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Towards planet and people-positive agriculture in East Africa
… food insecurity persists, affecting the poorest and most vulnerable rural and urban people. Agricultural policies and practices focus on … and Kenya – and identify entry points to support a transition towards sustainable and equitable food and agriculture systems in the region. … workshops. This analysis will inform the decisions and actions of development actors in Africa and globally. …
Project, 24 November 2020
Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
IIED's best of 2015: blogs
… the world. Let us mourn Cecil, but be careful what we wish for. Sustainable agriculture in China: then and now March: The environmental … this time, it used no chemical fertilisers or pesticides.  Stopping rural people going to cities only makes poverty less visible, and … at the potential impacts of climate change on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals .     Clearly, there is a need for these discussions …
Article, 22 December 2015
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
…  that you don’t want to miss.  1 Investing in nature for development: do nature-based interventions deliver local development … the delivery of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the Sustainable Development Goals.  The report, published with … as India’s social protection programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) , can be redesigned and …
Article, 17 December 2021
A man and woman standing in a field
Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms
Article, 26 April 2020
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Urbanization
… about half of the world’s population now urban, the salience of the rural-urban dichotomy is declining: urban densities are decreasing; … urbanisation provides critical opportunities and challenges for sustainable development. Urbanisation and economic growth have combined to create …
Publication, 01 April 2015
An African man makes a speech in front of a banner in Chinese
Our previous work on China
… discussions in China Fostering collaboration and joint action for sustainable Chinese investment and trade in Africa through building … examining how China and Brazil are shaping African agricultural development . Read ' Chinese migrants in Africa: facts and fictions from … the extent to which biogas can be a viable energy strategy for rural households in China.    BRICS urban transition: sharing key …
Article, 01 August 2019
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IIED's best of 2021: videos
… increase in how video was used in a variety of ways to communicate sustainable development issues in the wake of COVID-19, that trend continued over … enhance the climate resilience impacts of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in India. Another animation …
Insight, 28 December 2021
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Share the love this Valentine’s day with fairer flowers and chocolates
… helped Wilmar Agro Ltd develop and manage a commercially-viable and sustainable supply chain and build a network of contacts and links with … be gained. Another recent study examining the impact Fairtrade had on rural development in the following sectors found Kenyan Fairtrade flower … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 13 February 2013
Regoverning Markets publications
… farmers. Chain-Wide Learning for Inclusive Agrifood Market Development. This guide provides concepts and tools for working with … small-scale agriculture, to contribute to economic growth and sustainable development. Reconnecting Markets  focuses on the keys to inclusion of small-scale farmers and rural SMEs into dynamic national and regional markets Making a …
Article, 09 August 2013
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Urbanisation Concepts and Trends
… 2014~(to include more recently released statistics on urban and rural population prospects) There is an emerging consensus that urbanisation is critically important to international development, but considerable confusion over what urbanisation actually … urbanisation trends. It ends with a brief review of urbanisation and sustainable development, concluding that while urbanisation brings …
Publication, 01 June 2014