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Which is the best approach when working for sustainable energy for all? (Photo: Bernard Polet, via Flickr)
How can we finance sustainable energy for all?
… is the best approach when working for sustainable energy for all? Under what circumstances can it be made to work? These are some of the …
Insight, 15 December 2014
A woman farmer
Women pay heavier price for big dams
… women had to spend hours collecting water from lorry tankers. Work is under way to put in pumped water, which will ease the burden.  Women say …
Insight, 08 March 2016
NGOs: friend or foe to markets for the poor?
… resources to support such businesses to take over local markets — under the motto of supporting poor farmers or small-scale producers.” …
Insight, 06 April 2011
A small fishing boat off the Albanian coast (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Three things I learnt from a small-scale fisherman in Albania
Insight, 23 January 2018
Lushoto, Tanzania: Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into agroforestry. Here a tree nursery group discusses the challenges and opportunities (Photo: P Kimeli/CCAFS)
Look beyond the trees: the SDGs will have to do more than just 'protect forests'
Insight, 04 November 2014
Pre-emptive controlled burning in Belize is preventing severe uncontrolled wild fires during the driest months (Photo: Toledo Institute for Development and Environment)
Flaming parrots and palmetto palms
… constitute property equal in legitimacy to any other form of property under Belizean law. Promoting locally-controlled forestry The government …
Insight, 08 February 2016
Why markets matter
… publications (including co-ordinating a rigorous peer review process) under the Shaping Sustainable Markets Series. Visit the shaping …
Insight, 19 March 2012
Report shows how secret land deals can fail to benefit African nations – and how to make them better
… is that their customary rights may have no or little recognition under national law. "Even in the better negotiated contracts, the gap …
News, 31 January 2011
PLA 31 cover
PLA 31: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
… organisations and in conflict situations? This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 01 February 1998
A family guards their crops from wild animals on the boundary of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Conservation works better with social justice
… but poor in financial resources to implement their commitments under the international biodiversity conventions. It is also partly …
Insight, 20 August 2014