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Climate change driving increase in farmer suicides in India
… for farmers, and it's increasing their risk of suicide.”   Previous research has already shown multiple factors that put farmers at risk, …
News, 10 May 2023
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The Urban Crises Learning Fund evaluation final report
… What impact can research make in the long-term on people, policy and practice? What are … valuable types of learning and knowledge products generated through research and why? This ex-post evaluation explores these questions, using a body of research generated under IIED’s Urban Crises Learning Fund from 2015–17. …
Publication, 16 April 2022
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Carbon-intensive ultra-processed ingredients subsidised by nearly $43 billion a year
News, 28 November 2023
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Charting a comprehensive financial solution for resilient prosperity
… whose frequency and impact have escalated dramatically.  IIED’s research in 2023, ‘ Sinking islands, rising debts ’ showed that from …
Project, 13 August 2024
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Vulnerable island nations turning to pricey private debt as climate disasters escalate
News, 13 September 2023
Man in black jacket walking among temporary tents and shelters.
How can we achieve a world without long-term refugee camps?
… rations and with limited access to healthcare and education. IIED’s research is exploring the negative impacts of camps on wellbeing and … protracted. Speakers Lucy Earle  is director of the Human Settlements research group at IIED and lead for the 'protracted displacement in an … professor of migration and development at the University of Oxford, research professor at the University of the Witwatersrand’s African …
Event, 27 September 2023
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Bridging the urban adaptation finance gap
… directions for future urban adaptation and resilience finance research’. Finance is failing The UN climate negotiations at COP26 … scale and pace required. But it also highlighted that there is little research on: How to bridge the gaps in adaptation finance to enable it … the workshop brought together members of urban adaptation finance research and practice communities to reflect on what is new and …
Insight, 25 April 2022
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‘Poetry as illumination’: using creative writing to explore how gender and sexuality shape our work
… writing as a tool to explore how gender and sexuality shape our research, action and experience in the international development sector. … our identities influence our analyses and shape our relationships to research and practice. Feminists and other scholars on the margins have … experience is valid, and have embraced the objective of using our research to challenge patriarchy and other forms of oppression based on …
Insight, 13 April 2023
Design with a book, a tablet and picture of Brianna Craft. Text reads "UK launch of Everything that Rises: A Climate Change Memoir by Brianna Craft"
Everything That Rises: an evening with Brianna Craft
Event, 27 June 2023
A salt mine, with a white cliff against a blue sky and a tiny lorry in the distance.
Trade deals and the energy transition: whose voices count?
… often cause far-reaching impacts and transform these realities.  Research in the Atacama desert, in northern Chile, in collaboration with …
Insight, 23 April 2024