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New Hope for Indian Food Security? The System of Rice Intensification
… has improved rice yields significantly and expanded the area under which rice is cultivated. However, in the last 20 years yields and~the area under rice have stagnated. The two most significant reasons for this …
Publication, 01 November 2009
Thousands of workers assemble and test fiber optic systems in a Chinese factory (Photo: Steve Jurvetson, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Governments in developing countries need to act now to avoid technology's threat to jobs
… shows that in other sectors, agricultural smallholders may lose out under increasingly automated agribusiness as distribution systems are … those less skilled. Workers will lose protection and bargaining power under the on-demand 'gig economy', which will increasingly operate at …
News, 07 August 2017
Nazhat Shameem Khan, Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and chief COP23 negotiator, addresses the LDC Group and chair Gebru Jember Endalew. IIED principal researcher Achala Abeysinghe, who provides legal support to the LDC Group chair, is pictured right (Photo: Collin Beck)
LDCs approach Fiji COP with high expectations
Insight, 01 November 2017
What do we want to measure?
What does successful adaptation look like, and what do we want to measure in the context of adaptation, national development and SDGs?
… has integrated climate change indicators into its national indicators under its output budgeting tool, used by the Ministry of Finance, …
Event, 28 June 2018
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Poverty lines in Greater Cairo: underestimating and misrepresenting poverty
… because the household survey data which inform poverty-line studies under-sample people living in informal settlements, as they are based on census data which under-count the populations of informal areas. …
Publication, 01 May 2009
Clearing up after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Women and children, the elderly and people living in informal settlements may be especially vulnerable in an urban crisis (Photo: anjetika, Creative Commons via Flickr)
New research funded on protecting the vulnerable in urban humanitarian crises
… Following a selection process, seven projects are now funded and under way:  In Nigeria, Bayero University and the Lovatt Foundation will … collaborations.  Two further calls for proposals will be issued under the Urban Crises Learning Fund, in late June and September 2016. …
News, 23 June 2016
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Towards a Transformative Post‐2015 Development Agenda - retreat 6
… an informal setting for open and substantive exchange of views (under Chatham House Rule) on issues critical to framing the global …
Publication, 01 February 2015
Groups of people gather around tables and talk
Save the date for 2020 Development and Climate Days
News, 09 November 2020
Rural communities in Kenya are increasingly being affected by climate change, limiting opportunities for development. (Photo: Robin Wyatt)
Development and Climate Days 2018
… host partners aiming to influence the ‘ambition mechanism’ processes under the UNFCCC – particularly the Talanoa Dialogue and global … enlarged . Programme and themes The parallel sessions were arranged under four themes that are central to developing resilience to climate … challenges or emerging opportunities. Participants in the sessions under this theme used their experience, evidence and learning to develop …
Event, 08 December 2018
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Addressing the impact of large-scale oil palm plantations on orangutan conservation in Borneo: A spatial, legal and political economy analysis
… within undeveloped oil palm estates. This project has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 July 2017