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Half of top ten countries most at risk from climate change already in or at high risk of entering debt distress
News, 20 April 2022
Women in Ahmedabad, India, collect rubbish from 6,656 households that make up the slum area of Juna Vadaj, illustrating the energy and innovation that informal economies can bring to the sustainable development agenda (Photo: Pritpal Randhawa for STEPs)
Development frontiers
… the day. That was the message two major funders of British government research sent out at a recent Development Frontiers workshop . Put … and change. He also seemed to be describing large parts of IIED's research and advocacy agenda when he talked about the need to build … as a threat to progress. But these are early days in creating a new research programme, and the initial signs are that it is one that IIED …
Insight, 21 March 2016
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Report of SIFOR Partners' Workshop, Cusco Peru, 29 April - 4 May 2013,
… brought together the Smallholder Innovation for Resilience (SIFOR) research teams from India, Kenya, China and Peru, the Potato Park … develop a common methodology for the SIFOR baseline study and action-research on biocultural innovation. The emerging findings of the … were identified. ANDES presented its conceptual framework for action-research in the Potato Park, and a field visit to the Park enabled …
Publication, 01 July 2013
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Tackling violence against women and girls in Gaza
… This working paper presents the findings of a research project on the protection of women against violence in the …
Publication, 01 August 2017
The UN poster showing all 17 sustainable development goals (Image: UN photo)
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): IIED and the new global agenda on sustainable development
… with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), of the Independent Research Forum (IRF) , a partnership of 10 leading sustainable development research institutes and think tanks from across the world.  IRF provides … actors in specific countries and around the world. Findings from this research have been documented through a briefing paper and a short case …
Article, 15 March 2016
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Building resilience to environmental change by transforming gender relations
… may exist, and to define the broad lines of a forward-looking action research agenda. Gender equality is not just about women, but about …
Publication, 01 May 2014
An image of a hilsa fish caught in a net. More than 90 per cent of the global catch of hilsa is shared between neighbouring countries Bangladesh, Myanmar and India (Photo: BBC World Service Bangladesh Boat, Creative Common, via Flickr)
Scientists from Bangladesh, India and Myanmar are calling on their countries to develop a shared plan for sustainably managing the hilsa fishery
… pressure on the species, say scientists at the end of a three-year research programme funded by the UK's Darwin Initiative that has been looking at ways to conserve this vital hilsa fish resource.  The research programme carried out by BCAS , BAU and IIED in partnership … and management of hilsa fish". Dr Khin Maung Soe, former director of research and development at the Department of Fisheries of Myanmar, also …
News, 05 May 2016
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Community Voices: local perspectives on international responses to illegal wildlife trade
Publication, 01 October 2018
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Lessons learnt from 20 years of revenue sharing at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
… dimensions of equity — recognition, procedure and distribution — the research explores funding flows, beneficiary targeting, monitoring and …
Publication, 01 November 2017
A young rice farmer at Sélingué, Mali. A new report urges governments and development agencies to develop context-specific strategies and support systems for agricultural advisory services that meet the needs of local farmers (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
Growing rice needs more than soil and water
… better. But AAS have long been the neglected sibling of agricultural research, with investments pouring primarily into the development of new … large irrigation schemes? Not really, according to GWI's action research. Farmer organisations and agricultural service providers … is principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group …
Insight, 30 September 2016