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Annual report 2009/10
… and medicinal herbs, and the negotiations were informed by IIED research. Beyond ‘land grabs’:  to follow up our widely read 2009 report … the field and highlighted some unexpected findings. Farmer-led food research:  IIED was working to upend the current system of agricultural research by helping farmers’ and citizens’ groups shape agendas and …
Page, 21 October 2010
Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama speaks at the podium at the start of the pre-COP23 ministerial meeting. He called for a coalition of partners to reach 1.5 degrees (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
Least Developed Countries Group sets out priorities for COP23
News, 25 October 2017
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Facilitating Learning Processes in Agricultural Extension: Lessons from Western Kenya
… Participatory Learning and Action Research (PLAR) for Integrated Soil Fertility Management (IFM) is a new approach to agricultural research and extension that has been successfully introduced in several … This study attempts to scale up and institutionalise PLAR within research and extension organisations. …
Publication, 01 January 2000
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Shorts: Four brief analyses of citizens’ juries and similar participatory processes (PLA 58)
… from a report from Policy Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Centre, Newcastle University, UK • If we have time, motivation …
Publication, 01 June 2008
IIED founder Barbara Ward, who would have been 100 on 23 May, set out the case for a fairer, more just world system
A vision of our world that is sustainable, fairer and realisable: memories of Barbara Ward
… Hardoy founded IIED's Human Settlements Group and, after designing a research model that continues today (based on strong collaboration with … professor at University College London.  He was Barbara Ward's research assistant for her final two books – The Home of Man (1976) and …
Insight, 27 May 2014
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Protecting traditional knowledge: a framework based on customary laws and biocultural heritage
… 3-5 October 2006, Geneva. This paper is based on the work of IIED and research and indigenous partners in Peru, Panama, India, Kenya and … of Customary Laws and Practices". Through participatory action-research the project is exploring the customary laws and practices of … and livelihoods. Experience is drawn from IIED’s collaborative research, with particular reference to the work of the NGO Andes in …
Publication, 01 October 2006
Community-Based Adaptation in Africa (CBAA)
… Between 2008 and 2011, the action research project Community­ Based Adaptation in Africa (CBAA) tested …
Project, 08 September 2010
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Traditional resource rights and indigenous people in the Andes
… Text and pictures are combined to highlight action research with indigenous communities on sustaining local food systems, … and Sustainable Development) and IIED, this participatory action research is actively developing an integrated model to protect …
Publication, 01 November 2005
A Coca-Cola sign outside a small town in Benin. Bloomberg’s new health initiative will support cities to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks, but this isn't the biggest health challenge facing low-income urban residents (Photo: Lorena Pajares, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Bloomberg and public health: did he get it right?
… is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements research group and visiting professor at the Development Planning Unit, … is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group …
Insight, 07 June 2017
A market in Fort Portal (Photo: Sister Haiti, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Making sure Fort Portal's 'modernisation' plan feeds the poor
… Mountains, lies Fort Portal. It is the location for an innovative research, mobilisation and advocacy project, the Fort Portal Food Lab. … inclusive policies.  Christopher Busiinge is the head of the Kabarole Research and Resource Centre (KRC) Information Unit and is an IIED …
Insight, 11 December 2015