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Wind farm outside Adigrat, northern Ethiopia.
Scaling up renewable technologies: incremental or transformational change?
… their commercial viability. In Ethiopia, the only private sector-led component of the SREP is the clean energy- SME Capacity Building and … from the private sector.  Most of the Ethiopian plan is public sector led because the Ethiopian government believes it should invest in a … SREP, the government also sees this predominantly as a public sector-led effort. The proposed Central Renewable Energy Fund (CERF) in Nepal, …
Insight, 08 July 2013
A group of women in a forest smile as they hold out handfuls of coffee beans
Producer agency and voice in certification schemes
Insight, 26 March 2021
The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)
Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
… expertise in different aspects of sustainable development, including community development, environmental management, climate change, energy, … organisation in Haiti that focuses on education, culture, community development, environment, gender equity and civil society. She … for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), and the AMFN. He has led or contributed to several international programs on adaptive …
Article, 03 August 2015
Tackling the trade law dimension of ‘land grabbing’
… last year, as I reported in this book . Concerns about food security led some governments to promote land acquisitions overseas and take more … and well thought out metrics can help the international aid community sharpen its focus. But it would be a mistake to lose sight of …
Insight, 14 November 2013
A village in Burkina Faso. Land investment in Africa is growing driven by rises in global food prices, companies who see market opportunities in biofuels, and overseas countries anxious to secure their food supplies through direct investment. Photo: Tex
‘Land grabbing’ in Africa: Biofuels are not off the hook
… In Liberia, for example, the Ecofys report classifies a palm oil deal led by an Indonesian company as being for 240,000 hectares. Yet the …
Insight, 16 October 2013
Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change: What role for Official Development Assistance?
… that carefully planned mainstreaming can complement Convention-led processes, and enable better access to and effectiveness of UNFCCC … change. Further, there are incentives for the development assistance community to take up this role, because climate change will compound the … be through the regime that the necessary political momentum to carry initiatives forward is achieved. Mainstreaming climate change adaptation …
Article, 14 November 2008