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Local logging bosses ('patrons') attend a training session on business organisation and forest management in the remote miombo forest near Caia in Central Mozambique (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Mozambique's forest theatre – how will the play end?
… License areas into bigger, longer-term concessions that would allow sustainable forest management to become economically viable. This could … to combat that source of deforestation. And we are working with rural entrepreneurs to develop sustainable business alternatives based on renewable non-timber forest …
Insight, 04 March 2015
Men filling plastic containers with water. Niger.
Clean drinking water is about people, not pipes
… words adopted will be important for whatever replaces the millennium development goals (MDGs). An obvious topic of discussion will be … countries agreed to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The fine … and unlikely to meet the target. Moreover, the number of people in rural areas using an unimproved water source in 2010 was five times …
Insight, 15 March 2012
A busy side street in the settlement of Dharavi
Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
… valid data on individual cities. They provide findings for urban and rural populations and sometimes by state – but this is no use to city … applies for water and sanitation data used to monitor progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Monitoring progress on the SDGs has become …
Insight, 25 February 2020
PLA 60: Community-based adaptation to climate change
… those working in the fields of disaster risk reduction, community development, and climate change science. Good CBA is community-driven, … methods in research for community-based adaptation: reflections from rural Vanuatu Olivia Warrick Participatory rice variety selection in Sri … policy, research, and implementation institute working on sustainable development at local, national, regional, and global levels. …
Article, 01 December 2009
Costa Rica's Peñas Blancas Reservoir is the focus of work involving payments for ecosystem services (Photo: Dr Ina Porras)
Payments for ecosystem services: We can't leave people out of the equation
… overall PES schemes remain on the margins, bringing only very local development benefits. Still missing are national PES systems and international markets for ecosystem services that enable rural communities to sell the benefits they bring to distant … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 28 March 2014
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 12 Quality circles and institutional culture: a proposal
Publication, 01 January 1996
A Zambian farmer in his maize field. The overdependence on maize is having a negative impact on diets in Zambia (Photo: Wesley Wakunuma)
Promoting diversity on the farm – and the plate
… country's most important crop and the primary source of calories for rural and urban dwellers alike, a bumper harvest will do little to … International, FAO, UNEP and WFP.  This effort is part of the Sustainable Diets for All  programme, which builds capacity among local … in Uganda, Indonesia, Bolivia and Zambia to advocate for sustainable, diverse and healthy diets. A Food Change Lab process has …
Insight, 05 June 2017
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PLA 61: Tales of shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa
Article, 01 November 2010
Small-scale producers and standards in agrifood supply chains
… for smaller-scale producers, who form the backbone of the African rural economy. Given the importance of these producers for achievement of the Millennium Development Goals this is of major concern. This joint DFID-IIED-NRI … Information on standards setting and compliance issues for rural development, including the costs and benefits of compliance with …
Project, 02 October 2008
A tree nursery run by Fedecovera, is the world's biggest exporter of cardamom and a cooperative with 25,000 members (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Organise to thrive
… industry.  It is a major shareholder in the country's most widespread rural development bank (Banrural) and receives a 40 per cent annual return on … selling services to members, added-value processing industries; and development project management. It does not drain the financial …
Insight, 30 June 2015