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A man and woman standing in a field
Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms
… decision but preserving land for livestock needs consensus and a governance framework at village level to put it in place. If villages … soil, or they could collect up all crop residues to feed livestock at home, leaving the soil exposed to the elements and removing nutrients.  …
Article, 26 April 2020
The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is one of the world's largest cities. It is surrounded by rivers and lies only a few metres above sea level. The urban poor living in flood-prone areas are most threatened by climate change (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
The IPCC and an urbanising planet
… support this: "Urban adaptation benefits from effective multi-level governance, alignment of policies and incentives, strengthened local …
Insight, 06 November 2014
Solar panels, such as these in Bhutan, are benefiting millions of energy-poor households (Photo: Richard Furlong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Turning up the volume: five insights into aggregating finance for expanding off grid energy investment
… people who do not have electricity, through solar lanterns, solar home systems and mini-grids.  But while millions of energy-poor …
Insight, 03 November 2017
A Rwandan farmer checks his coffee beans. A banana tree is visible behind him.
Rwanda: test case on international commitment to financing climate change adaptation?
Insight, 06 March 2013
Lake Bogoria is home to one of the world's largest populations of Flamingos. It has been a protected reserve since 1973. The lake area was the traditional home of the Endorois people, who were forced to leave the area in the 1970s (Photo: Geoffroy Mauvais/IUCN)
It's time to end conservation injustice
… lesser flamingoes. Most are blissfully unaware that the area was once home to the Endorois, nomadic pastoralists who were evicted when it …
Insight, 17 November 2014
Funding Community Initiatives
Publication, 01 January 1994
The chairman of the Mpungu Authorised Resource User Group, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, who was involved in the development of the 'Multiple Use' programme (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Built on collaboration: how conservation research can benefit local people
… profiles and motivations of resource users and local perceptions of governance at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda   Project …
Insight, 27 March 2015
A host of government leaders made pledges at the 2015 UN Climate Summit hosted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (Photos: Saleemul Huq/IIED)
A week that may change the world
Insight, 25 September 2014
Esther Msafiri demonstrates using electricity for oil pressing in Njombe region, Tanzania (Photo: Sarah Best/IIED)
Powering local development in Tanzania
Insight, 24 February 2017
Cover for G00452.pdf
153 9 The new world order and Pakistan
… to afford imports. Its poor have to cope with impoverishment at home, or struggle to migrate to better-off countries (although facing … Governance …
Publication, 01 January 1970