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Forty governments and leading institutions commit to support locally led climate adaptation
… can often spend significant money on adaptation, according to IIED’s research on household spending on climate impacts in Bangladesh, and …
News, 25 January 2021
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The global land rush: securing a better deal for women
… Research into gender and the global land rush tells us that women in …
Publication, 01 March 2013
View of informal housing by a lake, with a boat in it. In the background modern buildings and skyscrapers
Advancing inclusive and resilient urban development targeted at the urban poor
Project, 07 February 2022
Men stand by trays of cocoa beans drying in the sun in western Ghana.
The knowns and unknowns of the global land rush
… the media spotlight turned to the global land rush, more and better research has provided more robust evidence and sophisticated analyses of … of how the deals are increasing pressures on the land? As the research agenda becomes more ambitious and sophisticated, an excessive … on methodology, Ward Anseeuw, a researcher at the Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) involved with the …
Insight, 24 October 2012
Nepalese women carry wood harvested sustainably from a forest. Forests cover nearly half of Nepal (Photo: Bikas Rauniar/Department for International Development, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
REDD+ in Paris – what could be in it for people and forests?
Insight, 27 November 2015
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Reviving knowledge: India’s rainfed farming, variability and diversity
… farming. Local and national authorities, public sector agricultural research and extension, and commercial ventures are designed to supply …
Publication, 01 August 2015
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Land tenure conditions and the viability of irrigated rice farming
… to increase national cereal production – more difficult to achieve. Research by the Global Water Initiative (GWI) at three dam project sites …
Publication, 01 August 2015
Two women harvest crops in a field
Principles for locally led adaptation
… into local hands for local adaptation priorities. However, IIED research in 2025 revealed that less than a third of climate finance …
Article, 21 January 2021
A partially obstructed drain in Gangtok city, Sikkim (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty
… ) is a senior researcher in IIED's  Climate Change research group ;  David Dodman  ( [email protected] ) is director of IIED's  Human Settlements research group .  This visit was part of a broader IIED research project looking at how social learning processes can address …
Insight, 21 July 2016
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Exploring expressions and forms of power in youth governance work (PLA 64)
… Salim’s experience working with youth councils in Kenya, and Cathy’s research with student steering committees (SSCs) in Sierra Leone to …
Publication, 01 December 2011