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An illustration showing two people reading a book titled "Participatory Learning and Action" in front of the words "positive change"
Participatory Learning and Action: archive
… practitioners. The PLA archive PLA 66 - Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods September 2013 … February 2000 PLA 36: General Issue October 1999 PLA 35: Community Water Management June 1999 PLA 34: Learning from Analysis February 1999 … Issue February 1995 RRA Notes 21: Participatory Tools and Methods in Urban Areas November 1994 RRA Notes 20: Livestock April 1994 RRA Notes …
Article, 31 January 2022
In 1992 the United Nations called Mexico City "the most polluted city on the planet". City authorities took radical steps to cut pollution, but Mexico City still has smog and is increasingly vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Fidel Gonzalez, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Should cities invest in climate mitigation?
Insight, 21 September 2015
Houses teeter on the edge of a river in Indonesia.
Beyond the Millennium Development Goals
… maternal mortality rates, and the proportion of people without safe water and basic sanitation. Most of the eight MDG targets are meant to … the water provided is fit to drink and available 24 hours a day. In urban areas, we have models of how this can be done, as shown by the … 4: Avoid vague and ambiguous statements. Sadly, a commitment to sustainable development means nothing today unless it specifies what is …
Insight, 01 August 2012
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
… land use, or mitigating climate change, or producing timber or water etc, but in achieving all these things together. They must balance … forest-farm enterprises delivers local public goods (such as sustainable food, energy, water and construction materials) alongside … in pressing their needs when in competition with connected urban elites and well-funded single-issue agendas that so many outsiders …
Insight, 24 March 2014
Gatekeeper series: Local organization Profiles
Article, 01 April 2010
Two people pour liquid on a plate of potatoes.
Indigenous food systems prove highly resilient during COVID-19
… seeking to reorient industrial and globalised food systems towards sustainable, local and native alternatives. This work has united … more and more industrialised. Reviving traditional practices As urban populations around the world suffered the parallel disasters of … conserving biodiversity, food-producing habitats and natural water systems. “Healthy lands produce healthy foods and farming native …
Insight, 26 August 2021
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Mexico’s Payments for Ecosystem Services Programme
… task. The country has nearly 125 million people, with an expanding urban network (almost 80 per cent now live in cities); a growing economy … social benefits), a property regime that underpins the PES programme. Urban expansion and demand for resources drive deforestation and put significant pressure on water: for supply to cities, for agriculture and industry, and for …
Publication, 01 March 2018
Young people in Okola, Cameroon, cluster around a Global Positioning System that they are using to create a community map with geographical features.
Future world: addressing the contradictions of planet, people, power and profits
… the globalisation of consumption and increasing demands on food, water and energy resources. What impact will all this have on marine and … implement it? Urbanisation. Population growth is becoming largely an urban phenomenon. Getting city development ‘right’ will make a … framed by the post-2015 development agenda , and in particular the UN Sustainable Development Goals , currently being negotiated by the …
Insight, 07 June 2013
Large dams can bring long-term benefits for displaced communities, says study
… and improved livelihoods. "The main beneficiaries of dams tend to be urban citizens and industries that gain from the improved infrastructure … if there is sufficient political will." As global temperatures rise, sustainable water management will become increasingly critical due to increasing …
News, 05 November 2009
People sit on chairs two metres apart while listening to a man at a lectern
COVID-19: IIED in the media
Article, 14 April 2020