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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 1 Wealth ranking in Swaziland: a method to identify the poorest
… group itself is highly involved in the implementation I will describe our experience with wealth and at times identification and evaluation …
Publication, 01 January 1988
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 5 Participatory Rural Appraisal: is it culturally neutral?
… workers. An in-service training was given joined the men and women at work in their jointly to a group of expatriate and host country fields, … PRA process as a programming instrument about the quality of life in our respective for village based workers. In its general form, …
Publication, 01 January 1988
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 3 Rapid food security assessment: a pilot exercise in Sudan
… and characteristics of food insecurity: a procedure I have dubbed Our task in Sudan was to support food security `Rapid Food Security …
Publication, 01 January 1988
Woman selling vegetables
Agricultural contracts and farmer agency: a shift in perspective
… with key terms determined by contracts they are not party to. In our report, we develop the notion of 'contracting chains' to describe … and programmes should support farmers’ own efforts. Contracts work should take farmers, not agribusiness, as its entry point, and …
Insight, 16 May 2021
Occupy London protestors outside St Paul's Cathedral.
Statistics: The middle tells you nothing about the extremes
… lies, and statistics.” Two examples of statistics at their devilish work are provided by climate change, and economic growth. First, the … subsidies on renewable energy. The second case examines and questions our measures for economic growth and prosperity. For too long we have … remember that the planet Earth is a complex multi-layered system, and our models can only imperfectly describe how these layers of atmosphere, …
Insight, 24 October 2012
A family at the border crossing between Serbia and Croatia. Some 650,000 migrants and refugees travelled through Croatia between September 2015 and January 2016 (Photo: Meabh Smith/Trócaire, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Responding to transit refugees in Croatia
… context Organisations providing humanitarian assistance seeking to work with local actors during a national crisis response need to … Croatian authorities (local and central), one of the main contentions our research found was between the humanitarian concept of …
Insight, 19 August 2016
The 2015 Development & Climate Days at COP21 will focus on "tough talk on poverty and climate"
2015 Development & Climate Days: tough talk on crucial transitions
… created by Jorge Martin showing the D&C Days discussions on our Flickr site Watch a one-minute video showing how Martin created the …
Event, 23 November 2015
A man stands behind a desk raising an object in the air as he makes a demonstration to people seated in a semi-circle around him.
Which green energy technologies will boost jobs and income? Farmers in Kitui, Kenya decide
… a reliable electricity supply. Power cuts across Kitui are common – our scoping survey found two-thirds of farms connected to the grid … farmers over the longer term. Farmer feedback: why cooperative models work Farmers working in cooperatives is not common in Kitui, with most …
Insight, 06 April 2022
Six representatives of developing country governments – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nepal and the Philippines – shared their experiences of rolling out the sustainable development agenda at the 21st Poverty Environment Partnership meeting (Image: IIED)
Country progress on putting the sustainable development goals into action
… income. The SDGs are a real opportunity to raise awareness among our people about natural resources and environment." …
Insight, 23 June 2016
An Ethiopian farmer demonstrates the the impact of rain shortage on his maize crop (Photo: Dagnachew Belachew via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Connecting the dots: Sharing knowledge to build climate resilient green economies
Insight, 19 February 2014