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New Melones Lake, California, which is facing one of the most severe droughts on record with a state of emergency declared in January (Photo: Ben Amstutz, Flickr, via Creative Commons)
2016 – when global meets local in climate action
Insight, 04 January 2016
Alternatives to large land acquisitions in developing nations
News, 18 June 2010
Ibadan, Nigeria, a city that has experienced devastating high winds and flooding (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
How risk accumulates in African cities – and ways to break the cycle
… these decisions right.  David Dodman  ( [email protected] ) is director of IIED's  Human Settlements research group . …
Insight, 30 January 2017
The Kob population in Uganda is being depleted by poaching, pictured in Queen Elizabeth National Park (Photo: Roger Day Photography)
Building capacity for pro-poor responses to wildlife crime in Uganda
… crime research workshop: wildlife crime database , by conservation director Andy Plumptre of the Wildlife Conservation Society Pro-poor …
Project, 22 July 2014
We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
… development and the battle for ideas in 2017 January: IIED's director, Andrew Norton, wrote our most read blog of 2017. Looking back …
Article, 22 December 2017
A cup of coffee. We are drinking more coffee: the International Coffee Organisation says world coffee consumption has been rising by an average of 2.3 per cent per year (Photo: Benedicto de Jesus, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A new kind of brew: smallholder coffee and carbon
… is produced by small family farms? According to Merling Preza , director of a cooperative in Nicaragua, 95 per cent of Nicaragua's …
Insight, 08 December 2015
Meceburi Forest, near Nampula, Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
The Musketeers of development
… that looking at just one side of the die is insufficient – as IIED Director Camilla Toulmin made very clear in her blog last month . None …
Insight, 16 July 2014
Solar-radiation management aims to reduce the amount of solar energy warming the planet by blocking the sun with tiny particles (Photo: Mike, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Geoengineering and development – what price on equity and justice in the coming climate culture wars?
… the rich and powerful. Andrew Norton  ( [email protected] ) is director of IIED. …
Insight, 20 December 2017
Farmer stands in her field of groundnuts boarded by maize in Malawi
Democratising food and agricultural research
… This area of work was previously led by Dr Michel Pimbert, who is now director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at …
Project, 17 August 2012
Plan Vivo partners at a conference in Sweden commit to actively engage in the implementation and accountability of the SDGs (Photo: Plan Vivo Foundation)
The SDGs speak and we like what we hear
… of Hope project in Malawi. This message was evident for the managing director of Sigtuna Destination AB in Sweden, Camilla Zedendahl,  who …
Insight, 15 October 2015