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What maintains poverty? A study of factors affecting poverty in mountainous areas of Quang Ninh province, Vietnam
… way. This study considers the causes of household poverty, equity issues and development assistance programmes implemented in each … to them, as well as their own problems and solutions. The following key issues were identified: • Weaknesses in land reform, concerning both … enjoy a much more favourable share but fail to use land in a sustainable way, while a number of households have no access to forest …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Climate, carbon, conservation and communities
… and WWF-UK shows, careful planning and community involvement will be key to reaping the potential of this combined solution to multiple … and control forest lands that they have used for generations. Other issues that must be considered include the risks that poor people will … lessons from the past few decades of biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management. As yet, they pay scant attention to …
News, 04 September 2007
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 … cities continue to develop on exclusionary pathways – through markets and institutions that protect the spaces and living conditions … is already set out, as David Dodman outlined in his comments . The key question is whether the conference in October can still be used to …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Richard Sandbrook Memorial Lecture
… Before he died, environmentalist and champion for sustainable development Richard Sandbrook said the best way his friends … really growth?” asked Kakabadse. Such measures take no account of the key issues in society and nature: the number of healthy people in our …
News, 23 March 2011
A Chinese journalist interviews fellow journalists in Kenya (Photo: YiDe Media)
China-Africa relations: Fresh perspectives from Chinese journalists on environmental challenges
… Chinese journalists' travel to Kenya in February 2014 to investigate sustainable development issues associated with China's engagement there. … trip, I met with the five journalists in Beijing last month. Three key takeaways are worth recounting: 1. Journalists' responsibility to … eyes of local people – for example by visiting the Kibera slum and markets for the poor – was indicative of how such a new approach to view …
Insight, 02 May 2014
A small mining operation near Garies in the Western Cape, South Africa (Photo: jbdodane, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Stuck between a deposit and a hard place
… a lack of foresight and a missed opportunity to address some of the key issues juniors experience on a regular basis. In 2012, the … Buxton ( [email protected] ) is a senior researcher with IIED's Sustainable Markets Group . …
Insight, 26 February 2015
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PLA 61: Tales of shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa
… and history of the journal Explore the archive: browse and download issues or individual articles November 2010 Guest editors: Petra … The overview article provides an introduction to CLTS, and discusses key elements for successful CLTS and issues around scaling up CLTS in … Sanitation Research) Programme aims to develop and promote sustainable sanitation in the developing world through capacity …
Article, 01 November 2010
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
… change on Least Developed Countries: are the SDGs possible? The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the United Nations' development …
Article, 31 December 2015
Protesters march and carry climate-related placards
IIED and partner events at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit
Event, 23 September 2019
Deforestation in Bhutan: forests are a prime example of how an integrated approach to policymaking can prevent benefits in one area undermining wellbeing elsewhere (Photo: Curt Carnemark/World Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Integration: will the UN Forum on Forests lead the way?
… Integration is critical to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) . This has been widely recognised, … finding a workable compromise between different interests (PDF) . One key aspect of an integrated approach to policymaking is ensuring … these outcomes to be achieved (for example good governance, fair markets, social justice, inclusive and integrated land-use planning).  A …
Insight, 01 May 2015