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An image showing a group photo of CBA10 field trip group posing for a photo on a rooftop at the end of a long day during which the delegates made visits to four separate projects in Dhaka where communities are adapting to climate change (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
CBA10 field trips: adaptation in practice
… particular challenges when it comes to dealing with climate change. Our field trip began in the western part of the city, in Mohammadpur, … friends, family and neighbours. One student, Lipie, said: "We inform our family about climate issues and how we need to do something as soon … said. "If we don't have oxygen, we cannot survive. We invite our neighbours to come and visit and learn. Nearby there was a house …
Insight, 27 April 2016
A mountain gorilla
Local economic development through gorilla tourism
… from 1,300 per annum in 1993 to around 20,000 in 2016. However our  previous research showed that local people have a negative attitude …
Project, 25 May 2016
A trader wades through knee-high flooded water in a marketplace
Community voices – the climate needs you in COP26 countdown
… institutions – public, private, customary and cultural – will need to work together to help people adapt to the new and escalating risks … so they can fully engage. We will need to consider how to reform our institutions so that greater decision-making power is put in the …
Insight, 28 January 2020
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Remote access: Expanding energy provision in rural Argentina through public-private partnerships and renewable energy. A case study of the PERMER programme
… one of the first provinces to implement PERMER. Find out more about our work on improving people's access to sustainable energy. …
Publication, 01 July 2011
Man cutting a cacao fruit from the tree
Promoting producer agency in food systems – might new global guidelines offer any hope?
… is recognition that to improve the sustainability and nutrition of our food and get food systems right for all, we need more than … could be key to ensuring the markets these critical actors trade in work for them. An agency approach challenges the potentially misdirected … a complex set of global issues that are central to delivering some of our most fundamental rights is challenging – technically and …
Insight, 10 December 2020
A Kenyan woman farmer at work in the Mount Kenya region (Photo: Google licence)
Toulmin: "Soil is the foundation for a prosperous society"
… throws light on a rather neglected topic, which is the ground beneath our feet – the soil on which we grow our crops and which is really the foundation for a prosperous society …
News, 10 December 2014
There is often very little data available about people living in informal settlements such as these along the riverfront in Ahmedabad in India (Photo: Emmanuel Dyan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Is urban development too complicated for us?
… not listening A large international NGO invited me to present on the work of these federations of savings groups at their meeting. There were … But in the wrap-up section detailing what was to guide their work for the next five years, there was no mention of supporting … groups. No one responded. The explanation: sorry but this is not in our strategy. Another large international NGO asked my advice for …
Insight, 17 May 2018
Dr Andrew Norton will take on the role as IIED director from 29 June (Photo: Andrew Norton)
Post-2015 agenda focus for IIED’s new director
… to come. He will play a key role in building on the successful work Toulmin has undertaken with the institute's researchers to position … "I am delighted to have the opportunity to build on the great work Camilla has done with IIED's staff and partners to position the … systems. Toulmin said: "At IIED, we have always believed in getting our hands dirty by listening to and engaging with people to try to find …
News, 23 March 2015
Dialogue participants visited ASM operations (Photo: Mkhululi Nkosilamandla Ncube)
Can ASM lead the Africa Mining Vision?
… wealth/poverty paradox I was at the Tanzania dialogue as part of my work for the ASM workstream at the African Minerals Development Centre … Mining Vision really is. During the debrief and group session after our field trip to Nsangano gold mine in Nyarungusu village, I gave an … that were among the top ten performers in the country.      On our site visit to Rwamgasa we saw how ball-mill crushers are now being …
Insight, 07 December 2017
People in a food market
Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than income
… recent paper we explore contrasting views of wellbeing in Mozambique. Our interest reflects the country’s controversial track record. From the … narrative, a range of bottom-up studies of poverty , including our own, have been conducted by anthropologists in different parts of … arises. A main finding that emerges from the anthropological work is that we cannot see the poor without seeing the better-off. Local …
Insight, 29 August 2019