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Balanced diet includes local and imported food, say IIED, Oxfam
… new book by Oxfam and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The authors call for a new balanced diet consisting … from developing nations in the belief this is a positive choice for sustainable development. "Climate change will hit poorer rural people in developing nations first, fastest and hardest," says …
News, 03 December 2009
Focus on small-scale farming: food or jobs?
… series: Making markets work for small-scale farmers? Provocation #6: Rural youth today, farmers tomorrow? The latest ‘ provocation ’ from … , held in The Hague last week (24 May), began by asking what the development community can do to support rural youth. And for consultant … their livelihoods are not adequately reflected in government and development policy and practice. “The big movement of people into more …
News, 31 May 2012
Participants developing the Ngiagagniao rural community map (Photo: Bara Guèye)
Making decentralisation work
… Decentralisation is intended to result in more effective local development by enabling local people to participate in the planning, … and transparent procedures in the management of local affairs and development policy; and build the capability of central government to …
Project, 31 July 2008
A REDD strategy team talk to farmer Nimale Maribu at the Meceburi Forest Reserve, Mozambique. Photo: Mike Goldwater
Testing REDD+ in Mozambique
Project, 01 October 2013
GWI influence - access and rights to irrigated land - planting rice - Selingue dam - Mali
Global Water Initiative: Mali
… Approximately 2,200,000 hectares are deemed to be suitable for the development of irrigated agriculture in Mali, only 20% of this land is … dam and associated irrigated perimeters are managed by the Office for Rural Development in Sélingué (ODRS); we worked closely with both staff … councils within our project area. These can be grouped as follows: Sustainable drinking-water supply Water points – including boreholes and …
Project, 16 February 2018
Cover for 14567IIED.pdf
Association ANDES: Conserving indigenous biocultural heritage
… The Association for Nature and Sustainable Development (ANDES) is an indigenous NGO that seeks to defend indigenous … grown considerably over the years. It now works with 39 indigenous rural communities, many of whom live in conditions of poverty or extreme …
Publication, 01 August 2008
Cover for 16610IIED.pdf
State gold-buying programmes. Effective instruments to reform the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector?
… a living to some 100 million people, offering huge potential for rural development. Yet the sector remains mostly informal and difficult to … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 March 2016
Renewables, why bother?
… pointed out, the priority for least developed countries (LDCs) is development, not mitigating climate change. Nevertheless, countries that … energy in LDCs. But this could still exclude poor communities in rural off-grid areas. In these cases there is not such a compelling … local actors to get involved.   Ben Garside is a researcher in the Sustainable Markets Group …
Insight, 04 August 2010
Nearly 80 per cent of Dar es Salaam's residents live in informal settlements, and less than 10 per cent of the city has sewer access (Photo: Anna Walnycki/IIED)
Connecting settlements, cities and basins: realising SDG 6 at scale
… the upcoming World Water Week  will be how to implement and monitor Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, seeking to ' ensure availability and … far meeting the needs of the urban poor would impact water resources. Rural-urban competition for water at the river basin level and unequal …
Insight, 25 August 2016
Cover for G02743.pdf
Innovative approaches in participatory research, on-farm conservation and the management of agricultural biodiversity in Europe
… serious challenges from climate change, environmental degradation and rural social decline. In this context, maintaining the diversity of the … appropriate regulatory frameworks for the on-farm conservation and sustainable use of seed diversity. The FSO highlights the need for a …
Publication, 01 April 2010