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Two women carrying farming tools
IIED's best of 2019: videos
… their land rights that included six videos to help give a more human and personal insight into how the voices of rural women in local …
Insight, 06 January 2020
In Durban, a day to focus on climate communication
News, 19 December 2011
IIED director Camilla Toulmin enjoys the 12th D&C Days event at COP20 in Lima, Peru (Photo; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change
… from the climate change group, communications, natural resources and human settlements who provide support, ideas and organisation for a …
Insight, 11 December 2014
Gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
Uganda: Can a gorilla park deliver more benefits to local people?
… to communicate better to a non-specialist audience, and to find human interest angles that can aid the media in making conservation …
Insight, 26 July 2013
The Mahila Housing SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association of India) Trust offers savings, loans and micro credit schemes (Photo: Shack/Slum Dwellers International, Creative Commons via Flickr)
People power: the urban poor are now a force to be reckoned with
… from the International Institute for Environment and Development's Human Settlement's group encouraged the Department for International …
Insight, 17 October 2011
Timbuktu, Mali: A woman pours water from an irrigation canal onto her garden. Mali's climate-resilient agricultural plan will promote better irrigation systems (Photo: Marco Dormino/MINUSMA)
Least developed country leaders say "follow us" to tackle climate change
… They are developing ambitious green plans despite their poverty, weak human assets and high economic vulnerability to disasters.   The LDCs …
Insight, 06 October 2014
International days are used to promote awareness and action on important topics. But how does IIED engage with them? (Image: IIED)
Seizing the day without falling off the bandwagon
… online library, pointed people towards a job vacancy as head of our Human Settlements Group  (posted the previous day), drew attention to a …
Insight, 19 November 2015
Gates Foundation gives US$10 million to help urban poor improve living conditions
… pay little attention to urban poverty," says Diana Mitlin of IIED's Human Settlements Group. "And when they do, it is to finance …
News, 22 November 2007
Are small-scale farmers there to feed themselves and large-scale farmers there to feed the world? Credit: Flickr/Peter Casier
Can small-scale farmers feed the world?
… and the Right to Food , presented by de Schutter to the UN Human Rights Council, supports Gonçalves claim that small-scale farming …
Insight, 15 March 2011
A man points to a wild chimpanzee up a tree
Markets and payments for environmental services
… Uganda are under threat as their habitat is lost to agriculture and human settlements. Central to this problem is the attitude of most …
Project, 03 October 2008