read more about Mukuru’s SPA . …
Insight, 04 December 2019
What's the use of being an expert if no one listens to you? (Photo: Chris Pirillo, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Simply telling a good story
… feels as though we are trapped in a bubble. It's a subject I thought about a lot in preparation for the meeting. If we want to build a … how do people know it is a better world? One of the things we talked about was sharing the vision, describing that world. Sometimes we spend … can share together around a common goal. Liz Carlile ( liz.carlile@iied.org ) is director of communications at IIED. …
Insight, 10 August 2016
Rainforest logged to make way for palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Deforestation for agribusiness is destroying habitats and the ecosystems upon which local communities depend (Photo: David Gilbert/RAN, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Law and political economy of the global resource squeeze: can action rise to the challenge?
Article, 04 March 2019
Saba bananas, a cooking banana from the Philippines. Grassroots organisation FARMCOOP works with Philippine farmers’ cooperatives to negotiate fair contracts and build capacity (Photo: Obsidian Soul, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Supporting small-scale farmers in negotiations with agribusiness
… deals with their buyers, suppliers and service providers is key.  IIED’s new initiative – Empowering Producers in Commercial agriculture … is identified (for example, a lack of finance). Hopewell talked about a project in which Practical Action helped farmers produce paprika at the commercial level by providing information about the market and helping farmers understand and negotiate contracts …
Insight, 25 May 2018
An association of farmers in northeast Myanmar carries out value chain analysis of elephant foot yam (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Strengthening producer organisations is key to making finance inclusive and effective
Article, 12 March 2019
A volunteer conducting an interview outside
Evaluating change can be challenging; it starts with quality data collection
… off for endangered wildlife?   With the help of Oxford University and IIED – and supported by the UK Darwin Initiative – we set out to … and Conservation Teams (VHCTs) that sit with households and talk about conservation and the value of Bwindi as a home to endangered … and reporting using the data.  We can all be guilty of thinking about M&E as an add-on, or a really boring chore, but M&E is central to …
Insight, 25 June 2019
Land cleared for palm oil in Riau Province, Indonesia. Only half of Riau's palm oil plantations have official permits (Photo: Wakx, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Law in the natural resource squeeze: 'land grabbing', investment treaties and human rights
… law. The latest issue of the yearbook includes an article by IIED's Lorenzo Cotula. In 'Land grabbing' and international investment … Dr Cotula, principal researcher in law and sustainable development in IIED's Natural Resources research group, explores whether investment … has attracted significant public attention, giving rise to concerns about 'land grabbing'. In the article, I explore the role the law plays …
Article, 13 October 2016
Slash and burn, pictured in the Mopeia district, Zambezia province, Mozambique, has a noble motive – feeding families - but it is not sustainable (Photo: Isilda Nhantumbo/IIED)
REDD+: missionaries, conservation fortresses and the politics of carbon landscapes in Africa
… the drivers of deforestation Perhaps the issue is not so much about abandoning carbon forestry as addressing the issues elsewhere. … climate negotiations in Paris in December was that REDD+ is not about forests and the forest sector, but about addressing external … the book provide some pointers. Isilda Nhantumbo  ( Isilda.Nhantumbo@iied.org ) is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . …
Insight, 23 December 2015
Water tanker.
Beyond the city’s borders: water and sanitation access for refugees in Mafraq
… jobs and housing. We at the WANA Institute in Jordan are working with IIED, University College London and Jordan University of Science and … camp, so as to encourage stakeholders to have an informed debate about where future aid allocations could best be invested. We hope that …
Insight, 28 September 2023