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Camila Oliveira on NBSAPs revision in Brazil
… our national Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) in 2010, led by Dr Braulio Dias until he left to become executive secretary to … in the subject participated in meetings, created actions and initiatives and drew up a budget. You may want to know how this …
Insight, 01 May 2014
Hundreds of power-tillers from China lie unused in Ethiopia. They can be used to plow, power a water-pump, and generate electricity, but low sales were thought to be caused by a lack of technical information, showing how China's role in African agriculture must be researched (Photo: IFPRI-IMAGES, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Chinese engagement in African agriculture is not what it seems
… a number of cases of business investments in agriculture, primarily led by Chinese state-owned enterprises. Chinese development efforts mix …
Insight, 06 April 2016
Moving beyond the preamble to creating a new story at Rio+20
… that in Denmark, wind farms were widely welcomed because they were community, rather than corporate-led, projects. Mark Simmonds responded that there would be deep … concern and ambition, but to focus on learning from the 20 years of initiatives that this process has already produced, to generate …
Insight, 24 May 2012
A Chinese journalist interviews fellow journalists in Kenya (Photo: YiDe Media)
China-Africa relations: Fresh perspectives from Chinese journalists on environmental challenges
… whose conservation was made possible through civil society movements led by Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai — one of the journalists praised … generating evidence and informing policymakers, we believe that our initiatives to make Chinese voices from the field heard and to raise …
Insight, 02 May 2014
A man and woman standing in a field
Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms
… particularly in a context of climate uncertainty and change, and has led to rapid population growth in towns and cities in Burkina Faso: the … permit communities and local government bodies to secure and manage community grazing areas in a participatory and consensual way. Stop the …
Article, 26 April 2020
IIED researchers in Uganda: "IIED works with small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs), municipal governments, pastoral communities, representatives of urban poor federations, smallholder farming groups, and other poorly represented interests" (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Reflections on my time as IIED director
… of climate change for work across all our programmes. Saleemul Huq led this process, making the case for why climate change matters hugely …
Insight, 05 March 2015
Smog over Kathamandu. Air pollution in Nepal's capital regularly breaches the World Health Organisation's safety guidelines (Kashish Das Shrestha)
Clearing the air in Kathmandu
… cuts of 12 hours or more per day during the winter months. This has led to a rapid rise in privately owned power generators, largely using … policy makes it easier to install larger solar systems or community micro-grids that can send power to the central grid, reducing …
Insight, 07 June 2016
Old woman in profile in front of thatched hut and mud house. Niger.
Making gender and generation matter
… Federations : this paper documents the emergence of the first women-led slum dweller Federation, Mahila Milan, which was established in … role of the Climate Change Media Partnership : this paper details the initiatives taken by the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) to … generation are important to the success of sustainable development initiatives, and many available tools and approaches already reflect …
Project, 26 April 2011
A farmer in Tattaguine, Senegal benefits from an irrigation project. IIED is advocating for the Green Climate Fund to speed up the process of getting finance to local levels, those who need it most (Photo: Ryan Kendrick Smith, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: a message to the Green Climate Fund board
… for GCF funds. This is another exciting innovation – this network of community organisations of the urban poor, mobilising groups of … conventional aid projects – large-scale infrastructure projects led by multilateral agencies. It's seven years since the GCF was first … management need stronger belief and sustained support for a country-led vision and enhanced direct access  – Developing countries must …
Article, 10 October 2016
A toilet block in Mumbai, India, where people living in different informal settlements experience distinct forms of inadequate sanitation (Photo: Renu Desai)
Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem
… that are most appropriate, and about which approaches (e.g. state- or community-led, or public-private partnerships) ensure maintenance, is a lively … needs. A geographical approach to the SDGs This means that global initiatives like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must be …
Insight, 26 August 2015