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A vendor in India uses energy produced by a micro-grid funded by SunFunder (Photo: Sameer Halai/SunFunder)
Off-grid energy powered by the crowd
… electrification goals. Boris Lopicich ([email protected]) is managing director at the NGO Innovation, Development and Equity in Santiago, …
Insight, 09 April 2015
2017: pastoralists in Isiolo county in Kenya are digging for water in dried-up river beds. Agricultural insurance schemes can help pastoralists and farmers be more resilient to climate shocks (Photo: Denis Onyodi/KRCS)
Insuring against climate risk in Kenya
Insight, 06 June 2017
The Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation secures houses, sanitation and land rights for members. Communication and participation are central to the way it works (Photo: Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Creative Commons via Flickr)
Do you have the power to influence your own life?
… very well worth the effort. Liz Carlile ( [email protected] ) is director of communications at IIED. …
Insight, 06 March 2015
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
… in Europe . These projects were led by Dr Michel Pimbert, who is now director of the Centre for Agroecology and Food Security (CAFS) at …
Project, 14 August 2013
Sales to processor at wholesale market. Photo: Jikun Huang
Regoverning Markets
… Dialogue Felicity Proctor Consulting Ltd, UK. Felicity Proctor, Director and Visiting Fellow IIED University of the Philippines at …
Project, 09 August 2013
In Tanzania, former artisanal mining licensees Mwanahamisi Mzalendo and Mwanamkasi Rasi are among entreprenurial women who have pooled their resources to create a quarrying business. They control the day-to-day running of the quarry, including supervising labourers, dealing with the local authorities, and taking care of the site's environmental footprint (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)
Q&A: Women are driving the change we need
… Fatima Denton is director of the Special Initiatives Division at the UN Economic …
Article, 08 March 2018
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Climate Change And Development Consultation On Key Researchable Issues Sectoral Issues Section 2.5. Health
… adverse consequences for human health." Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, World Health Organization. Speech at Geneva, World …
Publication, 01 January 1970
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MDG3-ch2.qxd 31/8/05 9:43 am Page 27 27 2 Securing land and property rights in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of local institutions
… for Environment and Development (IIED). 2. Camilla Toulmin is Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Peru's Quelccaya ice cap is the largest glaciated area in the tropics; glaciers play a significant role in Lima's water provision (Photo: Wikipedia via Creative Commons)
Recognising the risks – what do people in Lima think about climate change?
Insight, 22 December 2014
Site discussions to integrate biodiversity into mine planning and operations (Photo: SANBI)
Mining for common ground: putting biodiversity on South African mining companies' agendas
… towards the country's shared natural assets.  Wilma Lutsch, director of biodiversity conservation at the Department of Environmental …
Article, 21 March 2016