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Women are sat at tables selling food a distance apart
Uganda’s hungry food vendors: counting the cost of COVID-19
… distance could be maintained.  Vendors shared the challenges of bring home income. A few had been able to change to selling fresh foods. But … on handouts from others.  Kemirembe Generous explained: “I stayed at home for two weeks and I found myself eating into my savings. I’m making …
Insight, 11 June 2020
Woman washing dishes in a bowl outside.
Grassroots insights into urban risk and resilience
Project, 20 October 2020
Power and politics in Nigeria
… the world average, similar to Bangladesh and triple that of Haiti. Home grown power But these figures, which are based on power generated … Governance …
Insight, 24 February 2011
Temporary settlements in Kirtipur, Nepal, which was devastated by earthquakes in 2015 (Photo: Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed)
Cash transfers in urban crises: do they work for women?
… those women and girls whose incomes are heavily dependent on informal home-based work: when homes are reduced to rubble, paid home-based work disappears. Shortages of gas, fuel and medicine also …
Insight, 08 March 2017
The landscape of the Santurbán páramo.
Unpacking regulatory chill: the case of mining in the Santurbán páramo in Colombia
… Santurbán páramo in Colombia .  This ecosystem unique to the Andes is home to significant biodiversity and a key source of fresh water (to …
Insight, 21 December 2020
Ibadan, Nigeria, a city that has experienced devastating high winds and flooding (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
How risk accumulates in African cities – and ways to break the cycle
Insight, 30 January 2017
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Ungovernable spaces? Rebuilding a resilient pastoral economy in Northern Mali
… manage, it is not all uninhabitable or uninhabited: some areas are home to pastoral nomads. But these areas also provide shelter for a …
Publication, 01 October 2013
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Linking Conservation, Equity and Poverty Alleviation: Understanding profiles and motivations of resource users and local perceptions of governance at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
… Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, southwest Uganda, is home to around half the world’s population of critically endangered … profiles and motivations of resource users and local perceptions of governance at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda …
Publication, 01 August 2014
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Climate Change Risks and Resilience in Urban Children in Asia: Synthesis Report for Secondary Cities: Da Nang, Khulna, and Malolos
Publication, 01 July 2015
Animation of a woman picking vegetables
Pushed past coping: IIED animation captures destruction of climate change loss and damage in Sierra Leone
News, 15 March 2021