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Women farmers bending over planting crops in a paddy field
Curbing the impacts of COVID-19 on Nepal’s small-scale farmers and seizing opportunities for food system reform
… COVID-19 is putting Nepal’s small-scale producers and landless farmers under strain. These groups depend on the country’s agriculture sector to … the government clarified that farming activity was in fact permitted under the lockdown. So, farmers are back in their fields. But they need … to agriculture. This influx of labourers will put available land under pressure. As demand for land increases, landowners may seek to …
Insight, 11 May 2020
Crop field with man watering the soil.
Reconciling food production and forest conservation: priorities for the UN Food Systems Summit
… that included identifying national priorities to be addressed under each of the five action tracks. In Zambia, dialogues led by the National Food and Nutrition Commission under the leadership of the vice president’s office with support from UN …
Insight, 20 September 2021
A view of Karachi from the film Karachi Rising (Image: Arif Hasan)
Focus on urbanisation issues in Karachi
… series of key policy issues related to urbanisation in Karachi. Also under the intellectual leadership of Arif Hasan (as with our work on … paper , a book and a journal article ), informal textile production under pressure from globalisation (summarised in a working paper ) and …
Project, 17 July 2015
Cover for G03920.pdf
Global Water Initiative Sustainability Assessment (2007-2012)
… an interest in tracking the long]term viability of schemes delivered under these programmes, GWI commissioned two separate reviews to … from both the reviews and concludes that the analysis shows that under certain circumstances community management of point sources can …
Publication, 01 November 2014
View of the city of Delhi at night
The global geography of world cities
… engagement. Table 1 below presents lists of the top 20 cities, ranked under these categories. …
Insight, 09 July 2020
Time zones and travel rules mute voices of least developed countries at Glasgow climate talks
… November (COP26) while the rest will either face lengthy quarantines under current restrictions or will be forced to participate virtually …
News, 13 September 2021
Cover for G03400.pdf
Indigenous benefit-sharing in resource development – the Australian Native Title experience (PLA 65)
… and agreement-making over mining and development that is mandated under the Australian Native Title Act (NTA) of 1993. It evaluates the … table when a resource developer wanted to mine or explore on land under claim. As a consequence, indigenous communities received large … were limited by the predefined processes provided for under the Act. The lack of sufficient resources and expert advice also …
Publication, 01 June 2012
Cover for 15522IIED.pdf
The cost of compensation: Transaction and administration costs of hilsa fish management in Bangladesh
… for about 1 per cent of Bangladesh’s gross domestic~product (GDP). Under its hilsa management plan, fishing is banned for several months a … and administration costs of delivering economic incentives under the hilsa management plan in Bangladesh, in order to better …
Publication, 01 October 2014
Cover for 17604IIED.pdf
Taking action against wildlife crime in Uganda
… Wildlife crime has come under increasing international scrutiny in recent years, with ever more …
Publication, 01 March 2017
Cover for 17454IIED.pdf
Raising the bar on responsible investment: what role for investment treaties?
… and charts possible ways forward. This publication has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 March 2018