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Listen, think and act: Radio broadcasting to promote farmers’ participation in Mali’s land policy
… presents the tool, its outcomes and lessons learned and was produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 August 2012
An excerpt from the 'Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate resilient drylands development' book (Image: IIED)
Reviving knowledge in India's rainfed farming and livestock systems
… as around 68 per cent of its 142 million hectares of arable land is under rainfed agriculture, accounting for a significant amount of major … paper  can be applied to the Indian interventions in arable land under rainfed farming. Key policy pointers from the briefing paper …
News, 20 August 2015
Group of women sit on the floor and raise their hands up.
How women leaders are getting better social protection for the vulnerable
Insight, 05 July 2022
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Measuring Farmers' Agro-ecological Resistance to Hurricane Mitch in Central America
… with increasing levels of storm intensity, increasing slope and years under agroecological practices, though the patterns of resistance … thresholds. For some indicators agroecological resistance collapsed under extreme stress. …
Publication, 01 January 2002
Aerial view of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands
Demanding attention for the loss and damage from climate change
… countries  (2020), IIED webinar Pocket guide to loss and damage under the UNFCCC , Erin Roberts, Sumaya Ahmed Zakieldeen (2018), ECBI | …
Article, 01 March 2021
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Urban Livelihoods
… class and caste intersect with employment that is often precarious or under-valued, as well as the resourceful solutions that the urban …
Publication, 01 October 2016
Matoke sellers in Uganda. Photo: Bill Vorley
Small producer agency in the globalised market
… crises of the past five years, have placed small-scale producers under the spotlight as part of the answer to creating a more sustainable … reacted to economic modernisation in China and to small-scale farmers under socialist governments , and on agriculture and youth . Provocation …
Project, 14 May 2013
A cooling tower of a power station is framed against the sky
International treaties threaten affordability of climate action: new report
… need to take to fulfil the climate commitments they have signed up to under the Paris Agreement . The report was released to coincide with the …
News, 04 October 2020
The new university in Ségou. Mali's capital city, Bamako, is the nation's political and economic power base – greater decentralisation will bring many benefits (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)
Four challenges facing Mali amid efforts to rebuild
… Last month I spent a fortnight in Mali to get my new research project under way. It was the height of the hot season, before the monsoon rains … zone around the Canal du Sahel.  About 100,000 hectares are currently under controlled irrigation but further investments are planned. In … of power.  The beginnings of a shift in power and activity are under way with the setting up of a University in Ségou in 2012, and new …
Insight, 21 June 2016
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
… against new taxation laws. As a result of a restructuralising process under Nepal’s new federal system of governance, multiple government … as Practical Action) and eventually I had the opportunity to intern under her for a while as she led a research think tank in Sri Lanka …
Article, 15 June 2020