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IIED's Essam Yassin Mohammed directs questions to UCL senior lecturer Peter Jones on Marine Protected Areas (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Critical theme: Governing Marine Protected Areas
… Jones has spent more than 20 years undertaking trans-disciplinary research on the governance of human uses of marine resources, provided … financial themes, with the latest by Carina Millstone, visiting research fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute at … the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking's research program,  have also visited  IIED's Gray's Inn Road office this …
Event, 06 October 2014
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Making sustainable development a reality – movements that inspire change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 17
Article, 21 June 2022
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Achieving ‘no net loss’ for people and biodiversity in Uganda - U-PCLG Policy Brief
… suffer as a result of NNL provisions. This policy brief reports on research conducted in Uganda to explore the biodiversity and social …
Publication, 01 March 2019
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Think-tank alliance identifies eight shifts needed for sustainability
… The recommendations come in a paper published today by the Independent Research Forum on a Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda, whose … Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, North America and South America. The research institutes joined forces to provide expert analysis to inform … engagement and collaboration But first, says the Independent Research Forum, eight shifts will be essential. From ‘development …
News, 12 March 2013
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Niger: Pastoral livelihoods and climate change adaptation
… Field research by IIED with support from the Secrétariat Permanent du Code … to climate change, which of these were successful, and why. The research analysed whether and how Niger’s policy environment helped …
Project, 17 December 2012
A multi-tiered agroforestry landscape.
How smallholder farmers are scaling up local ecosystem-based climate adaptation solutions
… forest and farm producer organisations , Duncan J Macqueen (2021), research report   …
Insight, 11 April 2024
Workers at the Dakete Gold Mine explain health and safety procedures in a powdering station. The IIED dialogue aimed to engage key stakeholders, including mineworkers, in a conversation about the future of ASM mining in Ghana (Photo: Friends of the Nation)
Dialogue prompts participatory reform in Ghana's artisanal and small-scale mining sector
… They came together as a result of an ongoing process of dialogue and research convened by the International Institute for Environment and … This participatory reform process started last September. Months of research and consultation paved the way for a gathering of 60 … associate at IIED. "Our dialogues have been informed by in-country research that identifies existing efforts and the potential for …
News, 14 September 2016
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Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Preface by Michel Pimbert.
… to rethink the priorities and governance of food and agricultural research in the Andean Altiplano of Bolivia and Peru. The work presented … Governance of Food Systems: Citizens Rethinking Food and Agricultural Research for the Public Good. To download the full publication or other …
Publication, 01 April 2013
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Bringing urban refugees into local planning
… and the difficulties for many refugees in finding paid work. IIED research in Kampala and Nairobi shows the struggle to access basic … to promote self-reliance focus on livelihoods, but a growing body of research points to non-economic factors.   Critically, any attempt to … sanctuary to people displaced by conflict. In the meantime, new research from IIED will examine the intersections between local …
Insight, 20 July 2020
The sun beats down on Dongo village, Tanzania. Children walk with cattle while women carry water buckets (Photo: Chih-Jung Lee)
Shining a light on energy consumers in rural Tanzania
… understand their electricity consumption behaviour. As part of my research I visited eight villages in northern Tanzania.  I wanted to … if income is limited. So, what's growing farmers' energy use?  My research found out what's really driving consumption in farming … of how to use electricity more effectively. With findings from my research in northern Tanzania, I hope to support mini-grid operators in …
Insight, 12 March 2018