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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
… World Migration Report 2015 Migrants and Cities: New Urban Partnerships to Manage Mobility asks just that.  Rural-urban migration, …
Insight, 18 March 2015
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
Project, 14 August 2013
A meeting of mines
Insight, 20 April 2010
Q&A: climate negotiations
Article, 17 March 2009
Two women wearing traditional gowns stand in a maize field
EbA Evidence and Policy: China
… representatives from social organizations, the media and the general public from across China. The event was held with support from …
Project, 13 June 2018
A toilet block in Mumbai, India, where people living in different informal settlements experience distinct forms of inadequate sanitation (Photo: Renu Desai)
Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem
… which approaches (e.g. state- or community-led, or public-private partnerships) ensure maintenance, is a lively one. I could go on. The … Understanding sites of entitlement is important if we are to develop general standards that are flexible enough to meet what people need and …
Insight, 26 August 2015
A family in Tarialan, Uvs Province, Mongolia, uses a solar panel to generate power for their ger, a traditional Mongolian tent (Photo: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Why social inclusion matters for green growth
… to move the inclusive green growth agenda forward, through new partnerships, initiatives, and commitments to action. The progressive … extreme poverty – and finally feel included. Yvo de Boer is director-general of the Global Green Growth Institute and served as executive …
Insight, 11 August 2016
PLA 23: Participatory Approaches to HIV/AIDS Programmes
… make to HIV work in Africa and in Asia.  This issue also includes ten general articles. This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons …
Article, 31 May 1995
Participants at the third China-Africa Forest Governance Learning Platform meeting in Beijing (Photo: Simon Lim/IIED)
China-Africa Forest Governance Learning Platform puts focus on business solutions
… in improving timber trade and investment legality Wang Shaofang, general secretary of the Shanghai Timber Industry Association described …
News, 14 February 2017
Meceburi Forest, Mozambique: a young woman harvests casava (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?
Insight, 11 February 2016