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Cover for 12574IIED.pdf
Understanding agricultural investment chains: Lessons to improve governance
… is an important step in that direction. This report has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 March 2014
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From legal caravans to revising the Mining Code: Lessons from experience with legal empowerment in communities affected by mining, Mali
… into the revision of Mali’s Mining Code. This paper has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. This …
Publication, 01 March 2014
Woman bends over to put a small plastic cup in a cooking pot, which is on a stove.
Tailored cooking solutions to close the gender gap
Insight, 11 April 2022
Group of people sitting on the floor, discussing research in Kibera
Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda – Lessons on Understanding Risk and Building Resilience
… 2015 and 2016, International Alert and KDI have been working together under the ESRC-DFID funded programme Urban ARK to examine the … New infrastructure and services developed in the last two years under a multi-sector program delivered by the Ministry of Devolution and … livelihood, and business opportunities. The relocation process under KENSUP disrupted people’s access to information and networks by …
Insight, 20 October 2016
Fishermen hauling in a net
Accounting for small-scale fisheries and the ocean
… its commitments to sustainable development (such as SDG14 (life under water), SDG2 (zero hunger) and SDG8 (decent work). Improved …
Project, 05 August 2019
The author with cocoa farmers in Ghana. Farmers on average receive 3 per cent of a chocolate bar price and many are dependent on a single commodity for their livelihoods (Photo: Marisa Camargo)
Zero deforestation supply chains: promoting sustainable chocolate
… We are exploring the range of benefits associated with growing cocoa under agroforestry systems, including long-term higher yield, ecosystems … be shared along the chain. This has involved identifying who benefits under the current arrangements and recognising that some of those …
Insight, 16 September 2015
A Congolese vendor sells handkerchiefs on the pavement in central Kampala. Congolese refugees dispersed throughout the city often lack the social and economic support networks necessary to find work or to start a business (Photo: William Monteith/IIED)
Refugee livelihoods in Ugandan cities: mind the gap between policy and practice
… asylum seekers , doubling from 500,000 in 2015.  Progressive – but under pressure The country's 2006 Refugee Act, establishing … (PDF)  and held up as a global 'model' .  But this model is being put under increasing pressure by heavy influxes of refugees fleeing the …
Insight, 22 March 2017
The road from Lomié in Southeast Cameroon (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Cameroon's real indomitable lions are in the forest
… rights. Many communities now have secure 'community forest' areas under Cameroon's forest law (although the land area under community control is still only 1.18 per cent of the country's …
Insight, 20 March 2017
Saleemul Huq, left, discusses 2015's big issues with negotiators and ambassadors from the Least Developed Countries in New York in early April (Photo: Claire Hatfield/IIED)
2015: a critical year for the Least Developed Countries
… come together in 2015, each with their respective negotiating tracks under the United Nations. The relevance of all four tracks, their … and The fourth and final track is about disaster risk reduction under the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) which met in Sendai, Japan, … at COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009.  LDCs have been identified under the convention as being the countries that are most vulnerable and …
Insight, 17 April 2015
The endangered Ryukyu Black-breasted Leaf Turtle has been designated as a National Natural Monument of Japan (Photo: Patrick Randall, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Global spotlight on biodiversity as agreement of post-2020 deal for nature nears
… stakeholders all over the world will be celebrating their successes under the Convention and taking stock of what has been achieved, what is …
News, 21 May 2018