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A researcher speaks to a cotton farmer in Mozambique.
Our research: striving towards excellence
… – with potentially harmful consequences. Organizations, like IIED, which aim to produce policy-relevant research have a … brings new challenges and opportunities. Some of the challenges IIED faces include:  working within complex political situations and … quickly to respond to policy-making windows. Over the last few years, IIED staff and partners have been working together to identify the key …
Insight, 13 September 2012
Brazil's favelas are a legacy of a more passive resistance reflecting an unwillingness to plan for anticipated population growth (Photo: Chris Jones, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Exploring inclusive urbanisation and other migration crises
… are key issues that will be addressed at a workshop co-hosted by IIED, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the  United Nations … laws and planning be made more inclusive? As noted in a recent IIED study , South Africa's fragmented cities are a legacy of how … priorities for action.  Gordon McGranahan (gordon.mcgranahan@iied.org) is principal researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group and …
Insight, 28 October 2015
Somali and Boran pastoralists came together to discuss ways to share water resources at a meeting this month. (Credit: James Pattison)
Kenya: The importance of cross-border dialogue in the drylands
… from the Boran’s strategic grazing reserves. It was timely, then, for IIED and the Resource Advocacy Programme to hold a meeting in Isiolo (on … of Kenya and beyond.   James Pattison is a consultant working with IIED on drylands development and climate change adaptation, under a project led by Ced Hesse (ced.hesse@iied.org). The meeting was part of a Department for International …
Insight, 19 March 2014
Women demonstrating
How community mapping of storm water drains is fighting evictions in Karachi’s informal settlements
… This is the latest in a series of blogs and interviews , curated by IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite, examining different aspects of … showing the Manzoor Colony nala system. The full map is available on IIED's Flickr site . The mapping of the Manzoor Colony nala has prompted …
Insight, 24 March 2021
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Browsing on fences. Pastoral land rights, livelihoods and adaptation to climate change
Publication, 01 May 2008
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Fuelling exclusion? The biofuels boom and poor people's access to land
Publication, 01 May 2008
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Land and decentralisation in Senegal
Publication, 01 May 2008
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Springing back: climate resilience at Africa’s grassroots
Publication, 01 May 2008
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Curbing UK impacts on global biodiversity: an agend for action
Publication, 01 May 2008
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Entangled in the web of life: biodiversity and the media
Publication, 01 May 2008