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A fisherman looks at his latest huge catch of fish caught in nets
It is time to control fishing on the high seas to protect the life of the ocean and coastal people who depend on it
… the women, children and men who depend on them. According to joint research from IIED and the National Oceanography Centre , these are the …
Insight, 08 June 2019
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RRA Notes 5: General issue
… with people facing fuel wood shortages. The next article reports on research in North Sudan using the Rapid Food Security Assessment …
Publication, 01 May 1989
People sitting on outdoor chairs gather around and contribute views as one person writes up their points on paper pinned to the wall
CBD COP14: a breakthrough on understanding and assessing equity in conservation
Insight, 27 November 2018
International experts on gender and employment participating in an IIED gender workshop in 2014 (Photo: Lucille Robinson/IIED)
Gender in the workplace: do families always have to lose out?
… issues we grapple with as men and women in leadership positions, in research, in the way we communicate, and the way we operate, from our …
Insight, 15 May 2015
Rwanda is planning to produce land, water and forest accounts to inform policy around managing its rich natural resources.(Photo: Catherine Nomura, Creative Commons via Flickr)
First steps in communication: raising awareness
… a smartphone). Dominique Habimana, director of statistical methods, research and publication unit, talked about training journalists to … action. Rosalind Goodrich ( [email protected] ) is IIED's research communications manager …
Insight, 12 May 2015
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Science, Use Rights and Exclusion: A history of foresty in Francophone West Africa
… despite the challenge to such scientific principles by more recent research findings, the legacy of the past approach continues to dominate …
Publication, 01 January 2001
Women play a major role in the ASM sector in Ghana, as they do in all countries where ASM takes place. The dialogue meetings offered the chance to share ideas about improving working conditions and community wellbeing (Photo: Friends of the Nation)
New voices: Ghanaian miners, students and civil society representatives talk about ASM
… the mining sector and complementary rural livelihoods.  A  background research report , which was the basis for the dialogue discussions in …
News, 27 October 2016
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Overview: Community-based animal health workers, policies, and institutions (PLA 45)
… assist with disease surveillance;~- provide data for other forms of research; and~- play an important role in mobilising and informing …
Publication, 01 October 2002
Line of women walking through a field. One carries a basket on her head.
Promoting producer agency in agricultural value chain contracts: peer learning (in a pandemic)
… issues in sufficient depth. To improve remote learning and further research on the complex challenges that rural producers face, IIED is …
Insight, 16 December 2020
Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Are "alternative livelihoods" projects effective?
… Erin Sills, senior associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in 2011, "then any other intervention is really going …
Insight, 04 February 2014