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People in a food market
Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than income
… of deprivation do highlight material deficiencies, such as a lack of food or clothes. But social relationships are vital to cope with … Formally, in allocating the funds, priority was to be given to agriculture rather than businesses, women rather than men, and …
Insight, 29 August 2019
Elephant yams growing on a forested slope in Myanmar.
Myanmar: Could an unusual yam help the march of community forestry?
Insight, 17 May 2013
REDD+ project design: 10 points to consider so the poor don’t lose out
… cash transfers are more effective than in-kind transfers – such as food transfers, goods or vouchers to buy goods. For example, in the … programmes, community-based natural resource management, and food or cash transfer programmes. My paper reviewed these schemes and … impact on the local economy. We can learn lessons from previous food/cash transfer programmes, which have sometimes demonstrated that, …
Insight, 30 January 2012
Pakistan: floods and after
… shrub-lands and forests in them have been destroyed to make way for agriculture. This has increased the scale of flooding and the velocity … the local population can be mobilised for this work through a cash or food for work programme. Our bureaucracy is well aware of how such …
Insight, 01 September 2010
Fishing boats return to a beach on the Bay of Bengal.
New Commission for oceans in crisis
… habitat destruction, and destructive fishing practices. In 2009, the Food and Agriculture Organization said that over half the world’s fish stocks …
Insight, 14 February 2013
Images such as this of a culvert constructed to allow villagers to cross the River Mahenya in Kenya, but which proves insufficient at times of extreme rainfall, are often used to tell the story of climate change in Africa. But Fatima Denton will challenge that narrative in her Barbara Ward Lecture (Photo: Robin Wyatt, http://www.robinwyatt.org/photography/)
Room for optimism on Africa, the "hopeful" continent
Insight, 21 October 2014
Richard Sandbrook Memorial Lecture
News, 23 March 2011
Coral reefs provide us with goods worth hundreds of billions of dollars but are in decline. Copyright: 2004 Richard Ling
How to protect our oceans: use more carrots
… according to UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook 5 . Similarly, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture …
Insight, 01 November 2013
Annual report 2009/10
… of the field and highlighted some unexpected findings. Farmer-led food research:  IIED was working to upend the current system of … helping farmers’ and citizens’ groups shape agendas and funding for food research. New dams for West Africa:  new dams were being planned …
Page, 21 October 2010
A plenary session at COP15 (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
COP15 UN Climate Change Conference
… aim for substantially more funding -  Download Report (PDF 2Mb) ‘Food miles’ mantra can be ‘miles worse’ for climate and communities, say … key lessons Cultivating success: the need to climate-proof Tanzanian agriculture The Adaptation Fund: a model for the future? Community-based …
Event, 20 December 2009