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Mogadishu attracts people from all over the country, making it the second-fastest growing city in the world, with a 4% annual rate of urbanisation growth (Photo: Baron Reznik, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The challenge of finding money to build shelter in Mogadishu’s informal settlements
… themselves in settlements, neither their homes nor their situation is sustainable.  A durable solution for housing Mogadishu’s vulnerable …
Insight, 28 January 2019
Community technicians and coordinators in Uganda chat with a local farmer during a monitoring visit. These discussions are a key connection between the technical and local worlds in carbon forestry (Photo: Geoff Wells)
Bridging the two worlds of carbon forestry
… Plan Vivo's efforts to connect smallholders and communities to global markets while protecting and providing environmental services is one … University of Edinburgh and a consultant working with IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group . …
Insight, 05 April 2017
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
… importantly, political will.  Read more: IIED's Human Settlements Group is working with partners around the world to identify the … change on Least Developed Countries: are the SDGs possible? The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the United Nations' development …
Article, 31 December 2015
A new radish variety shown off by Dayanand Joshi
As climate changes, Himalayan farmers return to traditional crops
… have the food they need is key. Not just in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals’ target of zero hunger , but to make sure … of finger millet, which is highly nutritious and sought after in markets and requires less water than rice and wheat. And in the east, … crucial role that traditional farmers play and treats them as a peer group that has valuable local knowledge, rather than just being viewed …
Insight, 29 October 2018
Waste pickers packing up the recyclable materials, Peru (Photo: Alex Proimos, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Workers in informal economy need say in global environmental agendas
… by international agencies is to green the economy by reorienting markets toward more sustainable economic activities. But this green economy agenda risks … ( [email protected] ) is a consultant in IIED's Human Settlements Group and PhD candidate at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, …
Insight, 07 December 2015
An elephant feeds on Acacia trees in Kenya's Ol Kinyei Conservancy. The privately managed conservancy offers employment and training to local communities (Photo: Stuart Price/Make it Kenya Photo, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Turn up the volume: community voices on illegal wildlife trade
… as a serious crime, strengthening law enforcement, and supporting sustainable livelihoods and economic development. Countries that have … under these strategies. But overall, progress has been slow, with the sustainable livelihoods theme making the least headway.  Furthermore, … we partnered with IUCN’s Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi) , Fauna and Flora International (FFI) and the Zoological …
Insight, 31 October 2018
Despite the importance of the agriculture sector in Ethiopia, access to credit is limited (Photo: Morgana Wingard/USAID, Flickr via Creative Commons)
Farming impacts in sub-Saharan Africa
… a changing political and institutional environment, where liberalised markets now dominate. The three new papers investigate current debates … the way forward ' summarises innovations used to improve access to sustainable financial services for agriculture and rural areas in …
News, 23 April 2015
Durban Beach, South Africa (Photo: Darren Glanville, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Investing in natural capital to deliver the SDGs and reduce poverty
… As the UN High-level Political Forum on sustainable development  meets in New York to debate progress on … of how an integrated approach to reducing poverty and the sustainable use of natural resources can help us meet the challenges of sustainable development and poverty eradication. The meeting heard how, …
Insight, 17 July 2017
The journey to fetch fresh water for a resident of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India (Photo: Meena Kadri, Creative Commons via Flickr)
World Water Week 2016: key resources
… relating to water across the globe. This year's theme is 'Water for Sustainable Growth', with water seen as central to all the challenges at … further, Ina Porres, senior researcher in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group , discussed in her blog for World Water Day  how the United …
Article, 24 August 2016
Pre-emptive controlled burning in Belize is preventing severe uncontrolled wild fires during the driest months (Photo: Toledo Institute for Development and Environment)
Flaming parrots and palmetto palms
… . The idea is basically this. The greater the commercial returns from sustainable forest use, the greater the incentive to protect the forests … safeguard the Popta for harvesting. So provided this can be done in a sustainable way, business development and the conservation of … researcher in the forest team within IIED's Natural Resources Group . …
Insight, 08 February 2016