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Four young Ethiopian men standing in a field of cabbages
Africa’s evolving food systems
… Studies (IDS)  to explore these debates by commissioning new research. Things had changed since 2001, when an influential issue of … and institutional environment had altered. The aim of the new research was to improve the understanding of agricultural and rural … and new drivers of change, so as to stimulate debate and research, and contribute to improved policy and food security outcomes. …
Project, 20 November 2019
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Towards good practice in the oil and gas contracting chain: Kazakhstan country report (in Russian/Русский)
… This report is a Kazakhstan country contribution to a research project exploring the environmental and social performance of … principally) supplemented by a range of discussions and desk-based research on the practices of oil companies and contractors based in the UK and Norway. This report is based on desk research and discussions with officials, businesses and non-governmental …
Publication, 01 January 2009
Busy road with people and motorbikes.
Film exploring the lives of urban refugees wins best documentary at Kenyan film festival
… . SDI-Kenya is currently working with IIED’s Human Settlements research group on the  'Protracted displacement in an urban world' research project , which is comparing the wellbeing and livelihoods of …
News, 14 December 2021
Give power to local people to stop the loss of biodiversity
… changes in environmental governance by national governments. But research by IIED into deforestation in 33 African countries showed there …
News, 03 September 2021
Landscape of cracked earth
A triple win: managing debt, climate and nature in the pandemic recovery
… destruction. This event on Tuesday, 30 March 2021 explored recent research into previous debt relief efforts such as the Heavily Indebted …
Event, 30 March 2021
A solar panel outside a rural house on stilts
Critical theme: Can China help build a global eco-civilisation?
… fellow at Chatham House and associate faculty at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Dr Yuka Kobayashi … International Politics at SOAS, University of London, and visiting research professor at Nankai University (China). Her recent work focuses … Initiative in Central Asia, Europe and Southeast Asia Dr. Wei Shen : research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies who is …
Event, 25 September 2019
People sit around a desk and talk into microphones
What makes a sustainable diet? And who decides? Make Change Happen podcast episode 5
… Guarin, senior researcher in our Shaping Sustainable Markets research group, and Costanza de Toma, who led on communications and … unhygienic (the latter point being one of the myths ‘busted’ by our research). Equally, traders are keen to avoid negative attention from … households rely on the informal sector for their food. But despite research showing that the informal market is delivering nutritious food …
Article, 05 May 2020
Woman washing dishes in a bowl outside.
Grassroots insights into urban risk and resilience
Project, 20 October 2020
Plastic boxes containing fish and ice
Hilsa fish essential to Myanmar local nutrition and livelihoods, and needs protecting
… certainty when or where additional spawning periods occur. Until such research findings are available, researchers recommend focusing …
News, 11 November 2019
Aerial view of destroyed housing and infrastructure.
Resilient prosperity in SIDS: forging a new finance compact
… finance, but there are severe challenges with accessing money, and research by the Overseas Development Institute highlights that only tiny … the cards are stacked against them.  Look out for more IIED research on debt restructuring and finance for SIDS in the next month. …
Insight, 29 August 2023