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In Tanzania, former artisanal mining licensees Mwanahamisi Mzalendo and Mwanamkasi Rasi are among entreprenurial women who have pooled their resources to create a quarrying business. They control the day-to-day running of the quarry, including supervising labourers, dealing with the local authorities, and taking care of the site's environmental footprint (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)
Q&A: Women are driving the change we need
… women's voices loud enough in the policies spaces that will advance sustainable development? FD: I think we've seen some real progress in … where women have enough food, water and energy to pursue their own sustainable development, perhaps through entrepreneurial activity, or to … of Goal 2 around achieving food security and promoting sustainable agriculture – and going back to my point about primary and strategic …
Article, 08 March 2018
Local logging bosses ('patrons') attend a training session on business organisation and forest management in the remote miombo forest near Caia in Central Mozambique (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Mozambique's forest theatre – how will the play end?
… License areas into bigger, longer-term concessions that would allow sustainable forest management to become economically viable. This could … We are engaging local farmers around the idea of conservation agriculture to minimise deforestation from expanding farm areas. We are … deforestation. And we are working with rural entrepreneurs to develop sustainable business alternatives based on renewable non-timber forest …
Insight, 04 March 2015
The 2015 Development & Climate Days at COP21 is promising tough talk on poverty and climate
Paris talks have historic chance to include everyone in a fairer, greener future
… the right political support'." Dominique Charron, director of IDRC's agriculture and environment program, said: "Since 2006, IDRC has …
News, 26 November 2015
Cover for G02291.pdf
Impacts of Changes in Key EU Policies on Trade and Production Displacement of Sugar and Soy
… Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 January 2006
Should public money from Europe used to build wind farms, such as this one in Mulan, around 170km north east of Harbin City in Heilongiang, China, constitute official development assistance? (Photo: Land Rover Our Planet, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Development finance and climate finance: achieving zero poverty and zero emissions
… Is spending to make agriculture in Bangladesh climate resilient best labelled as climate … could be counted using the new metric of total official support for sustainable development (TOSD). These are important issues for both the … the importance of taking into account the three dimensions of sustainable development and building climate and disaster resilience …
Insight, 01 June 2015
Annual Report 2011
Annual Report 2010/11
… governance work: our efforts across all areas to secure transparent, sustainable, equitable and effective decision making at many levels. … learning in communication Provoking big debate about small agriculture Backroom work on biodiversity Learning together Sanjay …
Page, 17 October 2011
Cover for G02340.pdf
Business models that are inclusive of small farmers
… This paper was prepared for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United …
Publication, 01 September 2008
A farmer's house and sugar cane field in Cambodia, where there is concern about large-scale investment in sugar plantations driving local people off the land (Photo: Brian Hoffman, via Creative Commons)
Human rights should be at the heart of investment policy making
… for human rights. For example, investments in petroleum, mining or agriculture may squeeze the land rights of farmers, herders and … that undermine human rights are unlikely to promote inclusive sustainable development. A country may well receive investments but … benefits. And while international instruments on human rights and on sustainable development have been shaped by different historical …
Insight, 20 October 2014
Stands of giant bamboo, in what was once degraded cattle pasture, are ready to be loaded onto trucks (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)
Bamboozled by bamboo?
… Ecuador's Vice Minister of Agriculture, Jamill Ramón, last month opened the 5th international … for the resources they manage, they are often committed to sustainable use of forests and land. Group ownership often leads to … which tends to lead to greater buy-in to the concept and practice of sustainable development.  Duncan Macqueen ([email protected]) is …
Insight, 09 December 2016
Cover for G02251.pdf
NGOs as Market Actors: Roles and responsibilities in supporting small producers in low-income countries
… Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 March 2007