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G20 wastes hundreds of billions on perverse fossil fuel subsidies, says global coalition
News, 06 November 2009
Three generations of Syrian refugees queuing at a registration point on the Syria/Lebanon border. The United Nations says 4.8 million people have fled the conflict in Syria (Photo: UNHCR/ M. Hofer, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Critical theme: Conflict, climate and migration in Syria – did the media get it right?
… by both the press and the public. The meeting was chaired by IIED director Andrew Norton, and featured discussant Megan Rowling, of the … to the event is also available to listen to below Andrew Norton, director of the International Institute for Environment and Development, …
Event, 03 October 2016
Man looks at two chimpanzees on a forest path
Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
Article, 21 July 2020
Delegates at the international symposium on agroecology (Photo: John Choptiany/FAO)
Agroecology offers FAO a 'new window' on agriculture
… 'Caminamos juntos!' – 'Let's walk together' – said the director-general of FAO, José Graziano da Silva, addressing around 400 … it brought often-overlooked agroecology into the FAO setting. The FAO Director-General likened the meeting to "a new window" opened in the …
Insight, 02 October 2014
An overhead view of people outside
City residents and urban refugees: from shared living to shared futures
… to improve Nairobi’s informal settlements. Jack Makau, SDI Kenya’s director, said despite its history of working in Mathare, one of …
Insight, 07 December 2020
Ruth Nguli looks at her crop of drought-tolerant beans in Makueni County, Kenya. Developing and sharing climate-smart farming techniques can help communities adapt to climate changes (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How do we measure adaptation?
… )   is senior fellow in IIED's  Climate Change Group , and the director of the International Center for Climate Change and Development …
Insight, 11 March 2015
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Q&A: Strengthening community voices to tackle illegal wildlife trade in Tanzania and Zambia
Article, 24 March 2022
A street barber in Kolkata, India. It is estimated that the city has nearly 2m street traders (Photo: Nicolas Mirguet, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The other half of the future – business' informal sector
… is recognised at last. Mick Blowfield  ( [email protected] ) is director of IIED's Sustainable Markets Group . …
Insight, 04 February 2016
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CITY-WIDE UPGRADING Baan Mankong: going to scale with "slum" and squatter upgrading in Thailand
… This paper describes the ambitious national slum and squatter director of the Community upgrading programme launched by the Thai …
Publication, 01 April 2005
A buffet of Ugandan food
Science with citizens, or science for citizens?
… conference opened with a presentation by Rosy Mondardini, managing director of the Citizen Science Center Zurich . She set out the …
Insight, 23 July 2019