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The Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation secures houses, sanitation and land rights for members. Communication and participation are central to the way it works (Photo: Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Creative Commons via Flickr)
Do you have the power to influence your own life?
… it comes to solving the world's complex problems – climate change adaptation, poverty eradication – we need everyone to be involved, … are opening a new dialogue bringing members of the artisanal mining community into conversation with the large-scale mining community (LSM) … by the more powerful interests. For the marginalised, conversations based on mutuality understanding and accessibility ( Lederach ) are …
Insight, 06 March 2015
Knowledge programme publications
… ranging from poverty reduction and food security to climate change adaptation. Small-scale farmer strategies to make markets work This … benefi ts and risks of common approaches taken by the development community to 'make markets work' for small-scale farmers. Pro-poor business, development and smallholder empowerment Rights-based versus market-based development: a false dichotomy for small-scale …
Article, 14 May 2013
Green shoots and REDD herrings
… which analyses this, notes that small gains have been made for community control since 2002 in countries like Cameroon, Tanzania and … need. New forest land grabs are being made, for food and fuel. Some 1,000,000 acres in Madagascar may yet be leased to the Korean company … make vital moves towards locally controlled forestry, viable forest-based climate strategies and practical forest governance. …
Insight, 15 October 2009
An image showing a group photo of CBA10 field trip group posing for a photo on a rooftop at the end of a long day during which the delegates made visits to four separate projects in Dhaka where communities are adapting to climate change (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
CBA10 field trips: adaptation in practice
Insight, 27 April 2016
A woman using a hoe
Q&A: Achieving sustainable intensification of agriculture – decisions and trade-offs
… at household level. Although trade-offs happen at national and community level too, we were specifically trying to answer the research … BA: I think it has to be this: farmers have objectives that are based on their resources, and current development policies are hindering …
Article, 17 February 2020
PLA 37: Sexual and Reproductive Health
… February 2000 Guest Editors: Andrea Cornwall and Alice Welbourn The theme section of this edition of PLA Notes builds on previous editions … Children and HIV; UK NGO AIDS Consortium  Helping NGO staff (and then community groups) analyse reproductive health & gender issues World … Hobbs and Mary Simasiku Moving beyond the 'KAP GAP'. A community-based reproductive health programme in Eastern Province, Zambia Gill …
Article, 01 February 2000
Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)
IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
… protected areas conservation for the decade to come. Building on the theme 'Parks, people, planet: inspiring solutions', the congress … services Position protected areas within goals of economic and community well-being, and  Demonstrate how this can be achieved in … Potato Park, where customary management by five communities conserves 1,460 varieties of potato for food security and climate adaptation, this …
Event, 12 November 2014