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Demonstrating the use of alternative building materials at the Jinja Building Materials Training Centre, Uganda. (Photo: David Dodman)
Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience
… and communities in the future. David Dodman is a senior researcher in IIED's human settlements group ( david.dodman@iied.org ). The project is funded by UK aid from the UK Government, …
Insight, 17 March 2014
Woman waters field with a hose.
The Green Climate Fund: time to shift focus to locally led adaptation
Insight, 17 August 2020
A hippo emerges from the Zambezi near the Mana Pools Wildlife Conservation Area in northern Zimbabwe (Photo: Terry Feuerborn, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Biodiversity stories: building understanding in the media leads to richer reporting
… 2012 Stories of change: mainstreaming biodiversity and development , IIED and UNEP-WCMC (2015), IIED tool …
Article, 21 March 2016
NGOs: friend or foe to markets for the poor?
… The latest ‘provocation’ seminar from IIED and Hivos, held in Paris last week (30 March), began by asking who … or shea butter, which only impact a very small number of producers. IIED researcher Lila Buckley spoke about working with a Chinese NGO to …
Insight, 06 April 2011
Cover for G02151.pdf
An Activist Approach to Biodiversity Planning
… India's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan Tejaswini Apte IIED, 2005 ISBN 1 84369 548 0 India has been one of the first countries …
Publication, 01 December 2005
West African farmers heard at UK Houses of Parliament
… juries, carried out previously in West Africa and facilitated by IIED researchers and partners, have revealed that much African … right of food, who chaired the workshop in Accra, Ghana, commended IIED on its: “Bottom up ” approach to agricultural research which was a …
Insight, 04 February 2012
A new sanitation block being constructed in Kibera settlement, Nairobi, Kenya. Most of Kibera's residents don't have access to electricity or running water (Photo: Sustainable Sanitation, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Finance for whom and for what?
… likely to be done by 2030. David Satterthwaite ( david.satterthwaite@iied.org ) is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements Group and leads the team on urban poverty and …
Insight, 31 March 2015
CCAFS, together with partners, is trying to develop new ways to communicate climate change adaptation. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT)
New ways to communicate climate change and adaptation - is it time for something “loopy”?
… (IDS) ,  International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the University of York to stimulate a new discussion in the … security. This approach was the focus of a discussion paper by IDS, IIED and the University of York presented at the conference and now …
Insight, 19 October 2012
The cover and an extract from the book 'Valuing variability – new perspectives on climate resilient drylands development'' (Image: IIED)
Pastoralism less impacted by climate change than industrial farming
… by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and launched in the Kenyan parliament earlier this year, argues …
News, 25 September 2015
Cover for G01919.pdf
Tips for trainers - Pairing of proverbs to find your partner
… jointly undertaken by SOS Sahel/GB and the Drylands Programme of IIED.~The exercise breaks down language barriers and initial feelings of …
Publication, 01 October 2000