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Women walk along a red dirt road in Benin.
Is the tide turning for Africa’s investment treaties?
… very little. This asymmetry between investor rights and obligations under the treaty compounds wider imbalances in international law. …
Insight, 08 March 2013
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2017 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2017: publications
… shows that in other sectors, agricultural smallholders may lose out under increasingly automated agribusiness as distribution systems are …
Article, 28 December 2017
Man talking while two others take notes
IIED research and evidence in academia
… This case comment discusses an investor-state arbitral award rendered under the bilateral investment treaty between Kenya and the United …
Article, 23 September 2020
A group of women in a forest smile as they hold out handfuls of coffee beans
Producer agency and voice in certification schemes
… to participate in governance). The principles have recently been under revision to make sure they are reflecting the expectations that …
Insight, 26 March 2021
REDD: Protecting climate, forests and livelihoods
… is as yet no formal mechanism for REDD with international recognition under the Kyoto Protocol, but voluntary REDD projects are starting round …
Article, 14 May 2009
Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
Article, 12 November 2021
Protecting needs of forest-dependent people is key to saving Congo Basin forests
… rights. Currently, only a small fraction of the land in the region is under community control. It is vital they allow indigenous peoples, who …
News, 08 February 2019
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PLA 61: Tales of shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa
… of Participatory Learning and Action. This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 01 November 2010
Staying south – trade, aid, and the recession
… this May - rumours are abound that DFID will come much more closely under foreign office control. This can only result in further linking …
Insight, 30 March 2010
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PLA 54: Mapping for change: practice, technologies and communication
… and united community of practitioners. This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 31 March 2006