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A road full of congested traffic.
IIED and partner events at the World Urban Forum (WUF10)
… intersects with climate change, natural disasters, conflict and displacement – and is a critical lens through which to review efforts to … David Dodman, director of IIED's Human Settlements research group Displacement in cities: what we need to know and innovative solutions to … Vision International Speakers: Scott Lloyd (moderator), Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre; Aline Rahbany, World Vision …
Event, 08 February 2020
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… teaching and learning activities. Website  | Project page Protracted displacement in an urban world 2020 - ongoing Comparing the experiences … across Cameroon to improve customary and formal rights to land and natural resources through piloting land governance innovations at the local level and contributing to …
Page, 30 September 2022
Houses on stilts at the side of water, with trees behind
30x30 – a brave new dawn or a failure to protect people and nature?
… in the myth perpetuated by many Western-trained conservationists that land prized for charismatic biodiversity is unoccupied wilderness. … Basin that found human rights violations in at least a half of them, displacement of local people in 26 of them, and almost no evidence of … seek to avoid making necessary changes to business models by making land-based investments in countries where land is cheap and tenure …
Insight, 21 October 2021
Mogadishu attracts people from all over the country, making it the second-fastest growing city in the world, with a 4% annual rate of urbanisation growth (Photo: Baron Reznik, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The challenge of finding money to build shelter in Mogadishu’s informal settlements
… and feel safe – these are all basic human needs. With its ongoing displacement crisis, the demand for shelter in Somalia is among the … population. These exorbitant prices are partly due to the value of land, Mogadishu’s scarcest resource, skyrocketing in the last decade. …
Insight, 28 January 2019
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams
… frameworks to grant local populations benefits such as agricultural land, electricity, drinking water, pasture and fisheries.  Following the … affected into deeper poverty or worse, sparking more conflict over land and natural resources. The risk of conflict is not restricted to … Land acquisitions and rights …
News, 16 December 2015
Animation of a two people with bags in front of a building
Youth initiatives, key to tackling climate change loss and damage in Rwanda as captured in IIED’s latest animation
… now a reality in the East African country. Rwandans heavily rely on land for their food and livelihoods, but changing weather patterns … and extreme meteorological shifts now cause profound loss and damage. Land degradation deprives people of their main source of food and … like roads and health centres. These impacts culminate in the displacement of entire communities and the loss of human lives and …
News, 31 March 2021
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Transformative change to reduce deforestation in DRC
… of stakeholders including the smallholder farmers most reliant on the land, and considers food production a legitimate goal alongside …
Publication, 01 July 2019
Phnom Penh: activists, students, monks and community members deliver a petition to Cambodia's National Assembly calling for increased protection for the country's natural resources (Photo: Luon Sovath, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED to host webinar on promoting accountability in agricultural investment chains
… and middle-income countries that want to support communities whose land rights and livelihoods are affected by agricultural … his practical experience in promoting accountability in relation to land concessions in Cambodia. The webinar also saw the launch of a new … and financial institutions accountable for land grabs, forced displacement and related human rights violations. He has represented …
Event, 11 September 2015
People from Kandadji village, which is due to be flooded, meet to discuss resettlement plans.
Niger: Tough questions posed by the Kandadji dam development
… in western Niger. They mostly get by farming millet and rice on land that their parents and grandparents have farmed for generations. … displaced in the process, losing their houses, fields and grazing land to a dam intended to generate 565 GWh of electricity, irrigate … or her family. Resettlement is not an exact science, but the scale of displacement in Niger means a lot of very frustrated and impoverished …
Insight, 19 April 2013
An elderly woman bends over while planting rice
Q&A: Unleashing the potential of forest farmers to address climate change and biodiversity loss
… your members face from climate change, loss of biodiversity and land degradation? Are these challenges getting worse? EP: Two years ago, … strong winds.  Climate change is real. As are biodiversity loss and land degradation – both contributors to a changing climate. … related disasters can spell loss of properties, livelihoods, health, displacement; it can mean hunger and poverty and sickness; it can force …
Article, 03 June 2021