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Drilling for oil in Mali.
IIED urges G8 to see transparency as critical step on road to accountability
… but as a critical step on the road to accountability and fair and sustainable development. Information alone is not enough. People need to be able to … such as large-scale land deals should reflect local aspirations about rural development. This requires effective arrangements and robust …
News, 14 June 2013
A community in Cameroon, where Centre pour l'Environnement et le Developpement has been supporting junior lawyers in rural communities (Photo: Lorenzo Cotula/IIED)
Legal empowerment: what we do, what we've learned
… 2006, this legal tools project has worked to strengthen the rights of rural people in the face of natural resource investments. Characterising … are able to exercise rights, make informed choices and advance their development agendas. But the transnational reality of investment … are in the driving seat. Legal empowerment that is impactful and sustainable is ultimately about strengthening local organisations. So …
Insight, 14 November 2017
A typhoon hits shanties in Manila. Urban governments, which are already struggling to provide basic infrastructure services, also need to build resilience to climate change (Photo: Ernie Penaredondo/Global Water Partnership, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs and 'a new urban agenda'?
Insight, 08 September 2015
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 Meyer ( GIZ … technologies. Bhutan gives free, or very low cost, electricity to rural households to reduce the use of firewood. Subsidies to improve …
Insight, 25 July 2017
Meceburi Forest, Mozambique: a young woman harvests casava (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?
… attended an unusually lively conference on tropical forests and sustainable development at Yale University  exploring how different local … but far from the norm. It is estimated that tenure of about half of rural forest and dryland areas in the developing world is insecure – …
Insight, 11 February 2016
This week in Myanmar, pictured, the Forest Farm Facility is funding a national exchange between forest and farm producer groups and many other producer groups (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter
… In 1983, Robert Chambers published his controversial book ' Rural development – putting the last first ', which challenged … forest-farm enterprises delivers local public goods (such as sustainable food, energy, water and construction materials) alongside …
Insight, 24 March 2014
Renewable energy has a place to play in providing energy access to small farms (Photo via Google reuse rights))
Calling all energy and agriculture experts: meet, talk and collaborate
… messages. Some say we need to rapidly scale up energy supply to rural areas, while others get fired up about the potential and risks of … boosts income and wellbeing in this way is referred to in the rural development arena as 'energy for productive uses' — and this is the … past, the different technical options – from rural electrification to sustainable agricultural practices – and potential success factors to …
Insight, 29 April 2014
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
Article, 04 April 2019
An image of Saleemul Huq at the podium giving a speech. On the final day of the CBA10 conference, he called for federations and communities of the urban poor to be better utilised by urban developers, climate change practitioners and local government to mainstream local adaptation (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
International climate adaptation conference calls for governments, NGOs and infrastructure investors to work with urban community federations to mainstream and finance local adaptation
… adaptation at scale, which also has benefits for pro-poor urban development. In many developing countries, shack and slum dwellers … CBA back home. Communities should be the driver in making adaptation sustainable, maintaining links with the government and other … "We must not lose sight of the vulnerable communities – urban and rural – that stand to benefit… from enabling effective adaptation …
News, 28 April 2016
Langrug informal settlement, South Africa, May 2014 (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Introduction to urban poverty
… urban poverty, and to change misleading views about urbanisation and rural change. Drawing on the knowledge and practical experience of our … over the next five years we will: Help to ensure that the post-2015 sustainable development agenda  (replacing the Millennium Development Goals) pays …
Project, 09 September 2014