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Participants in a focus group for smallholder farmers and land administrators in Mali (Photo: Emily Polack/IIED)
What makes community engagement meaningful in the extractive industries?
… potential for improving current practice, and priorities for further research. Based on interviews with NGOs, researchers, government and … in or run engagement processes effectively. Questions of emotion Our research also raised some intriguing and less well-understood issues. … meaningful community engagement and offers recommendations and research priorities relating to each of these. Our respondents observed …
Insight, 14 March 2016
A young woman sits working at a sewing machine in a corner of a room.
Stitching with determination: stories of women garment workers in Indore, India
… in accessing loans for upgrading machinery to increase output.  Our research shows that home-based workers are strongly motivated to educate … and Shabnam Verma of the Urban Health Resource Centre , India. This research was commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Global Health Research Group using UK aid from the UK …
Article, 07 June 2022
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Cities for all? Rethinking urban displacement
… targeting and establishing resource requirements. As new IIED research shows, refugee organisations themselves can generate data that …
Publication, 01 March 2019
Debra Roberts makes a powerful presentation in the opening session of the 2018 Development & Climate Days (Photo: Alex Wynter/Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
"Half a degree matters" – D&C Days focuses on IPCC special report on global temperature-rise scenarios
… an opening address,  Clare Shakya , director of IIED's Climate Change research group , said: “There’s a huge opportunity in the coming year in …
News, 09 December 2018
One women holds a tree while another digs into the soil with a shovel, surrounded by green trees and foliage
New thought-provoking blog series scrutinises dominant approaches to resolving the nature and climate crises
News, 20 October 2021
Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons)
IIED's best of 2014: blogs
Article, 31 December 2014
IIED's improved Publications Library allows better access to the institute's 6,700-plus publications from mobile phones and the global South (Image: IIED/Jon Knox)
IIED delivers major upgrade to online Publications Library
… more than 6,700 publications, ranging from briefings to in-depth research studies, to books. Ninety-eight per cent of these publications … devices. Our move to a fully responsive site will help access our research more quickly and easily." Features on the newly enhanced site … and because they never change, they make finding, citing and sharing research easier.   The upgrade of the Publications Library follows an …
News, 25 August 2016
Introducing improved climbing bean varieties in Rwanda has transformed beans from a subsistence crop into a cash crop (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Flickr)
How are Rwanda, Ethiopia and Bangladesh preparing for climate change?
Insight, 24 November 2014
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Biocultural innovation: the key to global food security?
… traditional knowledge and community innovation with formal knowledge. Research by IIED and partners with 64 communities in four countries …
Publication, 01 June 2018
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Cambiando Perspectivas para Observar el Cambio: Enfoques participativos para monitoreo del Medio Ambiente
Publication, 01 January 1998