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Protecting the world's oceans: three key tasks
… we face in protecting them. In a video to mark World Oceans Day, IIED director Andrew Norton has set out three key priorities for protecting …
News, 08 June 2016
Call for agricultural research to serve people and planet
… Development, which focuses heavily on agriculture. The author and director of IIED's sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and livelihoods … from Oxfam Novib and the Christensen Fund. Ken Wilson, executive director of the Christensen Fund, says: "With breathtaking clarity …
News, 06 May 2009
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LAND TENURE AND FAMILY FARMING IN AFRICA: With special reference to Senegal
… IN AFRICA: With special reference to Senegal Dr. THIENDOU NIANG Director of the Agricultural Policy Network Dr. SALLA DIOR DIENG …
Publication, 01 October 2004
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The inky and talking people of the Pacific Coast of Colombia
… story is a sociologist and social communicator and is the current director of the Fundación HablaScribe (Cali, Colombia), an organisation …
Publication, 01 October 2000
Report flags progress and pitfalls in Uganda's energy sector
… says the report’s author Robert Tumwesigye Baganda, executive director of Pro-biodiversity Conservationists in Uganda. “We hope this …
News, 02 December 2011
Landscape of fields and forest
Q&A: Negotiating a new biodiversity deal that works for Indigenous Peoples
… Daniel Kobei (DK) is founder and executive director of  Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program (OPDP) , a Kenyan-based …
Article, 09 August 2021
IIED's animation explains what the Sustainable Development Goals are and highlights why they matter (Image: IIED/Hands Up)
Animating the universal ambition of the SDGs
… and demand a future we want. A shared ambition Liz Carlile, IIED's director of communications, said the animation was a response to the …
Article, 03 June 2015
Women smallholders replanting rice in the irrigated area around the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Large scale irrigated rice farming: the state must take farmers' perspectives into account
… but also on the poorest producers. In the words of Jamie Skinner, director of the GWI in West Africa: "We must seek to reconcile the aims …
News, 03 June 2014
The hidden byway to recovery?
… political will is there to make these commitments, as Mark Collins , Director of the Commonwealth Foundation , said : ‘The Commonwealth …
Insight, 20 January 2010
A house on stilts, surrounded by flood water
Politics at play at the UN climate talks? The LDCs don’t have time for games
Insight, 04 December 2019