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The 2015 Development & Climate Days at COP21 will focus on "tough talk on poverty and climate"
2015 Development & Climate Days: tough talk on crucial transitions
Event, 23 November 2015
Cover for 10039IIED.pdf
Following the herd: why pastoralism needs better media coverage
… Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 April 2013
Sorting apricots in Tajikistan. The diverse and extreme climatic conditions of Central Asia helped farmers develop fruit varieties adaptable to drought and other environmental stresses (Photo: UNDP, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The Paris Agreement – a framework for local inclusion
Insight, 05 February 2016
Cover for G01428.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 6 Finding the poorest in a Tamil Nadu village: a sequence of mapping and wealth ranking
… but it was only with persistent triangulation in farmer participatory research and extension and probing that we found our original picture … Social mapping and other participatory in the diverse and risk-prone drylands. methods Accordingly, a participatory on-farm programme with a …
Publication, 01 January 1992
South Africans celebrate 'Vuvuzela Day': the World Forestry Congress in Durban will discuss critical forestry issues (Photo: Dundas Football Club, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Time to dust off the vuvuzelas
… been captured in a special edition of the European Tropical Forest Research Network News No. 57 (PDF)  to be launched at the event. What …
Insight, 04 September 2015
Cover for 10026IIED.pdf
Towards education for nomads: community perspectives in Kenya
… about education. It was produced as part of a broader action research programme that is guiding the Government of Kenya’s strategy … Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 August 2010
Lebanon is hosting one million Syrian refugees, and around half of them are children. Most families live in makeshift shelters; some rent half-built apartments, sharing with two or three families (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities
… ) is a senior researcher in IIED's  Human Settlements research group,  and leads IIED’s work on cities and climate change . …
Insight, 11 May 2017
View of a forest with a volcano in the background
2021 Barbara Ward Lecture: Rebeca Grynspan says nothing is ever so small that it cannot make a difference
… learn and revise” – Grynspan’s third lesson. “Bring in universities, research; innovate, listen to other experience – but don’t try to copy, …
Article, 16 December 2021
Cover for G02741.pdf
Report of workshop on nomadic education, Nakuru (26-28 January 2010)
… Education for Nomads programme team have since carried out extensive research around the problem of how Kenyan pastoralists can acquire the … retired education specialists to this workshop in order to share the research findings to date and use the participants’ expert knowledge to … Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 March 2010
WoDaaBe pastoralist with his cattle.
Pastoral livelihoods and climate change in Niger
… for land, rising population and decentralisation. What IIED did The research sought a better understanding of how different pastoral groups … of these are successful and why  (website in French). Central to the research was also gaining an understanding of the role of politics and … and residence impacted on these groups’ capacities to adapt.  Research findings were subsequently documented in a video by Marie …
Project, 05 February 2010