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A market stall. According to recent studies, 75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species (Photo: Hivos)
Cooking for our future
… pointing in the wrong direction – Lawrence Haddad, GAIN executive director, world food prize co-winner 2018 Since food is such good …
Insight, 20 February 2019
Peasant Seeds: the foundation of food sovereignty in Africa
… Echange et Diffusion d’Expériences (BEDE ). Dr. Michel Pimbert, Director of IIED’s Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity and Livelihoods …
News, 12 February 2009
An ecosan toilet in Mtandire settlement (Photo: Slum/Shack Dwellers International)
Achieving universal sanitation: Sharing the experience of the SDI affiliate in Blantyre, Malawi
… of the Rural and Urban Poor , Mphatso Njunga, as well as the Director of Health and Social Services in the city of Blantyre, Emmanuel …
Insight, 27 October 2014
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams
… who host those displaced are also greatly affected.  Jamie Skinner, director of the Global Water Initiative in West Africa , says: "If …
News, 16 December 2015
The entrance to Le Bourget, the venue for the UN climate talks (COP21) (Photo: Takver, Creative Commons via Flickr)
INDCs in Least Developed Countries are estimated to cost US$93.7 billion per year
… reaches the Least Developed Countries," says Dr Andrew Norton, director of IIED. "A fair and effective deal at Paris should prioritise …
News, 30 November 2015
An American predicament that threatens the Green Climate Fund
Insight, 03 November 2011
Participants study a map in Bangladesh. Photo: Isabelle Lemaire
Action Research on Community Adaptation in Bangladesh
Project, 17 December 2012
Roadside stalls
For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings
… for the poor cannot happen in a vacuum,” explains Laura Alfers, director of WIEGO’s social protection programme. “Street vendors are out …
Insight, 12 August 2019
For the first time, IIED has produced a bespoke online annual report (Photo: IIED/We are Tangerine)
2014 annual report: online and in print
… perspectives and experience. In addition to a video introduction from Director Camilla Toulmin, there is an assessment of the institute’s …
News, 11 November 2014
An oil flare in Port Harcourt Nigeria.
Transparency: can it work for sustainable development?
… Another co-author of the IIED report, professor Ingilab Ahmadov, director of the Eurasia Knowledge Hub at Khazar University in Baku , … pro-poor societal change,” says Dr James Van Alstine, deputy director of the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of …
Insight, 23 May 2013