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Informal food vendors in Mathare, Nairobi. Understanding food consumption and how food systems work is essential to support food security (Photo: Cecilia Tacoli/IIED)
Urbanisation, rural-urban transformations and food systems
… With much of the debate on global food security and rural development framed in terms of inadequate agricultural production, … food security and livelihoods of low-income groups while fostering sustainable rural-urban transitions.  This project addressed a number of … Urbanisation and rural-urban linkages …
Project, 31 August 2016
Garment workers in Bangladesh - increasing automation threatens low-cost manufacturing jobs in developing countries (Photo: NYU Stern BHR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development
… wisely in their rich ecosystems. For those that can, basing their sustainable development strategies on the inherent value of these resources for … work for the environment can be done.   The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India, for example, supports both … Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development …
Insight, 17 August 2017
A farmer near Bagré dam in Burkina Faso dries paddy rice (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Seven papers unpick debates on African agriculture and rural development
… managing natural resources, protecting the environment, and achieving sustainable development. However, the debates around the specific policies and … urbanised population, while increasing household incomes for rural producers, have given rise to fierce debate and contested … Seven papers unpick debates on African agriculture and rural development …
Insight, 15 October 2014
A view of Shanghai's tall buildings
Cities’ development trajectories
… urban change within nations. This blog looks at what drives cities’ development trajectories, especially successful large cities.  To make … gaps. It produces a lot of data on nations. Some is broken down into rural and urban – but not to city level. The UN can defend this, for … But if city governments have key roles in (for instance) meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (and now controlling the COVID-19 …
Insight, 16 June 2020
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Rural Planning in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Natural Resources: Lessons learned and potential contributions to sustainable livelihoods. An overview
… detailed overview study encompasses several conventional fields of development planning and explores innovative local planning approaches … of natural resources. It brings together lessons from experience in rural planning from across the developing world. Examples are taken from … to the relationships between strategic planning and local economic development. There are five chapters which deal with: lessons from …
Publication, 01 January 2000
Information and communications technologies for sustainable development
… and communication technologies (ICTs) to unlock the power of rural economies are beginning to be realised. ICTs, once beyond the … of millions of people. The idea of ICTs being ‘mainstreamed’ in sustainable development has been adopted by the UNDP. It has been incorporated into … Sustainable markets … Information and communications technologies for sustainable development …
Project, 30 July 2008
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development
… Gender equality is rightly seen as crucial to sustainable development, with its own Sustainable Development Goal (Goal 5) . Yet … resources and powerful agents of change. Nidhi Tandon's research with rural women in Liberia and Fatima Jibrell's work in Somalia show how … Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development …
Insight, 02 February 2016
Woman cutting weeds in forest.
What’s needed to halt threats to rural land rights in Cameroon
… Land tenure insecurity is a problem across rural Cameroon. Rural and indigenous communities enjoy customary land tenure rights, but … rights by trialling a series of initiatives, but none has achieved sustainable solutions. A new briefing produced by IIED, the Centre pour … What’s needed to halt threats to rural land rights in Cameroon …
News, 09 September 2020
Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)
Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement
… IIED is working to highlight the importance of decentralising development and climate finance – to make sure that funding gets to … NGOs, micro-enterprises and others – have a critical role in sustainable development. They are best placed to know local concerns and … access investments to catalyse enterprises and income in Tanzania's rural communities , Sarah Best, Ben Garside (2016), IIED report …
Article, 25 January 2017
From decentralised finance to legal tools, this map showing real examples of innovative governance from around the world highlights seven tried-and-tested methods of empowering local institutions (Image: IIED)
Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development
… power and resources to the local level is the surest route to sustainable development and natural resource management. The map above points to … of mobile phones throughout Africa has helped connect people in rural areas with family and friends in urban centres, generating … Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development …
Article, 24 November 2015