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Francisco Sagasti (Photo: CADE Peru via Flickr)
Negotiating a fair future at COP20
Insight, 28 November 2014
Dlonguebougou, is a village of 1,500 people in the commune of N'Koumandougou, on the northern edge in central Mali (Image: Google Maps)
Long-term change in the Malian Sahel: portrait of Dlonguebougou village
Project, 14 August 2017
Supporting small-scale farmers: rights or markets?
… Development support for small-scale farmers must be based on both the … Cooperative Centre. “You can only address that with a rights-based approach to development,” he said. But if the room was behind Kimanzu’s … by Lasse Krantz from Sida what the implications of a right-based approach to market development would be for donors, all the speakers …
Article, 09 March 2011
Cover for G03647.pdf
Policy and Institutional Mapping for Small Scale Producers' Participation in Dynamic markets in Indonesia
… is reshaping the way that food systems are governed. Small-scale agriculture, which supports the livelihoods of the majority of rural … poor, is poorly prepared for these changes. Public policy~makers and development partners are generally remote from changes taking place … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 August 2006
A member of the Sekonyer community gets ready for a day on the Sekonyer river in Borneo, close to the site of recent conflict between a palm oil company and RSPO member and the local community (Photo: Rainforest Action Network via Creative Commons)
Paving a path towards redressing grievances and holding investors accountable
… people worldwide live on less than $1.25 USD a day, and depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Many have been badly affected by the … local communities seek redress and hold investors to account?  One approach is for them to bring claims before their national courts, but … multi-stakeholder platforms, such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) , provide grievance mechanisms. The …
Insight, 07 January 2015
Richard Sandbrook Memorial Lecture
… Before he died, environmentalist and champion for sustainable development Richard Sandbrook said the best way his friends and … leaders; and strategic interventions to bring Sandbrook’s approach to campaigning to a broader audience. For more information …
News, 23 March 2011
NGOs: friend or foe to markets for the poor?
… (30 March), began by asking who are the contents and discontents of development approaches to make markets work for the poor. According to … Speaking at the seminar , which was hosted by the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) and the Institut de Recherches et … are the multinationals. “My concern now is that NGOs are using scarce development resources to support such businesses to take over local …
Insight, 06 April 2011
A group of people holding a tree seedling
Harnessing the power of bees to benefit forest and people
Insight, 26 March 2020
Cover for G03648.pdf
Policy and Institutional Mapping for Small Scale Producers' Participation in Dynamic Markets in Turkey
… is reshaping the way that food systems are governed. Small-scale agriculture, which supports the livelihoods of the majority of rural … poor, is poorly prepared for these changes. Public policy makers and development partners are generally remote from changes taking place … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 May 2006
David Arach presented Namati's approach to community land protection, focusing on the key stage of community by-laws drafting, in the IIED webinar (Image: David Arach)
Using community by‑laws to protect indigenous and rural land rights
… of countries across Asia and Africa. It has developed an integrated approach to protect community land based on strengthening local … second speaker, John Samorai, program officer for the Ogiek People's Development Program  in Kenya, discussed how the indigenous Ogiek forest … solicitor and Legal Tools consultant at IIED focusing on law and sustainable development.   Further resources Les conventions locales, …
Insight, 01 December 2016