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This map of the covered and open drains in Jamshed Town, Karachi illustrates how communities have led on installing sewers and drains (Image: Orangi Pilot Project–Research and Training Institute)
Reducing risks in urban centres: think 'local, local, local'
… of their urban population lacking sanitation and piped water at home is lower today than it was in 1990 (PDF) . Data and local action …
Insight, 08 May 2017
Bolivian family farming organisations show a poster about their award-winning coffee business development activity at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Modern food systems to emerge in new decade of family farming
… . These are: Strengthening family farming organisational capacity and governance Sustainable production and related services (eg innovations …
Insight, 04 April 2019
Maurice Strong at the High Level Dialogue on Global Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Sergio Greif, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Remembering Maurice Strong, pioneering environmental champion
… with the UN Conference on Human Settlements in 1976. She wrote 'Home of Man', the theme book for the conference and the catalyst for …
Insight, 04 December 2015
New Community Forest Instructions give communities rights to commercially sell timber and non-timber forest products, such as such as rattan and honey (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest rights create new livelihoods in Myanmar
… a more enabling policy environment for community forest businesses at home, by pointing to progress elsewhere.  A vision for the way forward …
Insight, 05 December 2017
View of Harpan village of Panchase – the upstream of Phewa Lake (Photo: Amit Poudyal/IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Nepal
Project, 26 June 2018
A man sprays disinfectant onto a person's hands
How Dhaka's urban poor are dealing with COVID-19
… but to get enough to eat. In the city's crowded informal settlements, home to workers from all over the country, public services are not …
Insight, 01 July 2020
People need at least US$50 to survive for a month in Hanoi. This is twice the official urban poverty line (Photo via Commons Wikimedia/Google licence)
If we don't count the poor, the poor don't count
… for water from vendors because they have no water piped to their home. They must pay to use public toilets and washing facilities as …
Insight, 12 June 2014
View of a mountain with a few houses. Snowed mountains in the background.
Loss and damage: erosion of Nepal’s life, land and beauty is deep and irreparable
Insight, 19 January 2022
Lots of people park their motorbikes to gather
Q&A: How COVID-19 is impacting rural Africans in the Sahel
… or village can take steps, since they’ll come and kill you at home. Did you hear about the case of T* in the neighboring village? They … four trips to carry the harvest back from the threshing ground to home, rather than the expected 17-20 trips. You see the difference? It … But men young and old need to make money. You can’t just sit at home. People need something to do in the dry season, like having …
Article, 26 May 2021
A riverbank settlement in Indonesia illustrates the vulnerability of residents to both flooding and pollution (Photo: Isabelle Lemaire/IIED)
Comparing approaches to riverbank vulnerability in Indonesia
Insight, 08 January 2016