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Resource scouts such as Abdelkader, pictured in the Ewaso Ng'iro river bed, Isiolo County, gauge how best to use dry-season grazing areas (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)
The economics of local adaptation in the dryland ecosystems of Isiolo County
Insight, 22 April 2015
Cover for G00374.pdf
Towards an enabling environment for small and medium forest enterprise development
… support increased value adding, and promote the formation of human, social, physical and financial capital for effective forest and …
Publication, 01 January 2006
Cover for G00039.pdf
IIED & nef round-table discussion: Can Voluntary Carbon Offsets Assist Development?
… 2001a:379); and adaptation, which "refers to adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or …
Publication, 01 October 2006
A field team designing a REDD strategy in Mozambique talk to farmer Nimale Maribu Saidi as part of their research (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
What happened when IIED focused on research quality?
… more sustainable world. David Dodman is a senior researcher in IIED's human settlements group ( [email protected] ) Download Research …
Insight, 13 March 2014
A new sanitation block being constructed in Kibera settlement, Nairobi, Kenya. Most of Kibera's residents don't have access to electricity or running water (Photo: Sustainable Sanitation, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Finance for whom and for what?
… is left behind". Ensure gender equality, promote and protect all human rights, including the right to development... And all this in the … ( [email protected] ) is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements Group and leads the team on urban poverty and local …
Insight, 31 March 2015
Cover for G02665.pdf
Climate change and health in Zambia
… a baseline analysis of the actual and potential adverse impacts on human health of climate variability/change and the coping strategies …
Publication, 01 January 2008
Jockin Arputham, who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014, gives HRH Prince Charles an insight into urban development issues and a tour of Dharavi (Photo: SPARC)
Slum dwellers nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
… world is dramatic. Slum populations, according to the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN Habitat), are currently growing by a … Davis and military agencies like the Pentagon? How can they add human development perspectives to a military analysis that seems weak on …
News, 13 February 2014
A focus group ranks in order motivations for unauthorised resource use as part of the R2P research, at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Fairness can address the resentment that drives hunting in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
… are shared, more national park-related jobs for local people, reduced human-wildlife conflict and efforts to promote sustainable use of …
News, 17 September 2014
Major deposit in biodiversity bank to protect future of food
News, 22 February 2011
Cover for 9128IIED.pdf
Summary of Durban’s Local Agenda 21 Programme, A: The sustainable development challenge
… in a lack of proactive and sustained political support. The lack of human and financial resources has restricted the programme's capacity to …
Publication, 01 January 2002