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Staying south – trade, aid, and the recession
… then is the emerging role of middle income countries such as Brazil, India, and China as development actors and opportunity bringers to the … long since abandoned by the likes of the World Bank, bring the sustainable development benefits that LDC governments hope for - a huge … benefit the poorest nations. Ben Garside is a researcher in the Sustainable Markets Group   …
Insight, 30 March 2010
Hội An, Vietnam: in many towns in the developing world, street vendors constitute a significant share of total employment in the informal economy (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green economy must work for street vendors as well as Wall Street
… green economy, as well as many national green growth plans and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), make little reference to the … economy play an important role in climate change mitigation. In India, street traders and home-based workers – representing 11 per cent … The event will use examples from artisanal mining, food and agriculture, forestry, and urban food vending and waste collection to …
News, 24 February 2016
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 … critical question, and the focus of a recent meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations  I attended, is … Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in India, I've seen first-hand how social protection schemes offer a …
Insight, 17 November 2016
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MDG Conference 2003 Conference Participants List
… HONDURAS* Mr. Roland Bunch Association of Consultants for a Sustainable, Ecological and People Centred Agriculture HONDURAS* Mr. Alfredo Stein Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) INDIA Dr. Meera Bapat Researcher/consultant; Member of Governing ... …
Publication, 01 January 2003
The morning fish auction at Mumbai's Ferry Wharf. Thousands of boats fish along the coast, putting acute pressure on fish stocks (Photo: lecercle, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Shaking the money pot to protect nature
… as the Aichi targets, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). I joined a selected panel with Eike … market prices, subsidies are powerful levers to influence groups. Agriculture is a haven for subsidies. The UK spends £3 billion per year … leading to waste, reduced water tables and increased water salinity. India's generous subsidies (e.g. to rice, railways, kerosene, …
Insight, 25 July 2017
Four people sit on the floor to look at a map on the ground.
In her name: securing land tenure for women in Zambia
… programme also develops opportunities for communities to benefit from sustainable natural resource management. This is the third of four … of activities related to women’s land rights in six countries: Ghana, India, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. …
Insight, 14 October 2021
Members of the Zimbabwe Homeless People's Federation learn techniques for building houses on land that is affected by climate-related hazards, including waterlogging. Picture: David Dodman.
12 Christmas crackers from IIED
… release . 3. Counting the costs: replacing pastoralism with irrigated agriculture in the Awash Valley, Ethiopia This paper quantifies the … agencies often see as only as a problem — could be a source of sustainable livelihoods for millions of marginalised people, according … . 11. Media perceptions and portrayals of pastoralists in Kenya, India and China This report is one in a series from a project that shows …
Article, 27 December 2013
Logging truck in Cameroon. Credit: World Resources Institute (Creative Commons)
What’s missing from private-sector REDD+?
Insight, 29 January 2014
REDD+ in Mozambique: new opportunity for land grabbers?
… being joined by newly emerging economies – in particular Brazil, India and China – which are also increasingly acquiring large tracts of … have accumulated experience that is very welcome” said Mozambique’s agriculture minister, José Pacheco in this article . “We want to repeat … such as carbon stocks, watershed maintenance, biodiversity, etc. When sustainable forest management efforts to mitigate climate change evolved …
Insight, 15 September 2011
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IIED's best of 2020: publications
… life’ introduction to evaluating progress on the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is based on emerging country … to documenting health and climate risks for informal urban workers in India and Zimbabwe, and from working to grow networks to support green, … empowerment’ programme. In many parts of the world, investments in agriculture, mining, hydropower, petroleum and other infrastructure are …
Article, 23 December 2020