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Alternatives to large land acquisitions in developing nations
… that can be mutually beneficial. It discusses these options under six broad headings: contract farming, management contracts, tenant …
News, 18 June 2010
Villagers dig out a silted up water tank, paid for by India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Photo: Mackay Savage, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Finding solutions for less poverty and better ecosystems
… fails to receive widespread political support and is often under-funded. In contrast, social objectives linked to poverty reduction …
Insight, 15 December 2015
Shift power to people to preserve natural world, urges report
… key to their lives and livelihoods." Historically, biodiversity was under various forms of community management but today rules devised and …
News, 08 October 2008
Solar-radiation management aims to reduce the amount of solar energy warming the planet by blocking the sun with tiny particles (Photo: Mike, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Geoengineering and development – what price on equity and justice in the coming climate culture wars?
Insight, 20 December 2017
Nepalese women carry wood harvested sustainably from a forest. Forests cover nearly half of Nepal (Photo: Bikas Rauniar/Department for International Development, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
REDD+ in Paris – what could be in it for people and forests?
… researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . The research done under 'Inclusive REDD+' (gender and private sector) and 'Testing REDD+ …
Insight, 27 November 2015
Farmer stands in her field of groundnuts boarded by maize in Malawi
Democratising food and agricultural research
… and environments . What IIED did Several projects were carried out under an international action-research initiative, 'Democratising the …
Project, 17 August 2012
Three men stand on a bridge over an open culvert
Q&A: Monitoring climate change adaptation
… about after 2030? What happens when we get to the mid-century point? Under new and very different climatic conditions, existing incremental …
Article, 06 December 2019
PLA 42: Children's Participation - Evaluating Effectiveness
PLA 42: Children's Participation - Evaluating Effectiveness
… a partnership between children and adults. This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 30 September 2001
Forest farmer representatives from eight Southeast Asian countries exchange experiences with one of the branches of Tree Bank Foundation in Central Thailand (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
In the king's wake
… and Cooperatives copied the Tree Bank Foundation's model. The bank (under the same name, Tree Bank) offers loans to farmers, where trees are …
Insight, 20 December 2016
Brazil's favelas are a legacy of a more passive resistance reflecting an unwillingness to plan for anticipated population growth (Photo: Chris Jones, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Exploring inclusive urbanisation and other migration crises
… cities are a legacy of how urbanisation was actively discouraged under apartheid, while Brazil's favelas are a legacy of a more passive …
Insight, 28 October 2015