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Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: from local to global and back
Publication, 01 January 2007
A shot from the Herding Chaos film made by Saverio Krätli
Niger: Pastoral livelihoods and climate change adaptation
… Field research by IIED with support from the Secrétariat Permanent du Code Rural, Niger …
Project, 17 December 2012
Can the forest biomass boom be made sustainable?
… IIED is supporting the 2nd Annual Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability … its role as the major player in the renewable energy sector. A recent IIED report Bundles of energy: The case for renewable biomass energy … clean energy. Duncan Macqueen, co-author of the report and leader of IIED's Forest Team, will explore in the conference the potential impacts …
News, 03 May 2011
Slash and burn, pictured in the Mopeia district, Zambezia province, Mozambique, has a noble motive – feeding families - but it is not sustainable (Photo: Isilda Nhantumbo/IIED)
REDD+: missionaries, conservation fortresses and the politics of carbon landscapes in Africa
… the book provide some pointers. Isilda Nhantumbo  ( Isilda.Nhantumbo@iied.org ) is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . Further resources: IIED senior researcher Isilda Nhantumbo opened the event by introducing …
Insight, 23 December 2015
A Chinese journalist interviews fellow journalists in Kenya (Photo: YiDe Media)
China-Africa relations: Fresh perspectives from Chinese journalists on environmental challenges
… To help close these knowledge gaps, IIED sponsored five Chinese journalists' travel to Kenya in February … and to educate the Chinese public about their overseas impacts. At IIED, we work to promote sustainable and socially beneficial forms of … crucial steps toward the right direction. Xue Weng is a researcher at IIED ( xiaoxue.weng@iied.org ). A list of stories produced (in Chinese …
Insight, 02 May 2014
Farmers in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces in Southwestern China have responded to climatic adversity by innovating to increase productivity using less water (Image: IIED)
Why listen to and support the most vulnerable?
Insight, 02 October 2015
Low-cost solar lanterns enable a boy to study at home in the small village of Shidhulai in the Natore District of northwestern Bangladesh (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Universal energy access: combining public and private sector efforts
… Also, as part of our efforts to build understanding and dialogue, IIED is joining the Overseas Development Institute and the Institute of … . If you are interested in joining the debate, email  emma.wilson@iied.org . Read the full report:   Sharing the Load: public and private … roles in financing pro-poor energy access Emma Wilson ( emma.wilson@iied.org ) is a principal researcher in IIED's Sustainable Markets Group …
Insight, 30 September 2014
A satellite phone provided by Télécoms Sans Frontières, with European Commission funding, enables a man from Tanna island to finally talk to loved ones ten days after communications were cut off by Cyclone Pam in March 2015 (Photo: TSF, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Finance, Addis and the Sustainable Development Goals
News, 07 July 2015
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PLA 55: Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa
Publication, 01 December 2006
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Protecting indigenous knowledge against biopiracy in the Andes
Publication, 01 December 2006