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Cover for G01536.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 25 Endnotes
… Road, Pune Information Centre for Low-External-Input and 411016, India. BAIF produces the BAIF journal which focuses particularly on livestock Sustainable Agriculture, PO ... … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Thousands of workers assemble and test fiber optic systems in a Chinese factory (Photo: Steve Jurvetson, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Governments in developing countries need to act now to avoid technology's threat to jobs
… have rich ecosystems – such as forests and rivers – to focus their sustainable development strategies on the inherent value of these … has done this through its reforestation programme, helping to develop sustainable tourism. Support to smallholder farmers so they can benefit … role in supporting communities to preserve the local environment. In India, this can be seen with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural …
News, 07 August 2017
Cover for G01615.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 8 Children's participation Special issue Starting a dialogue on children's participation
Publication, 01 January 1996
Cover for G04437.pdf
The Apple Park and Wheat Park, Tajikistan. Case study guidance on biocultural heritage territories
… peoples, research organisations and NGOs from Bhutan, China, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, … to revitalise biocultural heritage for resilient food systems and sustainable mountain development, guided by indigenous holistic … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 November 2019
An open sewer runs in front of homes
City leaders need to rise to the climate change challenge
Insight, 08 February 2020
Land cleared for palm oil production, Indonesia (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How investment treaties protect 'land grab' deals
… on the protection of foreign investment that the governments of India and Ethiopia signed in 2007.  Whether these statements will … as part of the recent wave of large-scale land deals for plantation agriculture in low and middle-income countries. The report looks at … IIED's revised and updated handbook on foreign investment, law and sustainable development provides guidance to governments and advocates …
Insight, 17 February 2016
A man stands behind an electricity generator
Energy literacy for all? Cracking the very hard 'soft side' of energy development
… , the  Climate Change Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)  and the  Sustainable Energy for All Practitioner Network  are just a few … them. Two giants in the energy access field are  Barefoot College  (India) and  Grameen Shakhti  (Bangladesh) that have trained scores of … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 22 September 2014
Communities call for access to genetic diversity to combat poverty and climate change
… workshop involving researchers and indigenous groups from Panama, India, Peru and China, calls for ways of ensuring that communities can … form of benefit-sharing, as it can provide immediate improvements to agriculture, nutrition, food security, health and income," says … a workshop of researchers and indigenous organisations from China, India, Panama and Peru organised by IIED and Fundación Dobbo Yala, an …
News, 21 January 2008
Baka women collecting non-timber forest products in Nomedjoh, Cameroon (Photo: Indra Van Gisbergen)
Biodiversity: a women’s business?
… enterprises while managing their community forests in a way that is sustainable.  In Cameroon, the CoNGOs project is supporting 10 women-led … on their farms to reduce water stress and make their farming more sustainable. The government of Kenya has created incentives through the … for indigenous tree species and eco-tourism.  Worm and women power In India, the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)  organise around 1.2 …
Insight, 29 November 2018
For the first time, IIED has produced a bespoke online annual report (Photo: IIED/We are Tangerine)
2014 annual report: online and in print
… landscape. The Annual Report, titled Building bridges for sustainable development , explores some of our work during 2013/14, … for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) , China Lok Chetna Manch , India Chinese Academy of Forestry and the Global Environmental Institute … Planning Unit, University College London , United Kingdom UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) International Union for the Conservation …
News, 11 November 2014