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January 2004 Contents 1. Finding Common Ground: Indigenous peoples and their association with the mining sector. By the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development project 2. What Are We Learning from Experiences with
… project 2. What Are We Learning from Experiences with Markets for Environmental Services in Costa Rica? A review and critique of the … of an international workshop. By GRAF, GRET and IIED (Eds.) 7. Community Integrated Pest Management in Indonesia: Institutionalising … from long-term data? By Michael Mortimore Issue: 120 ­ Community-based Land Tenure Management. Questions and answers about ... …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Garment workers in Bangladesh - increasing automation threatens low-cost manufacturing jobs in developing countries (Photo: NYU Stern BHR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development
… of work faces in the coming years there is a need to ensure that environmental stewardship is rewarded from the micro to the macro level. … Employment Guarantee Act in India, for example, supports both local environmental infrastructure and the livelihoods of poor people who can … in which the explosion of AI-driven technological change can boost environmental progress – from micro-grids that enable renewable energy …
Insight, 17 August 2017
Women harvesting brinjal near the Indian city of Gorakhpur. Peri-urban agriculture helps to ensure local food supplies, especially of fruit and vegetables (Photo: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group)
Farming on the city's periphery to enhance resilience
Insight, 09 June 2015
A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber
China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?
… biodiversity-value forest loss; illicit timber trading; and rising environmental costs. Kribi is home to one of China’s biggest global port … Working with CED, the Global Environmental Institute (a Beijing-based NGO) and key players in the Cameroonian government, IIED was able … and the capacity of local communities. Our work shows that forums for community engagement – which the large infrastructure companies are …
Insight, 19 June 2019
Sustainable tourism
… of a study which tested the effectiveness of these strategies. Community management of natural resources in Africa : This review provides an unprecedented pan-African synthesis of Community Based Natural Resource Management. CAMPFIRE and payments for environmental services : The Communal Areas Management Programme for …
Article, 21 June 2011
An image showing a group of women from Tongaradha village, Bangladesh, who saved more than 2,000 hectares of land and 500 households from flooding by rebuilding a 12km embankment and a 5km road. GCF money should be used for such innovative, community-driven projects in poor countries that will drive long-term change (Photo: WFP/Rein Skullerud, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Expediting direct access to the GCF for least developed countries
Insight, 09 May 2016
People point to a computer screen.
ELLA - sharing Evidence and Lessons from Latin America
… that are a cross between an online learning programme and a community of practice. Each alliance starts with a moderated learning … from one of three regional centres of expertise. ( GRADE , a Lima-based think tank, covers economic development themes. Fundar , a Mexico … the learning alliance on climate resilient cities, which will take an environmental perspective. It will be focusing on three questions: What …
Insight, 12 November 2012
IIED mourns the death of much-loved colleague Ivan Bond
… researcher at IIED, working on the practicalities of payments for environmental services - much on watersheds and latterly on REDD - and a … years engaged with a wide network of southern Africa protagonists in community based natural resource management. Ivan joined DFID in September last …
News, 04 March 2010
A partially obstructed drain in Gangtok city, Sikkim (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty
Insight, 21 July 2016
A woman holding a mobile phone and smiling
Using technology to overcome challenges for farmers in value chains
… with VFK for lower interest rates and collateral requirements based on farm output. Farmers have been able to produce bigger … farmers: using its new data, e-Granary would like to introduce socio-environmental training (understanding the relationship between farmers activities and environmental change, for example). Providing more services is also a …
Insight, 27 May 2020