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Tackling the trade law dimension of ‘land grabbing’
… what is being agreed. But civil society organisations are stepping up efforts to improve public scrutiny. For example, a coalition of Thai … Goals and beyond Growing numbers of organisations are stepping up pressure to ensure that land rights feature prominently in the …
Insight, 14 November 2013
A Coca-Cola sign outside a small town in Benin. Bloomberg’s new health initiative will support cities to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks, but this isn't the biggest health challenge facing low-income urban residents (Photo: Lorena Pajares, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Bloomberg and public health: did he get it right?
… in cities like New York. In several of the 40 cities that have signed up for Bloomberg's support, a large proportion of their population live …
Insight, 07 June 2017
Investing in smallholders and workers is good for business
… from the world market. Others are moving into production, setting up big farms in one or more developing countries and hiring local farm … long-term sustainability. And across the world, businesses are waking up to the fact that it’s in their long-term interest to look after …
Article, 21 June 2011
A woman using a hoe
Q&A: Achieving sustainable intensification of agriculture – decisions and trade-offs
… helping they would produce less, have less income and might end up needing to take out a loan.  At household level the farmer must work … – not wanting to import any staple foods – but also signing up to the Aichi targets under the Convention on Biological Diversity, …
Article, 17 February 2020
A fish market in Vĩnh Trường, Vietnam. More than 300 million people are directly or indirectly employed by the fisheries sector, and must be addressed by the oceans SDG (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
A sustainable ocean by 2030
… in a new era for the world's oceans as the global community signs up to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Goal 14 calls on states …
Insight, 14 September 2015
The Mercato in Addis Ababa is Africa's largest market. This month there was another major gathering in Addis Ababa as thousands of politicians, policymakers and civil society leaders came together for the third Financing for Development summit (Photo: alvise forcellini, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why universality is a taxing agenda…
… recipient countries, including Ethiopia and Kenya, have signed up to work together on increasing DRM and supporting capacity building …
Insight, 20 July 2015
Children using water pump in Burkina Faso
Global Water Initiative: Burkina Faso
… for their management, and Capitalising on our experience of setting up a local water committee in the Upper Sirba sub-basin, which was … for preventive and reparative maintenance of manual pumps; and set up municipal committees to monitor facilities. Overall, our project …
Project, 16 February 2018
Campaigners celebrate the UK becoming the first G7 country to enshrine in law the UN-agreed target of spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on oversea aid (Photo: UNA-UK via Google licence)
Cameron can assure a lasting legacy
Insight, 07 June 2015
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2017 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2017: publications
… Agreement, international climate funds will be important in scaling up developing countries' climate action. Evidence shows climate finance … – status reports on their efforts to implement national-level follow-up and review frameworks for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). … conduct and use of evaluation in SDGs implementation, follow-up and review. Making mini-grids work: productive uses of electricity in …
Article, 28 December 2017
The construction of the CCCF Mega Dam in Makueni County, Kenya is an example of local action during a devolved climate finance pilot project (Photo: Japheth Mutuku)
Decentralised model gets climate finance moving
… may not be the same as needs identified by the community. The bottom-up approach of this particular mechanism means the community decides … (IED-Afrique) and IIED seeks to improve the climate resilience of up to 750,000 people . Modibo Cissé, director general of ANICT (Agence … investments. Committing some of their own resource is a very positive sign for the sustainability of the project," said Orindi.  "This is a …
News, 02 December 2016