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Investment treaties could mean governments bear big financial costs contesting 'land grabs'
… areas: land reform, measures to address land grabs and more general land governance systems. Quick facts There are more than 3,000 …
News, 09 July 2015
Barbara Ward in the audience
IIED's founder: Barbara Ward
Article, 20 August 2014
GWI influence - access and rights to irrigated land - planting rice - Selingue dam - Mali
Global Water Initiative: Mali
Project, 16 February 2018
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
… in numerous sessions . IEG member Mariteuw Chimere Diaw, director general of the African Model Forest Network (AMFN), spoke about energy …
Event, 23 November 2015
Durban Beach, South Africa (Photo: Darren Glanville, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Investing in natural capital to deliver the SDGs and reduce poverty
… of natural capital for supporting livelihoods, is investing general government budget in natural capital. Khatibu Kazungu, deputy …
Insight, 17 July 2017
Ancestral miners rush to find gold and platinum ore at a mine wall opened by medium-scale mining (Photo: Ronald de Hommel)
Informality and formalisation in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector
… on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development 10th Annual General Meeting in Geneva from 21-24 October . Persistent informality …
Insight, 12 November 2014
Urban poor transform slums in 100+ cities in 15 Asian nations
… are never scaled up," says Somsook Boonyabancha, the ACHR's secretary general. "ACCA is different. It supports city-wide activities and …
News, 14 September 2011
Delegates at the 20th Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) meeting integrate poverty and environmental issues into the global agenda in Edinburgh in late May (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Putting ourselves out of business – forward planning for the PEP
… arguably been recognised in the SDGs, due to be endorsed by the UN General Assembly in September this year, and the subject of a recent …
Insight, 29 June 2015
Raipur in Central India is developing into a major urban centre, but the infrastructure in the city's expanding informal settlements is poor (Photo: India Water Portal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in urban areas
Insight, 26 April 2017
Pedicabs on the flooded streets of Manila, Philippines.
How does a changing climate impact on urban poverty?
Insight, 28 March 2013