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Ruth Nguli looks at her crop of drought-tolerant beans in Makueni County, Kenya. Developing and sharing climate-smart farming techniques can help communities adapt to climate changes (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How do we measure adaptation?
Insight, 11 March 2015
Settlement in Solomon Islands.
How climate change losses could open the Solomon Islands’ old wounds
Insight, 25 November 2020
Wilton Park is the venue for a conference on sustainable development goals from January 29-31 (Photo: Wilton Park)
Post-2015 development framework: priorities for LDCs – coverage from Wilton Park
… and fair global set of goals for environmental sustainability and human development. Independent Research Forum IIED is part of an …
Event, 29 January 2015
Meeting of the Ogiek community of Sasimwani to review their draft by-laws (Photo: Namati/Jaron Vogelsang)
Using community by-laws to secure customary land rights in Kenya
… People's Development Program. His work is devoted to defending the human rights of his people, the Ogiek, and other indigenous peoples. …
Event, 16 November 2018
Mecati Forest, Mozambique: a group of charcoal producers clear trees and prepare to make charcoal. Each year more than eight million bags of charcoal are produced by Mozambique's informal sector (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
The informal economy and sustainable development
… associate it with lost revenue, unfair competition, low productivity, human rights abuses and environmental degradation; while others …
Project, 20 January 2016
Cover for G01069.pdf
Protecting traditional knowledge: a framework based on customary laws and biocultural heritage
… one based on respect for indigenous customary laws and worldviews and human rights. In this way, we also seek to strengthen the institutional …
Publication, 01 October 2006
A block of unfinished buildings, open to the elements
A world without refugee camps? IIED launches research on urban refugees
… communities – are able to meet their basic needs and exercise their human rights in a sustainable way, without reliance on humanitarian …
Insight, 06 April 2020
A basket full of coal taken illegally from an open-cast mine near the village of Bokapahari, India where a community of coal scavengers live and work © G. M. B. Akash / Panos Pictures
How to use law to make foreign investment work for sustainable development
… investment treaties, extractive industry legislation, land tenure, human rights norms, environmental legislation and tax law —including …
News, 22 November 2013
Cover for G00171.pdf
Land in Africa: Market Asset or Secure Livelihood Conference London, November 8-9, 2004 Session on Gender, Land Rights and Inheritance
… on Gender, Land Rights and Inheritance Comments by Cherryl Walker Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa BACKGROUND My comments …
Publication, 01 November 2004
Cover for G00175.pdf
Security Of Tenure In Urban Africa: Where Are We, And Where Do We Go From Here
… critical and a sensitive one. UN-HABITAT's global mandate covers all human settlement, although we are often known as the agency for cities. …
Publication, 01 November 2004