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Community technicians and coordinators in Uganda chat with a local farmer during a monitoring visit. These discussions are a key connection between the technical and local worlds in carbon forestry (Photo: Geoff Wells)
Bridging the two worlds of carbon forestry
… trees. Worlds apart The latter lies at the heart of forest work in rural communities. And the former will not save a single tree without … University of Edinburgh and a consultant working with IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group . …
Insight, 05 April 2017
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PLA 54: Mapping for change: practice, technologies and communication
… in the landscape  by Jon Corbett and Peter Keller Resource use, development planning, and safeguarding intangible cultural heritage: … by Peter Poole Issue-based case studies PGIS as a sustained (and sustainable?) practice: First Nation Experiences in Treaty 8 BC, Canada  … Forestry Research (CIFOR) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) Environmental Research Mapping and Information …
Article, 31 March 2006
Roasted coffee beans.
World Food Day: how do you keep co-operatives competitive?
… We all know of failed co-operatives, promoted by governments and the development sector since the 1960s, and ‘dropped’ in the 1980s with the … to bury their dead in dignity. Later, it developed a scheme linking rural producers to urban food needs through weekly markets . CECOSESOLA … farmers’ leaders, researchers, agrifood business entrepreneurs and development practitioners. Our collaborative Knowledge Programme, ‘ …
Insight, 15 October 2012
An excerpt from the Challenging the constitutionality of adverse laws: Success stories from Indonesia webinar
Striking down adverse investment laws: success stories from Indonesia
… action to make investments in natural resources fairer and more sustainable in order to protect the rights of citizens and the … natural resources are more likely to promote and protect rights of rural citizens. Striking down adverse laws in Indonesia Yudha, from the …
Insight, 25 March 2014
Congolese refugees proudly display the cup they won in a football tournament for youths from refugee communities in Kampala (Photo: Stephen Luke, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Beyond self-reliance: recognising the relationships that matter for urban refugees
… the geographical location of refugees ; discouraging migrations from rural camps – where they are eligible for assistance – to urban centres, … humanitarian assistance and livelihood opportunities into something sustainable and meaningful for them".  Recognising the role of cultural … youth groups, including Young African Refugees for Integral Development (YARID) , work to support young refugees in Kampala through …
Insight, 07 November 2017
The rich agro-biodiversity of the Eastern Himalayas (Photo: Nawraj Gurung)
Unmissable opportunity to build food security and reduce GHGs at Paris COP
News, 12 February 2015
A toilet block in Mumbai, India, where people living in different informal settlements experience distinct forms of inadequate sanitation (Photo: Renu Desai)
Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem
… pollution of water supplies within slums and beyond into downstream rural areas. My key argument has been that if sanitation solutions are … approach to the SDGs This means that global initiatives like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must be geographical goals, i.e. they can only …
Insight, 26 August 2015
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The houses that Karachi's poor want
… growing population has expanded into its hinterland destroying the rural economy and damaging the region's ecology. Houses were built by … violence, crime and killings," says Farhan Anwar, Project Director of Sustainable Initiatives, in the film. The state owns considerable plots … the housing? Given the power of those behind speculative housing development in the city and the government's anti-poor bias in its …
Insight, 23 April 2014
A pastoralist dwelling in Niger. Rural communities have learned to exploit the variability of dryland environments (Photo: IIED)
The end of desertification?
… desertification, land degradation and drought, and promoting sustainable pastoralism and rangelands (PDF) . But all this work poses a … to season, year to year, place to place and decade to decade. Many rural dryland communities – including many very poor ones – have learned …
Insight, 29 September 2016
Chart showing decentralised energy access – finance needed and contribution of climate finance (Image: Sarah Best/IIED)
The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend?
Insight, 24 June 2016