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A demonstration of solar PV products by the Energy and Environment Partnership in Tanzania's southern Iringa Region gathers an audience of all ages (Photo: EEP Southern and Eastern Africa, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Bringing solar out of the shadows
… home and charging mobile phones – would cost $425 million each year. Under the World Bank/IEA model, decentralised systems such as a 100 watt … Tanzania's draft action plan on Sustainable Energy for All is under consultation and echoes many of these promising ideas. Plus the …
Insight, 20 February 2017
Cover for 13528IIED.pdf
Speaking with one voice: the role of small and medium grower’s associations driving change in the South African forest sector
… this too. Yet emerging South African small tree growers still operate under conditions of economic marginalisation - they have to fight for …
Publication, 01 June 2006
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BBOP Biodiversity Offsets and Stakeholder Participation
… must be addressed by the project proponent. Issues that are still under debate are reviewed, and suggestions and source material are …
Publication, 01 May 2009
Workers in a tea plantation. (Photo: Anil Wadghule, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How to support small-scale farmers in negotiations with agribusiness
… with companies. This was the first in a series of events organised under EPIC, which is funded by UK aid from the UK government through its …
Event, 16 April 2018
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 10 Growing from the grassroots: building participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation methods in PARC
… rural work. almost two decades of experience working in Participation under occupation agriculture in rural areas of the West Bank and Gaza. … and Gaza have Palestinian nation that would give them back remained under ... …
Publication, 01 January 1998
Colombia's government and left-wing insurgents sign a historic agreement ending 52 years of conflict. Some commentators suggest the peace process has opened the way for major progress on the SDGs (Photo: Gobierno de Chile, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
SDGs: from adopted framework to political force for change
… clear road maps for turning the goals into action. Multilateralism under strain But the events of 2016 have shaken confidence in … with consensus-based processes such as the SDGs coming under increasing scrutiny. Do the goals respond to the aspirations of …
Insight, 17 February 2017
Cover for 16505IIED.pdf
Investing for sustainable development? A review of investment principles, trends and impacts
Publication, 01 July 2011
Cover for 6053IIED.pdf
Homegarden Systems: Agricultural characteristics and challenges
… of traditional, low input farming in the humid tropics have evolved under conditions of high population densities: wet rice cultivation and … systems allow some degree of soil fertility and pathogen management under permanent land use. The agronomic aspects of wet rice systems have …
Publication, 01 January 1993
Ibadan, Nigeria, a city that has experienced devastating high winds and flooding (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
How risk accumulates in African cities – and ways to break the cycle
Insight, 30 January 2017
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… biodiversity and livelihoods 2003 – 2008 A project analysing how and under what conditions decentralised governance, capacity building and …
Page, 30 September 2022