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Wang Zhi, assistant production manager of Jiamusi Zhongheng Thermoelectric Ltd, which was built in 1999 to provide 1.75 million GJ annually for Dalkia with an annual coal consumption of 350,000 tons (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The flipside of China's shift away from coal
Insight, 16 June 2015
Cover for G01414.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 1 "But how does it compare with the real data?"
… sense of unease as to whether Lumle Regional Agricultural Research Centre this radical departure from conventional (LRARC) lies …
Publication, 01 January 1991
People sat around a table looking at a poster.
Q&A: Communities combating illegal wildlife trade in East Africa
… conservation, Uganda Wildlife Authority, Jean Damascène (JD), research and monitoring warden, Rwanda Development Board, and Mary …
Article, 17 December 2020
Image of Namibian drylands with a stone hill rising in the background.
3-point action plan for leaders at Rio+20 summit
… and so are their solutions," says Toulmin. "After four decades of research on the links between the environment and development, IIED has …
News, 22 May 2012
Forested hills in Nepal, with a house in the foreground and forested hills, and then clouds behind.
Report calls for REDD+ to Invest in Forest Communities
… more generally—succeed or fail.” The report recommends that more research be done on reducing the costs of REDD+ interventions in …
News, 16 May 2012
Many crops today are grown in monocultures like this soybean field (Photo: via Pixabay)
We need to safeguard biodiversity and promote diverse diets
… diverse crops and animal products. Meanwhile, policies, subsidies, research and extension programmes need to be aligned to support diverse …
Insight, 22 May 2018
Cover for G01498.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 15 PRA training workshops: follow up issues from Uganda and Ethiopia
… self-critical awareness, as this is the Makerere Institute of Social Research related to the performance evaluation (MISR). This note …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Cover for G01501.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 18 PRA learning methods in agricultural policy analysis: implications for training
… pressure to facilitate management. Here the problems and issues are research that will be both mutually compatible probably very different …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Bushmeat stew: complexities of a shadowy trade
… of the size of the market. The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) estimates that the current bushmeat harvest in Central … tonnes a year—the equivalent of almost 4 million head of cattle. Research also emphasises the role of bushmeat in rural diets — in …
Insight, 01 February 2010
Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
Insight, 06 March 2019