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A woman carries a Nile perch landed at Got Kachola, Kenya, where the NGO Renewable World is establishing community-run energy hubs for fish chilling and other local energy needs (Photo: Sarah Best/IIED)
Four challenges to powering local economies
… A rush of innovation in off-grid energy markets linked to falling solar prices and mobile-enabled payment … commercialised, formal Nile Perch trade destined for international markets compared with the informal, low-value Omena (sardine-like fish) … is a senior researcher working on energy in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group . …
Insight, 12 September 2016
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2016 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2016: publications
Article, 02 January 2017
Tackling the trade law dimension of ‘land grabbing’
… to ‘feed the planet’, opportunities for returns in lucrative export markets have been an important driver of large land deals for plantation … signed by the EU with many countries also contain human rights and sustainable development clauses . Human rights clauses have been … Lorenzo Cotula is a principal researcher in IIED’s natural resources group. Next week he will publish a handbook —free to download from …
Insight, 14 November 2013
A demonstration of solar PV products by the Energy and Environment Partnership in Tanzania's southern Iringa Region gathers an audience of all ages (Photo: EEP Southern and Eastern Africa, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Bringing solar out of the shadows
Insight, 20 February 2017
Picture of students and speakers attending Fair Ideas.
Students on Fair Ideas and the future they want
… Among the experts and practitioners attending Fair Ideas, a group of highly-engaged students discussed the future of our generation, … filmed short video interviews and brainstormed on what’s next for sustainable development. This group, selected from diverse academic … Besides, we don’t need to be afraid of economics and we know that markets are social constructs; that they can and should be governed. But …
Insight, 10 July 2012
Woman cooks using wood fire
Feeding all city inhabitants
… adults, and underweight and stunted children. Achieving the second Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger, food insecurity and all … attention on consumption, including the importance of access to markets and nutrition education. This is partly driven by the …
Insight, 27 June 2021
The Forest and Farm Facility Vietnam team displays new forest and farm products and knowledge from work with Forest and Farm Producer Organisation businesses (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Mass mobilisation: boosting businesses and protecting forests
… climate-resilient landscapes and improved livelihoods demanded by the Sustainable Development Goals. But its real constituency are the women … forest and farm business' by facilitating links between 279 group businesses and 80 new financial or business service providers, as … and Nicaragua, work focused on building bottom-up local community group business capabilities and helping regional level associations to …
Insight, 20 March 2018
A tree nursery run by Fedecovera, is the world's biggest exporter of cardamom and a cooperative with 25,000 members (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Organise to thrive
… groups, the FFF invest in strengthening forest and farm producer group businesses, engagement with multi-sectoral policy platforms, and … Institute); and reviving the inter-institutional policy coordination group (GCI) on themes such as forests and the economy, forests and … principal researcher in IIED's forest team with the Natural Resources Group. …
Insight, 30 June 2015
Two community leaders prepare service contracts for a novel container-based sanitation service before installing toilets in users' homes in Cap Haitien, Haiti (Photo: Felipe Jacome)
Learning from the MDGs: improved sanitation and drainage in cities
… aimed to 'halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation'.  Across …
News, 07 October 2015
This week in Myanmar, pictured, the Forest Farm Facility is funding a national exchange between forest and farm producer groups and many other producer groups (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter
… forest-farm enterprises delivers local public goods (such as sustainable food, energy, water and construction materials) alongside … Duncan Macqueen is principal researcher in IIED's natural resources group ( [email protected] ). …
Insight, 24 March 2014