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IIED Institutional Strategy 2009-14
… IIED's Institutional Strategy sets out our focus on four globally~important challenges in this field:~• tackling the ‘resource squeeze’~• demonstrating climate change policies that work for development~• helping build cities that …
Publication, 01 April 2009
Haramata Communications Initiative
… water resource governance in the Borana lowlands, southern Ethiopia. Focus on... climate change: Copenhagen – what happened?; voices from COP15; climate change: … idea – an example from Namibia; for a world where all of us control our food. Focus on…  The small-town challenges of decentralisation. … Climate change …
Article, 13 October 2008
PLA 46 cover
PLA 46: Participatory processes for policy change
Article, 01 February 2003
Example of Volanta pump in use - note pump parts external to mounting - Niger
Global Water Initiative: Niger
… Planned development of 10,000 hectares of new irrigated land GWI focus dam: Kandadji (under construction), with the objective of … irrigation over 45,000 hectares Water for agriculture (2013-17) Our work in Niger focused on achieving secure land tenure for both the … Access to water: From 2010 to 2012, we observed a significant change with regard to the length of time inhabitants spent fetching …
Project, 16 February 2018
Langrug informal settlement, South Africa, May 2014 (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Introduction to urban poverty
… risk of disasters and with risk levels increasing because of climate change. Most definitions and measurements of poverty take none of the … to the costs of food and non-food needs for urban populations. Our focus for the next five years IIED is working to reduce urban poverty, …
Project, 09 September 2014
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Adapting agriculture with traditional knowledge
… Over the coming decades, climate change is likely to pose a major challenge to agriculture; temperatures … future food security. Strategies to achieve that in practice tend to focus on modern science. But evidence, both old and new, suggests that … agriculture to climate change. Follow the links below for more about our work on Biocultural heritage. …
Publication, 01 October 2011
A group of people working at a table
Learning together boosts confidence and better communications
… everyone. The week brings staff responsible for communications from our partners in the global South to London for a four-day joint workshop … after some busy days – and a couple of evenings – together, off go our partners back to their homes and work. It’s too soon! Conversations … – blogs, articles, possibly a short video on social media – could change the way people think about the decisions they are making; could …
Insight, 22 November 2019
Children using water pump in Burkina Faso
Global Water Initiative: Burkina Faso
… for Sustainable Development of Irrigated Agriculture (PNSR) GWI focus dam: Bagré (completed 1994) During GWI's previous phase of work in … have access to secure land tenure. Agricultural advisory services Our research on the issues faced by rice-producing smallholders – both … sanitation practices, with a view to fostering long-term behavioural change, and Improve knowledge and methods of natural-resource …
Project, 16 February 2018
An image showing two men on the roof of a school in Zambia carrying out a macrosolar installation. Sustainable energy solutions for Least Developed Countries were discussed at the event in London (Photo: Steve Woodward)
Reimagining development in the LDCs: what role for the SDGs?
… the politics of the transformations at the heart of the SDG agenda. Our news report about the meeting describes key contributions and some … the light of last year's global agreements on the SDGs and  climate change , the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the  Sendai Framework for … across the globe to discuss how to ensure the implementation debates focus on the politics of transformation for which the SDGs have created …
Event, 13 June 2016
The 'Diffa; The Morning Light' video is one of a series of videos exploring the impact of climate change on drylands pastoralists (Image: IIED)
Pastoralism videos/Vidéos pastoralisme
Article, 15 June 2011