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A NEW ERA IN International SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
… DEVELOPMENT 2007 Institute for · Environment and Development An IIED Briefing Steve Bass, Senior Fellow, IIED "Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that …
Publication, 01 January 2007
Seed industry and UN agency ignore traditional ways to protect biodiversity and knowledge
… change because of growing corporate control of the seeds they plant. IIED’s research with partners in China, India, Kenya, Panama and Peru … knowledge, and to govern how the benefits from their use are shared. IIED and partners say this delay is accelerating the loss of …
News, 09 November 2009
Hội An, Vietnam: in many towns in the developing world, street vendors constitute a significant share of total employment in the informal economy (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green economy must work for street vendors as well as Wall Street
… by the planned low carbon, green economy changes. Experts from IIED , the GEC , Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and … with governments to make their green economies work for everyone." IIED and the GEC would like to see green growth action plans explicitly …
News, 24 February 2016
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Successes and struggles of loan finance in supporting housing and infrastructure development in low-income communities.
Publication, 01 September 2001
People living amid the arid terrain of Wajir in Kenya will benefit from the expansion of a pilot project (Photo: Oxfam East Africa via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Kenyan local climate fund's success heralds expansion to 29% of nation
News, 24 January 2014
A sunset in rural Mali: a new day is dawning towards securing the land rights of rural communities (Photo: Kurt Paterson, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: How a new law in Mali is securing villagers' rights to land
… Sciences P‎olitiques et Juridiques  and a long-time collaborator of IIED. In the interview, they discuss a historic new agricultural land … Good luck with your next steps! Camilla Toulmin (camilla.toulmin@iied.org) is a senior fellow in IIED's Climate Change research group . …
Article, 10 August 2017
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What does the Feminisation of Labour Mean for Sustainable Livelihoods?
Publication, 01 August 2001
A new agenda for consumption
… propose solutions of 'less consumption' or 'different consumption'. IIED has added to these debates with the (embryonic) notion of 'fair … distribution of the impacts of consumption among global society. What IIED did The project aimed to address consumption issues among poorer …
Project, 02 October 2008
Weighing sacks of coffee beans in Colombia's southwestern Cauca department (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT)
Environmental Funds: sustainable finance for conservation
… can be done to help this approach gain even more traction? I applaud IIED's recently published Review of Conservation Trust Funds for … stories of the lives these funds help transform. Hopefully a future IIED paper will be able to share these success stories, as well as the … Fondo Acción, Colombia from May 2009 through December 2011. Read the IIED publication A review of conservation trust funds for sustainable …
Insight, 23 July 2014
Employees work deep within a tunnel at the Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village in Geita District, Tanzania in March 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
Laying the foundations for a dialogue series on artisanal and small-scale mining
… a series of interviews which can be viewed below and in a playlist on IIED's YouTube channel . … Gold mining: the search for common ground '. Before the end of 2015, IIED will return to the Geita community to share what was produced from …
Project, 24 June 2015