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Haramata Communications Initiative
Article, 13 October 2008
LDCs can use the example of Brazil, which has achieved a drastic fall in emissions thanks to avoided deforestation, to see what is possible despite limited economic capacity. Pictured is deforestation for the use of clay in Rio de Janeiro (Photo via Wikipedia Commons)
Climate action: Diplomats' discussions yield four themes for 2014
Insight, 04 June 2014
people sit as desks looking forward at photos pinned on a wall.
Rainfall, grazing, families and land in Dlonguebougou
… exceptionally wet year It's certainly been an exceptionally wet year. Our rainfall gauge, bought last May, shows the total rainfall for this … ( [email protected] )  is a senior fellow at IIED. This work is possible thanks to the Open Society Foundations , which provided …
Insight, 09 November 2016
The opening session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) begins in Bonn, Germany, on 31 August, 2015 (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The tough journey on the road to Paris: addressing the needs of the most vulnerable
Insight, 02 September 2015
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PLA 49: Decentralisation and community-based planning
… PLA 49 also includes more general articles, Tips for Trainers, and our usual In Touch section, which includes book reviews, events, and …
Article, 31 March 2004
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PLA 61: Tales of shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa
… Ashley are co-editors of Participatory Learning and Action. This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons … sanitation through behaviour change communication. Interact within our new social networking platform Engaging children and communities in … useful case studies, videos and publications about their CLTS work. STEPS Centre Water and Sanitation STEPS is a global research and …
Article, 01 November 2010
Street food: the debate on food security must adapt to consider how consumption and urbanisation are transforming rural spaces and economies, food systems and food security (Photo: Cecilia Tacoli/IIED)
If food security is the answer, is it time to change the question?
… areas than in the countryside, it is far from uniformly accessible. Work by the African Food Security Urban Network shows that in Southern … gaps relative to the evolving relationship between rural and urban. Our project will take food consumption as the entry point to fill these …
Insight, 23 February 2015
Men sitting on railway tracks with roosters. Sucat Railway Community, Manila, Philippines.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
… of civil society on key debates and high-level policy processes (see our series of three booklets on the MDGs for examples and further … developing countries’ debt problems. Develop decent and productive work for youth. In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide … what IIED and partners have learned about local institutions that work and their critical role in achieving real and lasting improvements …
Project, 30 April 2008
Boat surrounded by vegetation growing in the water near the river port of Vallemi.
Will Payments for Watershed Services fuel the protection of ecosystem services?
… achieve environmental success along with lessons accumulated since our first review in 2002 . In practice, monitoring PWS tends to fall in …
Insight, 21 June 2013
Women selling fish in Nyakrom, Central Ghana. The food economy is the largest informal sector in West Africa (Photo: aripeskoe2, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green grows the informal economy
… often least visible – part of the economy: the informal economy .  Our event with partners on ' The biggest 'private sector': what place …
Insight, 10 March 2016