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Images such as this of a culvert constructed to allow villagers to cross the River Mahenya in Kenya, but which proves insufficient at times of extreme rainfall, are often used to tell the story of climate change in Africa. But Fatima Denton will challenge that narrative in her Barbara Ward Lecture (Photo: Robin Wyatt, http://www.robinwyatt.org/photography/)
Room for optimism on Africa, the "hopeful" continent
… Their great intellect, combined with a strong commitment to achieve human progress, and their ability to influence key people and debates, …
Insight, 21 October 2014
A fishing boat and cruise liner cross paths outside Zakynthos Harbour (Photo: Robert Wallace, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The blue economy and maritime security in Africa: why now?
… threat off the coast of Somalia, but elsewhere illegal fishing, human and drug trafficking, slavery, dumping of waste, or natural …
Insight, 13 October 2016
Street scene of small shops and a rickshaw in a city in South India.
BRICS urbanisation provides lessons for economic growth and social equity
… Gordon McGranahan, IIED [email protected] Ivan Turok, Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa) [email protected] …
News, 05 December 2012
A view over a large township
Internal and international influences on urban change
… do.   We do not know how and when it will be under control and what human and economic costs are still to come, although we already see huge …
Insight, 27 May 2020
Women harvesting brinjal near the Indian city of Gorakhpur. Peri-urban agriculture helps to ensure local food supplies, especially of fruit and vegetables (Photo: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group)
Farming on the city's periphery to enhance resilience
… boundaries and the rural administrative set-up does not have the human or financial resources to upgrade infrastructure and develop …
Insight, 09 June 2015
An aerial view of London. Southwark, on the left, is surprisingly undense (Photo: David, Bergin, Emmett and Elliott, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
How can compact cities keep house prices under control?
… ([email protected]) is senior researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group and senior economist with the Coalition …
Insight, 14 September 2017
Don't blame cities for climate change, see them as solutions
… Change to show that only two-fifths of all greenhouse gases from human activities are generated within cities. Agriculture and …
News, 25 September 2008
Fishermen from Mayadip Island, Bangladesh. IIED will be discussing Bangladesh's work on payments for sustainable fisheries at the EDD15 forum (Photo: Matthew Becker, the Advocacy Project, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at European Development Days 2015
… right: why is it important to understand the complex biophysical and human systems of the fishery? Debate: Sharing the load: public and …
Event, 03 June 2015
International experts on gender and employment participating in an IIED gender workshop in 2014 (Photo: Lucille Robinson/IIED)
Gender in the workplace: do families always have to lose out?
… livelihoods, their access to resources (financial, technologies and human capital). We seek to understand how they can transform and improve …
Insight, 15 May 2015
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… The 'foundations for development' –  i.e. security, infrastructure, human capital - the basics that any production system needs to thrive.  …
News, 27 April 2015