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Women sort plastic bottles for recycling in Seema Puri, Delhi.
Book challenges policymakers with new portrait of urban poverty
… can eliminate that poverty, as many successful economies show little sign of decreasing poverty in their urban centres. "If we want to build … it persists." In 2013, Mitlin and Satterthwaite will publish a follow-up book about what we know about what to do to tackle the problems that …
News, 11 December 2012
Small-scale miners dry ores in the process of gold mining in Geita, Tanzania (Photo: John Louis/Investing In Gold, Creative Commons)
Dialogues for a sustainable and productive artisanal and small-scale mining sector
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Project, 24 January 2014
An aerial view of the Southwest Mau Forest and neighbouring tea estates in Kenya (Photo: Patrick Sheperd/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Development finance and land rights: how we can do better
… advances but also areas for further improvement. Are the policies up to scratch? The DFIs’ environmental and social systems tend to rely …
Insight, 22 March 2019
Caspian Energy Initiative
… The Caspian Energy Initiative was set up to promote transparency and good governance in the energy sector. It … companies to declare what they pay. Turkmenistan had not yet signed up to EITI. Participants discussed the initiative and broader issues of …
Project, 11 November 2011
Man looks at two chimpanzees on a forest path
Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
… plans in our new community conservation policy. We hope to scale up and develop these plans for other protected areas in Uganda where …
Article, 21 July 2020
Green beans stacked into in a cardboard box
Rebalancing power in the Kenya-UK green bean value chain
… replication and upscaling All panellists agreed on the need to scale up the approach, both to more farmers and workers – beyond those …
Insight, 09 September 2019
Peñas Blancas Reservoir in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica: Growing money on trees
… for individual farmers, and the commission charged for this (up to 18% of the payments) is invested directly in a Wildlife Rescue … forest from the communal lands.” Squabbles about the legitimacy to sign REDD and PES contracts in indigenous territories in the country are … the official Indigenous association as the only official body to sign contracts. However, decisions are made by the group, about whether …
Insight, 26 June 2012
A question of time
… First, we’re starting a review of IIED’s Drylands Programme , set up in 1987. We will assess our achievements over the past 20+ years by … Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had yet to be set up, the world wide web was not yet established, and no one had a mobile … to settle in — time for people to understand how they work and build up expectations based on experience, which evolves over months and …
Insight, 25 November 2010
A village in Burkina Faso. Land investment in Africa is growing driven by rises in global food prices, companies who see market opportunities in biofuels, and overseas countries anxious to secure their food supplies through direct investment. Photo: Tex
‘Land grabbing’ in Africa: Biofuels are not off the hook
… ourselves about their limitations. It is virtually impossible to come up with an accurate aggregate figure of scale. There are many reasons … report does not cover some known very large deals, such as a deal for up to 300,000 hectares in Gabon and one for some 70,000 hectares in … have collapsed or have been delayed due to thinly capitalised start-up companies and greater-than-expected implementation challenges. The …
Insight, 16 October 2013
Climate protestors in Doha. Photo: adopt a negotiator
COP18 Q&A: Latest from the Doha climate change conference
Article, 06 December 2012