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Roasted coffee beans.
World Food Day: how do you keep co-operatives competitive?
… Before the Chavez presidency they were stigmatised as ‘communists’. Under Chavez they are seen as ‘capitalists’. Ideology may have a strong … farming’?. But anyway, understanding and improving the conditions under which small-scale farmers make markets work for themselves , …
Insight, 15 October 2012
Costa Rica has adapted its systems of payments for ecosystem services over the past two decades
Payments for ecosystem services: Costa Rica’s recipe
… He continued: "You should understand that during the last 25 years, under the banner of ‘protecting the environment’ the authorities have … areas with low social development scores, and from properties under 50 hectares. The PES programme has so far had relatively little …
Insight, 29 November 2013
Pa Ousman Jarju, the first Special Climate Envoy to be appointed from a Least Developed Country (Photo: IISD)
Q&A: Why is the Green Climate Fund's pledging meeting important?
Article, 18 November 2014
People participating in a workshop.
Development and Climate Days 2020
Event, 02 December 2020
Carina Millstone makes a Critical Theme presentation to IIED staff in May 2014 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Critical theme: What would business look like in a steady-state economy?
… value: Designing business for a crowded planet from IIED With efforts under way to imagine how a "steady-state" economy – one that provides …
Event, 21 May 2014
Nairobi in Kenya is one of many fast-growing cities across Africa (Photo: Stuart Price/Make it Kenya, Creative Commons via Flickr)
African cities can raise more money. Kenya and South Africa offer useful lessons
… by the government that they do not have to repay. By offering a grant under these conditions, the national government is incentivising …
Insight, 31 October 2018
Women walking along Sélingué dam in Mali, June 2014 (Photo: Lucile Robinson/GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS encourages states to learn from returns on investment of large dams in West Africa
… Large dams in West Africa will be under rare scrutiny as government representatives and economic experts …
News, 25 March 2015
Congolese refugees proudly display the cup they won in a football tournament for youths from refugee communities in Kampala (Photo: Stephen Luke, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Beyond self-reliance: recognising the relationships that matter for urban refugees
… with the way that urban life plays out '. Turning to 'self-reliance' Under pressure from national governments and restricted aid budgets, …
Insight, 07 November 2017
A market takes place in the village of Tiogo next to the Tiogo Forest in Burkina Faso. With much of the food and hand crafts on sale from the forest, the community is dependent on the conservation of the forest to maintain their livelihoods (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Towards a fairer future for conservation
… Just under a year ago, at a meeting attended by 139 heads of state and …
Insight, 05 September 2016
Cover for G01717.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 24 Extracts
… All of them This exercise should only be undertaken if were under the age of 30 years. This group there is a real need to …
Publication, 01 January 1997