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New construction sites for housing have been prepared by the government on the hillside above Nhon Hai, but the compensation isn't enough to let people move (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
If you want to go far, go together
Insight, 24 June 2014
Women from Paraguay's Ita Guasu indigenous community discuss their community development plan. Civil debate and value-based decision making will be key to implementing the SDGs (Photo: USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Positioning the SDGs within the politics of national development
… indicators and monitoring protocols – the effort will collapse under its own (considerable) weight. Better to treat the SDGs as a …
Insight, 12 July 2016
A plenary session at COP15 (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
COP15 UN Climate Change Conference
… forward. Resources Costs of adapting to climate change significantly under-estimated - UN climate negotiations should aim for substantially …
Event, 20 December 2009
Balanced diet includes local and imported food, say IIED, Oxfam
… processing, distribution and storage. Produce grown in Africa under the sun and flown to Europe can produce lower emissions than …
News, 03 December 2009
Delegates at CBA8 in Nepal travel to Kirtipur Village, Nawalparasi District to see the effects of climate change as part of the pre-conference fields trips (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
Crowd-sourcing ideas to help community-based adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable
Insight, 01 May 2014
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Struggle of civil society organisations in Pakistan for pro-people legislation
… need to mobilise civil (Amendment) Act was introduced in parliament. Under society and build a broad-based movement to oppose the the bill, …
Publication, 01 January 1970
An image of crouching community members in a village in Champasak province, Laos identify areas where open defecation is taking place ahead of implementing sanitation measures (Photo: Viengsompasong Inthavong/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
An urban approach to 'leaving no one behind'
… global level leaving poor and marginalised groups more likely to fall under the radar. The SDGs are more people-centric and inclusive; …
Insight, 02 June 2016
Agriculture is the mainstay of Malawi’s economy and climate change is expected to impact crop yields and food security (Photo: Martijn.Munneke, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: What’s new about this year’s CBA event?
… the themes of this year’s event? A: The workshop sessions will fall under three areas: Transforming 'lived experience' and local knowledge …
Article, 04 May 2018
Seed industry ignores farmers' rights to adapt to climate change
… Policy in China. “At the same time, this biological diversity is under threat from problems such as drought, floods, pests and diseases, …
News, 07 September 2009
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PLA 53: Tools for influencing power and policy
… govern access to and use of natural resources. This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 01 December 2005