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Cover for G01537.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Editorial
… agents included in this special issue. Over the past 18 months, the Human The papers are more about raising crucial Settlements and …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Cover for G01542.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 5 Participatory needs assessment in the peri-urban areas of Lusaka, Zambia
… in Zambia. Since then most Zambians improvement through FFW - to a human have been having a tough time. The purchasing development process …
Publication, 01 January 1994
MMSD – working papers
… access to information through the mining life cycle working No. 9 Human rights in the minerals industry No. 12 Armed conflict and natural … for community maintenance during and after mine closure No. 182 Human rights and the mining sector in Indonesia: a Baseline study No. … October – 30 November 2001 ) No. 222 Report of the experts meeting on human rights issues in the mining and minerals sector, offices of …
Article, 04 March 2009
Publications covers collage
IIED's best of 2019: publications
… from clean air and water to medicines and secure food supplies. Yet human activities are destroying biodiversity around 1,000 times faster … Marine biodiversity and ecosystems provide important benefits to human societies through fisheries. But the benefits are not shared …
Article, 23 December 2019
A market stall. According to recent studies, 75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species (Photo: Hivos)
Cooking for our future
Insight, 20 February 2019
IIED senior fellow Saleemul Huq addresses the CBA8 conference (Photo: Stephanie Andrei)
Can voodoo help to resolve climate change?
… and important. This is not a pat on the back, recognition simply of human capabilities in corners great and small. This is a call to action. …
Insight, 09 May 2014
Chronic air pollution is part of everyday life for many people in China. This photo shows Anyang, the most northern city of China's Henan province (Photo: V.T. Polywoda, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Critical theme: China pollution, social media and politics
… politics and practice . He was previously departmental lecturer in human geography of China at the University of Oxford. In 2013, he …
Event, 16 March 2015
A Congolese vendor sells handkerchiefs on the pavement in central Kampala. Congolese refugees dispersed throughout the city often lack the social and economic support networks necessary to find work or to start a business (Photo: William Monteith/IIED)
Refugee livelihoods in Ugandan cities: mind the gap between policy and practice
… Monteith ([email protected]) is a researcher with IIED's Human Settlements research group. …
Insight, 22 March 2017
Rainforest logged to make way for palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Deforestation for agribusiness is destroying habitats and the ecosystems upon which local communities depend (Photo: David Gilbert/RAN, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Law and political economy of the global resource squeeze: can action rise to the challenge?
… and resource disputes. Indigenous peoples have successfully relied on human rights treaties to challenge commercial concessions in their … primarily consider land and resources as commercial assets, while human rights law recognises more fully their socio-economic, cultural …
Article, 04 March 2019
Rosebell Kagumire was among the delegates at the conference discussing the post-2015 development framework: priorities for the least developed countries, in late January (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Media missing from UN drive to engage millions on post-2015 development agenda
… until about five years later that many journalists begun covering human development issues within the context of that framework. Many …
Insight, 04 February 2014