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Counting the costs: replacing pastoralism with irrigated agriculture in the Awash Valley, north-eastern Ethiopia
Publication, 01 March 2013
A rubber boat carrying around 50 refugees arrives from Bodrum, Turkey to the Greek island of Kos (Photo: Christopher Jahn/IFRC, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
In this war of words, no one is the victor
… World War, with the world facing its highest levels of population displacement – an issue which will not change without a serious … frightening indicator of how we might choose to deal with future mass displacement of people.  The UK is an influential and wealthy country …
Insight, 04 September 2015
A stallholder in front of a food stall
Resilient food systems and COVID-19: lessons for a Just Transition
… workers, displaced people, refugees and people forced off their land by industrial agriculture; women and girls who are often more … and vulnerable people and to address major inequalities in access to land for millions of smallholders across Southern Asia and sub-Saharan …
Insight, 22 May 2020
Example of Volanta pump in use - note pump parts external to mounting - Niger
Global Water Initiative: Niger
… revenues Planned development of 10,000 hectares of new irrigated land GWI focus dam: Kandadji (under construction), with the objective of … agriculture (2013-17) Our work in Niger focused on achieving secure land tenure for both the state and smallholders affected by the … been low over the last two decades, due to a lack of financing and land tenure problems. It is only now starting to grow again. Kandadji …
Project, 16 February 2018
A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber
China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?
… engagement . Even before investments get under way, speculative land deals can create a new political economy around prospective sites – … problems: high-level political manipulation; questionable land titles; large-scale displacement of local communities and indigenous people; high …
Insight, 19 June 2019
Moving right along: climate change and migration
… die in drought-driven famine, or having to fight over forage or land, become displaced within their own country or migrate across …
Insight, 13 December 2009
A person standing looking at steep hillsides with terraced fields.
Loss and damage in Rwanda: a young climate activist reports
… development? Agriculture under threat Rural Rwandans who rely on the land for their food and livelihoods are particularly vulnerable. Not … intensive rainfall destroy crops, it also impacts soil fertility. Land degradation affects the whole community, diminishing incomes and …
Insight, 03 September 2020
Top blogs of 2018
Best of 2018: blogs
… the revised water masterplan in Botswana, forest policy in the UK, land use planning in Rwanda, for example. 8 How tackling climate change …
Article, 27 December 2018
Skyline view of a city with houses and short buildings in the front and skyscrapers in the background.
Q&A: Citizen participation in planning − from the neighbourhood to the city
… NGOs, donors and government authorities, social mobilisation around land, housing or resource distribution is highly contested, and … on co-designing built interventions with children affected by displacement (DeCID) , which includes links and references to many …
Article, 10 December 2021
Ibadan, Nigeria, a city that has experienced devastating high winds and flooding (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
How risk accumulates in African cities – and ways to break the cycle
… for business and decreased journey times, but the huge amount of land required for its construction has displaced settlements and … cities at their very core.  Many are predominantly informal – in land access, economic activity and decision-making. These informal …
Insight, 30 January 2017