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As a mountainous country, Bhutan faces particular environmental challenges (Photo: Göran Höglund, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: A pragmatic approach
… Jigme Singye Wangchuck in the 1970s. Chime Paden Wangdi, secretary general of the Tarayana Foundation in Bhutan, and a member of the Least …
Article, 27 July 2016
Chen showing Lila Buckley his innovative method for growing potatoes in straw nests.
A Chinese farm in Africa
… not to feed China per se, but to increase global food supply in general. Despite the problems with the project he worked on during our … government needs to protect its own people and ensure we don’t take jobs away from them.” But he finds hope in a new tripartite agreement …
Insight, 13 September 2012
Jakarta: migrants from rural villages sleeping in an area that they rent for Rp 1.000,- (10 cents Euro) per night per person. There can be more than 50 people living and sleeping in this area at one time (Photo: Henry Ismail, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Stopping rural people going to cities only makes poverty less visible, and stripping migrants of rights makes it worse
… low-income migrants work long hours in low-paid, insecure and unsafe jobs and are exposed to a wide range of environmental hazards because …
Insight, 18 March 2015
Logs from a community-managed forest in Ethiopia.
Rio+20: Forests form important foundation for a green economy
… in locally-controlled forestry can protect forests while creating jobs at the Fair Ideas conference organised by IIED. They also provided … forestry’ was voted as the fourth most supported proposal from the general public attending the conference. Given that the first three …
Insight, 26 June 2012
The 2011 monsoon season brought unusually heavy rains and severe floods to many south-east Asian countries. Thailand was worst affected, with large parts of the Thai capital Bangkok under water (Photo: Chrisgel Ryan Cruz, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Thailand's floods: complex political and geographical factors behind the crisis
… 837 factories in 6 industrial estates, leading to the loss of 370,316 jobs.  Ayutthaya and Pathum Thani, a huge industrial zone with many … were swamped, causing thousands of people to temporarily lose their jobs as factories were forced to end operations. It will take at least … last few months have been a time of change for the Thai government – general elections in July brought in a new Phuea Thai government (the …
Insight, 02 November 2011
Mumbai's Dharavi settlement has a thriving informal economy. The government's redevelopment schemes have been hit by controversy and stalled for more than a decade (Photo: Jon Hurd, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs don't adequately spell out cities' role in implementation
… is critical to cities in low- and middle-income countries, providing jobs, income and innovation. Growth also often provides many local …
Insight, 12 October 2015
IIED received some warm responses to a survey on its publications carried out last year (Image: Nick Turner/IIED)
Feeling the love
… specialists – the value and effectiveness of the PDF… In general we found that PDFs are still popular with our audiences and that …
Insight, 11 February 2016
Meceburi Forest, Mozambique: a young woman harvests casava (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?
… REDD+ included A major shift in favour of small forest enterprises in jobs and economies, and Organisation and partnership to integrate …
Insight, 11 February 2016
A farmer near Bagré dam in Burkina Faso dries paddy rice (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Seven papers unpick debates on African agriculture and rural development
… raise the profile of family farming and smallholder farmers. There is general agreement that family farming plays important roles in … to drive development was declining, as more and more people sought jobs in other sectors. Today, the world is a different place. …
Insight, 15 October 2014
Green Economy Coalition gives Rio 2012 text a Grade B
… Domestic Product as a metric for change and calls on the Secretary General to move forward on it; it also pushes for all listed and private … for Sustainable Energy for All initiative launched by the Secretary General, with the goals of providing universal access to a basic minimum …
Insight, 13 January 2012