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A demonstration of solar PV products by the Energy and Environment Partnership in Tanzania's southern Iringa Region gathers an audience of all ages (Photo: EEP Southern and Eastern Africa, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Bringing solar out of the shadows
Insight, 20 February 2017
Seven ways equity can promote success at the UN climate talks
Insight, 07 November 2013
Rainforest logged to make way for palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Deforestation for agribusiness is destroying habitats and the ecosystems upon which local communities depend (Photo: David Gilbert/RAN, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Law and political economy of the global resource squeeze: can action rise to the challenge?
… As principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group, Lorenzo Cotula leads research, policy engagement and field-level … Corcoran , communications content officer in  IIED's Communications Group . …
Article, 04 March 2019
Relocated street vendors operate in the car park below the alun-alun of the Masjid Raya Mosque in Bandung, but this basement area does not attract many customers and vendors have to breathe in car and motorcycle fumes due to the poor air circulation (Photo: Kemal Jufri/Panos Pictures)
Building trust through dialogue with street-food vendors
… ([email protected]) is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group . … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 05 November 2015
Solar-powered irrigated water pumps such as this one in Bangladesh can help villagers cope with unreliable rainfall patterns (Photo: Neha Rai/IIED)
Climate finance must reach poor families
Insight, 16 February 2015
A view from distance of dozens of buildings in close proximity on a hill
Karachi, informal settlements and COVID-19
… persons who are likely to have migrated are porters at the wholesale markets, waiters in hotels and restaurants, contract industrial labour, … work programme to physically improve UC and establish sustainable health, education and IT related programmes which build on …
Insight, 06 May 2020
A new publication will profile the success of locally controlled forestry business models (Image: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Local control of forestry could significantly slow man-made forest loss
… of supplying produce to their own immediate local and national markets, as evidenced in the case studies. They also have the ability to … compendium's business models offer an alternative approach to deliver sustainable use of the world's rapidly disappearing forests, and offer …
News, 04 September 2015
This farmer in India's Maharashtra state gets weather alerts, advisories about pests and market information via his mobile phone (Photo: Borlaug Institute for South Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)
CBA13: unlocking the power of technology to build climate resilience
Article, 27 February 2019
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… possible reason is the timing. The new global goal framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)  and the breakthrough global legal … at the top of this blog are stark and simple. We will not achieve sustainable development without sustainable urbanisation. We will not … cities continue to develop on exclusionary pathways – through markets and institutions that protect the spaces and living conditions …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Maize crops in Kirtipur Village, Nawalparasi District, Nepal (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
Investing in adaptation to climate change brings bonus benefits
Insight, 29 April 2014