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Renewable energy has a place to play in providing energy access to small farms (Photo via Google reuse rights))
Calling all energy and agriculture experts: meet, talk and collaborate
… power. Success stories are often cheap, simple technologies like human powered treadle pumps used for irrigation, which avoid the need …
Insight, 29 April 2014
Women learning how to install and maintain solar home systems in the rural town of Bogra, northern Bangladesh (Photo: ILO, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Five challenges for Least Developed Countries in the post-2015 era
… ways forward. But such political spaces are shrinking in many LDCs. Human rights violations are common. And the initial excitement around …
Insight, 28 June 2016
Cebu, Phillipines
6th World Urban Forum: will the agenda of slum and shack dwellers ever get considered?
… week; its theme was The Urban Future. Organized by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) , it included an official …
Insight, 07 September 2012
Annual report 2009/10
… law. The next frontier for the foundation: implementation. Human settlements Extraordinary influence:  the IIED journal Environment …
Page, 21 October 2010
Men sitting on railway tracks with roosters. Sucat Railway Community, Manila, Philippines.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
… of poverty reduction and pro-poor growth, one that vigorously places human development at the centre of social and economic progress in all …
Project, 30 April 2008
Houses teeter on the edge of a river in Indonesia.
Beyond the Millennium Development Goals
… Satterthwaite co-authored with Diana Mitlin, acting head of IIED’s Human Settlements Group, on Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and …
Insight, 01 August 2012
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
… framework that can both halt biodiversity loss and deliver for human wellbeing.  In this backgrounder published in May, we explored the …
Article, 17 December 2021
Marisa Carmargo presents approaches to equity in forest governance: Lessons for safeguard development at an event at COP20 in Lima (Photo: Donal Yeang via Flickr)
Why the private sector must be included in efforts to curb deforestation
… Feynman once said: "We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But …
Insight, 05 December 2014
Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
IIED's best of 2015: blogs
… Korea. Guest blogger Loan Diep and David Dodman, director of IIED's Human Settlements Group, reported on the key issues Where city …
Article, 22 December 2015
Fatima Denton delivers the 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture at the British Library in London in November 2014 (Photo: Julius Honnor/IIED)
2014 Barbara Ward Lecture: Fatima Denton calls for a "new paradigm" for African development
… using a fast lane to address issues that are at the intersection of human security and development." Unlocking agriculture Denton said …
Event, 20 November 2014