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Some of the publications published by IIED during 2017 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2017: publications
… Almost 7,000 publications can be found and downloaded from our Publications Library  free of charge in PDF format, but below we … please contact us . Here is our top 10 for 2017: Delivering real change: getting international climate finance to the local level With … need to introduce reforms early on that will shift their economies' focus to help protect people's jobs and livelihoods from the damaging …
Article, 28 December 2017
GWI influence - access and rights to irrigated land - planting rice - Selingue dam - Mali
Global Water Initiative: Mali
… (US$5.5 million) i.e. 15% of the country's agricultural budget GWI focus dam: Sélingué (completed 1981) Water for agriculture (2013-17) … analysis across all three countries. Agricultural advisory services Our research on the issues faced by rice-producing smallholders has … and compliance with construction time frames.   We fostered a change in hygiene behaviour among a significant proportion of …
Project, 16 February 2018
Women cross a river
Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight
… than many other forms of forest stewardship. A deeper analytical focus on the means by which SFM can deliver more for IPLCs, to find … the last hope for forests – and for the people who depend on them.  Our new report – ' Unseen foresters: an assessment of approaches for … Paris climate agreement, and New York Declaration on Forests suggest change is needed for a cleaner, fairer future. The calls to ‘build back …
Insight, 14 July 2020
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2016 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2016: publications
… be downloaded free of charge in PDF format. You can also search all our publications, both formal published works and informal literature, from our Publications Library , which in 2016 was upgraded to be faster and … migration . The Urban Matters blog focuses on urban poverty, climate change in cities and rural-urban linkages. Informality and inclusive …
Article, 02 January 2017
Esther Msafiri demonstrates using electricity for oil pressing in Njombe region, Tanzania (Photo: Sarah Best/IIED)
Powering local development in Tanzania
… the local economy.  Research published by IIED and Hivos as part of our Tanzania Energy Change Lab initiative found impressive innovation in promoting PUE in … in building local businesses' demand for power? Grants should not focus on quantity (number of businesses created or connected) but on …
Insight, 24 February 2017
COP20 chair Manuel Pulgar Vidal, centre, was highly praised for his efforts to produce the Lima Call for Climate Action
The long and winding road to Paris
News, 19 December 2014
Delegates at the 20th Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) meeting integrate poverty and environmental issues into the global agenda in Edinburgh in late May (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Putting ourselves out of business – forward planning for the PEP
… told the meeting, there's a challenging job to be done before we plan our own funeral. Set up at the 2002 Johannesburg Summit (Rio+10), the … poverty reduction, environmental resource management and climate change.  That relationship and the need for an integrated approach have … and climate, their implementation will require fundamental changes to our approach to development at all levels to achieve zero poverty and …
Insight, 29 June 2015
Close-up image of cotton growing
Q&A: Ready for impact?
… corporate leaders using their immense power to drive real, positive change. And people are scrutinising businesses now more than ever. … to distinguish between ’investing with impact’ – where the primary focus is on achieving a net positive financial rate of return alongside … agendas. LK: Good suggestions Chris and very much in keeping with our new five-year strategy that emphasises dialogues for …
Article, 07 November 2019
A man and woman standing in a field
Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms
… areas and are food producers. The farmers and their general situation Our research took place in the Eastern Region of Burkina Faso. The focus was on two villages in two different communes: Bolontou in Tibga … is not unusual, particularly in a context of climate uncertainty and change, and has led to rapid population growth in towns and cities in …
Article, 26 April 2020
Head and shoulders images
Remembering Nigel Cross and Brian Walker, leading lights of IIED
… Hugo Slim to lead an oral history project called ‘ Listening for a change ’. He recognised clearly that too many development experts seem … programme of work and collaboration. In 2001, he identified climate change as a critical issue and encouraged climate change expert Saleemul … contributions to the hugely significant Brundtland Commission report ‘Our Common Future’ and developed world class research programmes on …
Insight, 16 October 2019