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Central Malawi: Belia Sikelo farms groundnuts using 'conservation agriculture', a set of practices including no-till farming, designed improve soil structure and help resist erosion. (Photo: T. Samson/CIMMYT)
2015: the International Year of Soils
… 25 years, IIED and its partners have gathered evidence and shaped policy, particularly around pastoralism, natural resource management, soil fertility and land … Africa.   We have tried to change the narrative that casts pastoralism as a backward, irrational livelihood that takes place in … Drylands and pastoralism …
Article, 09 April 2015
Man watches a video of elephants on a laptop
IIED online
… nature thrive together, and a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on pastoralism in development . We frequently share our expertise with … ways to strengthen the voices of those who are normally excluded from policy, and to facilitate conversations online.  We work across a wide …
Page, 27 July 2022
Land and water rights in the Sahel
… In the Sahel, rain-fed farming and pastoralism are the main livelihood sources. In the past few decades, … directions. Contradictions between sectoral laws on land, water and pastoralism, and between these and legislation on decentralisation, … and Niger. What IIED did The aim of the group is to promote better policy, law and practices that address the governance property rights …
Project, 04 September 2008
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Market Commerce as Wildlife Protector? Commercial Initiatives in Community Conservation in Tanzania’s Northern Rangelands
… three areas that have received greatest scrutiny are: i) land law and policy; ii) the role of local governments vis-à-vis decentralisation; … land-use rangelands in northern Tanzania where wildlife, agriculture, pastoralism, tourism and other economic activities interact and compete … Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Participants developing the Ngiagagniao rural community map (Photo: Bara Guèye)
Making decentralisation work
… procedures in the management of local affairs and development policy; and build the capability of central government to create a favourable policy environment, empowering local decision-making and authority, … Drylands and pastoralism …
Project, 31 July 2008
Aerial view of an arid landscape. A group of people walk.
IIED at 50: be prepared to engage with young activists
… drylands as hotspots of problems – which is a widespread but biased policy view, not only in our governments but in international … rhetoric – to seeing them as hotspots of potential. The whole policy framework was built around a narrative where development … in the late 1980s. We cannot ignore that we have new evidence, and policy can be better informed based on this new evidence. Another …
Article, 29 November 2021
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MA Programme in Drylands Policy and Climate Change Adaptation : Course Flyer
… Drylands and pastoralism … MA Programme in Drylands Policy and Climate Change Adaptation : Course Flyer …
Publication, 01 January 2010
Crops and cattle
Climate change and conflict - reframing the debate
… systems. Instead, IIED calls for a new more equitable and sustainable policy narrative for drylands which recognises that dryland communities … Drylands and pastoralism …
Project, 17 April 2023
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
… English language editions. This allowed us to change the way science, policy and agencies thought about pastoral development, and local … of our work on land rights, tenure and common property, especially pastoralism, which we started in the early 1990s, and then hooked up … Drylands and pastoralism …
Insight, 22 June 2015
A screenshot from the Education for Nomads: Voices of the people video (Image: IIED)
Educating nomads
Project, 17 December 2012