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Participatory community mapping and community land protection can yield tangible results for poor and vulnerable populations (Photo: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)
Next steps to strengthen global land governance
… the land registry office, with inadequate records and no legal back-up? Not surprisingly, investors can ride rough-shod over any procedure … support for civil society and social movements to build bottom-up pressure for state and corporate accountability. Ruth Hall  is …
Insight, 15 May 2016
Children stand on a dirt road in a village in Burkina Faso.
Global land rush: Contract transparency is crucial, but not enough
… public action, including the contracts that a government is signing up to. Much depends on the political space, and local groups may need …
Insight, 17 April 2013
A view from distance of dozens of buildings in close proximity on a hill
Karachi, informal settlements and COVID-19
… for day wage labourers houses 10-15 persons in the same room and up to 20 persons share a toilet. Almost all these settlements have piped … to temples, churches, and mosques, from where people could pick them up. There were still some accusations of distribution based on …
Insight, 06 May 2020
Collecting water from a solar-based purification system supplied by CAFOD. Chila Union, Mongla District, Bangladesh. Photo: Photo: Paula Nyunt / CAFOD
CAFOD/IIED show context is key to sustainable energy for all
… energy globally — also by 2030. More than 70 countries are now signed up. Some have argued that a shift to clean and more efficient energy … are needed to tackle energy poverty and if donors like the UK put up funds to back them. Getting off the Grid The good news is that … ' approaches take one product targeted at ’the poor‘ and scale it up for a mass market without considering the diverse nature of poor men …
Insight, 16 September 2013
Women walk along a red dirt road in Benin.
Is the tide turning for Africa’s investment treaties?
… worldwide. How does the Benin-Canada investment treaty measure up? In some ways, the Benin-Canada bilateral investmnet treatry (BIT) … by government action. And where governments were unwilling to pay up, companies have been able to seize assets that governments hold … by the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Balancing up investor rights and obligations This changing context is facilitating …
Insight, 08 March 2013
Vast quantities of logs being unloaded in the port of Zhangjiagang, South-East China. Estimates suggest timber imports travelling through Zhangjiagang increased by more than 60% in 2017 (Photo: Simon Lim/IIED)
Crucial agreement with China could save Mozambique’s forests
… is particularly destructive.  Simple licences are granted for up to 10,000 hectares of forest designated for logging and are renewable …
Insight, 14 August 2018
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Earth Summit 2012: Crucial opportunity that needs broader buy-in
… would be similar to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), drawn up from the targets laid out in the Millennium Declaration, which was … This focus has also helped contain the tendency for donors to dream up new approaches and priorities every couple of years. A few argue that … changed since the late 1990s, when the MDGs were being drawn up. No longer does a North-South axis dominate the planet, based on …
Insight, 20 December 2011
Land cleared for palm oil production, Indonesia (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How investment treaties protect 'land grab' deals
… and of vocal calls to terminate or renegotiate deals, or to tighten up their social, environmental and economic parameters, and Many deals …
Insight, 17 February 2016
Wind turbines on the top of a hill
Is Davos signalling the end of business as usual?
… real, transparent action on climate change inspired CEO Larry Fink to sign BlackRock up to the Climate Action 100+ initiative earlier this month – as well as …
Insight, 21 January 2020
Ancestral miners rush to find gold and platinum ore at a mine wall opened by medium-scale mining (Photo: Ronald de Hommel)
Informality and formalisation in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector
… to those who have some sort of mining title. These inevitably end up benefitting the wealthy and excluding the most vulnerable, which in … work of hauling, packing and processing minerals and ores we all end up using. Abbi Buxton ( [email protected] ) is a researcher with …
Insight, 12 November 2014