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The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is one of the world's largest cities. It is surrounded by rivers and lies only a few metres above sea level. The urban poor living in flood-prone areas are most threatened by climate change (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
The IPCC and an urbanising planet
Insight, 06 November 2014
Jakarta: migrants from rural villages sleeping in an area that they rent for Rp 1.000,- (10 cents Euro) per night per person. There can be more than 50 people living and sleeping in this area at one time (Photo: Henry Ismail, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Stopping rural people going to cities only makes poverty less visible, and stripping migrants of rights makes it worse
… number of national governments that have policies to reduce rural to urban migration has doubled since 1996 . They include many in regions with rapid urban population growth, such as sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.  Yet these … to increase productivity. Providing infrastructure and services (eg water, sanitation, education and health) in densely populated urban …
Insight, 18 March 2015
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Climate change, floods and homes: understanding location preferences in Indonesia
Publication, 01 May 2015
Two community leaders prepare service contracts for a novel container-based sanitation service before installing toilets in users' homes in Cap Haitien, Haiti (Photo: Felipe Jacome)
Learning from the MDGs: improved sanitation and drainage in cities
… The water MDG was widely acknowledged as the furthest from delivering … aimed to 'halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation'.  Across … in Maputo) Differential impacts of sanitation on certain groups (urban poor adolescent girls in Bengaluru, women and girls affected by …
News, 07 October 2015
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
… investments in low and middle-income countries. Urbanisation, rural–urban migration and urban poverty Rural-urban migration continues to attract much interest, … change on Least Developed Countries: are the SDGs possible? The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the United Nations' development …
Article, 31 December 2015
Woman walking through a field, carrying a bag on her head.
How to green Africa from the grassroots
… tenacious ability to adapt and prosper in the face of land shortages, urban migration and climate impacts. People get on with daily survival … CAADP policies focus more on boosting production than ensuring sustainable food security and livelihoods for Africa’s predominantly … smallholder farmers. They need support to reinvest in land, water, soils, vegetation and tree cover, preserving local livelihoods …
Insight, 04 January 2021
This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
2014: the International Year of Family Farming
… we understand the strategic role of family farmers in achieving sustainable development. We are partners in the Forest and Farm Facility … land based resources. Smallholder and family farms play a key role in urban as well as rural markets, and our work on Regoverning Markets … drudgery in agricultural operations. Through our work with the Global Water Initiative  we undertake research and advocacy in West Africa to …
Article, 22 April 2014
The cracked mud of a dried-up reservoir bed, with a dead river-mussel shell in the foreground and an abandoned boat in the background
Strengthening development in the face of the climate crisis and environmental destruction
… environmental destruction – from forest devastation to depleted water supplies – have huge implications for development agencies’ effectiveness, and their collective ability to support sustainable development. Despite growing awareness of these pressures, … health issues such as sanitation, indoor air pollution and urban slum improvements. Five steps to integrate environmental …
Insight, 31 October 2019
Women harvesting brinjal near the Indian city of Gorakhpur. Peri-urban agriculture helps to ensure local food supplies, especially of fruit and vegetables (Photo: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group)
Farming on the city's periphery to enhance resilience
Insight, 09 June 2015
Top blogs of 2018
Best of 2018: blogs
… 1 Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018 January: Our most read blog last … them. Then they can help protect the wildlife we all treasure. 6 Is urban development too complicated for us? May: Informal settlements in … studies of where accounts are beginning to inform policy: the revised water masterplan in Botswana, forest policy in the UK, land use planning …
Article, 27 December 2018