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Close-up of a shovel, on which dirt is balanced, during a tree-planting ceremony, with a plaque in the background
Trees need locally-grown politics
… The collective brings together the expertise of UK and Southern-based research partner organisations and offers a rapid social science research response to inform decision-making on some of the most pressing …
Insight, 04 June 2021
Talking change: climate change adaptation in Tanzania
News, 01 June 2012
Cover for 12530IIED.pdf
Making decentralisation work for sustainable natural resource management in the Sahel: lessons from a programme of action-research, policy debate and citizen empowerment
… Drylands and pastoralism … resource management in the Sahel: lessons from a programme of action-research, policy debate and citizen empowerment …
Publication, 01 May 2006
A young rice farmer at Sélingué, Mali. A new report urges governments and development agencies to develop context-specific strategies and support systems for agricultural advisory services that meet the needs of local farmers (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
Growing rice needs more than soil and water
… better. But AAS have long been the neglected sibling of agricultural research, with investments pouring primarily into the development of new … large irrigation schemes? Not really, according to GWI's action research. Farmer organisations and agricultural service providers … is principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group …
Insight, 30 September 2016
Cover for G01919.pdf
Tips for trainers - Pairing of proverbs to find your partner
… It was ‘invented’ at the 1999 annual workshop of the regional action-research programme on the ‘Shared Management of Common Property … in the Sahel’ project, jointly undertaken by SOS Sahel/GB and the Drylands Programme of IIED.~The exercise breaks down language barriers …
Publication, 01 October 2000
Head and shoulders images
Remembering Nigel Cross and Brian Walker, leading lights of IIED
… successfully set up and then run a small NGO focused on the African drylands, SOS-Sahel International UK . He had asked for the start of his … Commission report ‘Our Common Future’ and developed world class research programmes on human settlements, energy, forestry and …
Insight, 16 October 2019
Cover for 10119IIED.pdf
Economic value of camel milk in pastoralist communities in Ethiopia: Findings from Yabello district, Borana zone
… This is one of a series of reports synthesising the findings of field research conducted by masters’ degree students at Ethiopian universities … production to the national economy. The students developed the research to complement their degree studies, with support from the … Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 April 2015
Cover for 10120IIED.pdf
Market chain analysis of live goats: Asaita District, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia
… This is one of a series of reports synthesising the~findings of field research conducted by masters’~degree students at Ethiopian universities … production~to the national economy. The students developed~the research to complement their degree studies,~with support from the … Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 April 2015
Cover for 10121IIED.pdf
Value chain analysis of the cattle trade in Moyale, southern Ethiopia: An economic assessment in Oromiya Regional State
… This is one of a series of reports synthesising the~findings of field research conducted by masters’~degree students at Ethiopian universities … production~to the national economy. The students developed~the research to complement their degree studies,~with support from the … Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 April 2015
Cover for 10122IIED.pdf
The contribution of camel milk to pastoralist livelihoods in Ethiopia: An economic assessment in Somali Regional State
… This is one of a series of reports synthesising the~findings of field research conducted by masters’~degree students at Ethiopian universities … production~to the national economy. The students developed~the research to complement their degree studies,~with support from the … Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 April 2015