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Cover for G03420.pdf
Barefoot lawyers: Defending community resource rights in the Philippines
… is as elusive as it is expensive. This paper has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project.~The CPLT tool was …
Publication, 01 August 2012
UN agency ignores indigenous approach to knowledge protection
… June) by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The findings come ahead of a meeting of the World Intellectual … to inventions such as drugs developed by private companies,” says IIED’s Krystyna Swiderska who coordinated the research in Africa, Asia … through, for instance, sharing climate-resilient plant varieties. IIED and partner organisations in India, China, Panama, Peru and Kenya …
News, 29 June 2009
Physical barriers have been installed around Karachi to protect the city from violent conflict, but their impacts have been publically disruptive and socially divisive (Photo: Noman Ahmed and colleagues)
Barricading Karachi: how private security contributes to dividing the city
… unemployment, inequality and ethno-political tensions. But, as a new IIED working paper explores , external factors are also to blame for … and much of its violence. A forthcoming workshop will be hosted by IIED's partners at the NED University of Engineering and Technology in … in practice. Donald Brown ( [email protected] ) is a consultant in IIED's Human Settlements Group and PhD candidate at the Bartlett …
Insight, 01 December 2015
Discussing climate resilience in Kinna, northern Kenya.
How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway?
Insight, 06 December 2012
Cover for 5337IIED.pdf
Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa
Publication, 01 March 1997
Cover for G00475.pdf
Human Settlements Group: Staff articles, working papers, books and reports. 2002
… working papers, books and reports, including those published outside IIED 2002 …
Publication, 01 January 2002
Women bends over a field.
Locally-led nature-based solutions can deliver global leaders’ pledge
… at its heart.   Learning from the LDCs Strong evidence collated by IIED and partners shows that nature-based solutions (NbS), when done …
Insight, 27 September 2021
A community forest in Ethiopia.Credit: Growing Forest Partnerships
Local control of forests brings economic, environmental and social gains
… The book, to be launched at IIED’s Fair ideas conference in Rio de Janeiro on 17 June , makes the … and partnerships," says Duncan Macqueen, Forest Team leader at IIED. "We cannot afford to ignore practical and fair solutions such as …
News, 13 June 2012
Cover for 6115IIED.pdf
PLA Notes 28: Methodological Complementarity
Publication, 01 February 1997
Cover for G03470.pdf
Tipping the Balance: Policies to shape agricultural investments and markets in favour of small-scale farmers
… both women and men, while respecting the environment? Oxfam and IIED collaborated on research to take a new look at the role of public …
Publication, 01 December 2012