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The Forest and Farm Facility Vietnam team displays new forest and farm products and knowledge from work with Forest and Farm Producer Organisation businesses (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Mass mobilisation: boosting businesses and protecting forests
… climate-resilient landscapes and improved livelihoods demanded by the Sustainable Development Goals. But its real constituency are the women and men, … points In Gambia engagement was structured around a strong national agriculture and natural resource policy platform, and  In Myanmar and …
Insight, 20 March 2018
Group discussions with women in Isiolo County, Kenya helped to generate specific evidence about why they and other marginalised groups are more vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Susannah Fisher, IIED)
Decision making in an uncertain climate
Insight, 23 January 2017
Fishermen offloading their morning catch from a fishing boat in Kalindi, West Bengal (Photo: Souvik Das Gupta, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Creating waves for small-scale fisheries
… global call to conserve our oceans, seas and marine resources in the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG 14 ) was, for many, long overdue recognition of … critical question, and the focus of a recent meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations  I attended, is …
Insight, 17 November 2016
Woman collects water for irrigation in Selingue, Mali. Photo: Khanh Tran-Thanh
Ensuring water is equitably allocated and governed
Project, 05 August 2013
A group of men having a discussion
Legal tools: sharing lessons from innovation
Article, 09 October 2014
Cover for G01830.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 6 An introduction to Participatory Action Development (PAD)
… PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 6 An introduction to Participatory Action Development (PAD) Marc Lammerink, Peter Bury and Eveline Bolt … of concepts and practices of solutions is a good way to achieve sustainable Participatory Action Development development. Although more … opposed to the dominant form of knowledge produced and articulated An approach to community water management throughout history from the point …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Cover for 6122IIED.pdf
Valuing the Hidden Harvest: Methodological approaches for local-level economic analysis of wild resources
Publication, 01 January 1997
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Innovating to compete: Smallholder farmers' agency and markets in East Africa
… from practitioners working with smallholder farmers show that this approach is not appropriate for the majority of Africa’s smallholder … this important segment of the population to provide the basis for development as well as mitigating volatility of food prices. Attempts to modernise agriculture have not significantly changed its nature. IIED/Hivos …
Publication, 01 November 2012
In Kebkabiya, North Darfur, the NGO Practical Action has been helping communities prevent conflict between farmers and pastoralists by encouraging the construction and rehabilitation of watering points (Photo: Margaret Gardner, Practical Action)
Conflict resolution: a key part of adaptation in North Darfur
Insight, 23 April 2015
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 … 'killer risks' particularly useful: it forces a solutions-oriented approach with an action plan that allocates specific responsibilities to … for the resources they manage, they are often committed to sustainable use of forests and land. Group ownership often leads to …
Insight, 09 December 2016