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Women are gathered around a paper with squares on it talking.
Why enumeration counts: documenting by the undocumented
Insight, 10 May 2012
Mary Robinson addresses the Development and Climate Days, with (from left to right), Katharine Mach, IPCC; Claudia Martinez, CDKN; Janos Pasztor, UN (Photo: Climate Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mary Robinson: global solidarity needed to confront climate crisis
Insight, 09 December 2015
Lagos in 2010. Under different scenarios, Lagos could have 61 million inhabitants in 2100, or over 100 million (Image: Ricardo Gomes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will Africa have the world's largest cities in 2100?
… is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements research group and visiting professor at the Development Planning Unit, …
Insight, 07 October 2016
Closeup of the flame of a small oil lamp.
Energy equity: can the UN Sustainable Energy for All initiative make a difference?
… then begin in earnest. There is an important place for evidence-based research in underpinning valid solutions and monitoring the …
Insight, 29 March 2012
A community sanitation facility in Jinja, Uganda (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
World Toilet Day: People need equality and dignity when they 'have to go'
… IIED is a partner in SHARE — the Sanitation and Applied Hygiene Research for Equity programme, and runs SHARE's City-Wide Sanitation …
Insight, 18 November 2014
Two rice terraces with a small forest growing between them in Nepal.
Nepal: Forestry and agriculture and the story of their fake divorce
… forests. However this misconception is not backed up by recent global research. A study has shown that commercial actors, producing goods to …
Insight, 18 July 2013
Oxen plough a field in Ethiopia.
African land deals: Is a policy shift underway?
… more imaginative business models that include local farmers and research supplying the analysis to create informed debates. Governments …
Insight, 15 July 2013
A pick up truck lies mostly submerged under a water in a flooded street.
Five moments from 2012 that could spell change for the planet
Insight, 07 January 2013
Climate protestors in Doha. Photo: adopt a negotiator
COP18 Q&A: Latest from the Doha climate change conference
Article, 06 December 2012
A dilapidated road is repaired in the West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya, India (Photo: Rikynti Marwein via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Transforming growth for least developed countries
… and Development. This blog was first posted on the Independent Research Forum website . …
Insight, 10 March 2014