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Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
… resilience and disaster response into social protection systems in India, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Fiji, Philippines and Peru (among … climate; promoting climate-resilient development in rapidly expanding urban areas; and supporting migration with dignity and security for …
Insight, 06 March 2019
This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
2014: the International Year of Family Farming
… (SIFOR) we work with indigenous and smallholder farmers in China, India, Kenya and Peru to revitalise traditional knowledge-based — or ' … land based resources. Smallholder and family farms play a key role in urban as well as rural markets, and our work on Regoverning Markets …
Article, 22 April 2014
For the first time, IIED has produced a bespoke online annual report (Photo: IIED/We are Tangerine)
2014 annual report: online and in print
… and Sustainable Development , Cameroon Zimbabwean Federation of the Urban Poor , Zimbabwe Dialogue on Shelter for the Homeless in Zimbabwe … for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) , China Lok Chetna Manch , India Chinese Academy of Forestry and the Global Environmental Institute …
News, 11 November 2014
A man transports logs by bicycle. Services provided by informal economies, such as small-scale logging, are often not integrated into plans for green growth (Photo: Jolien Schure/CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Informal economy and green growth conference pinpoints need for new policy agenda
… illustrated how people in the informal sector, from Colombia to India, are beginning to organise to protect their rights.  Conference … Africa Club A different approach to policy , by Sally Roever, WIEGO Urban Policies. Other resources Post-event report:  Informality and …
News, 31 March 2016
A farmer in the Potato Park, Peru (Photo: Adam Kerby)
A marriage to save the earth: Farmers and researchers innovate to conserve biodiversity
… of China, the drylands of Kenya and the Himalayan foothills in India have found it difficult to produce food in a changing climate, … These new varieties, along with innovations to link farmers to urban consumers, have increased incomes by 30 per cent compared to … , Kenya Forestry Research Institute (Kenya) , and Lok Chetna Manch (India) Findings of the SIFOR baseline study in Peru and China will be …
Insight, 07 October 2014
IIED's Krystyna Swiderska discusses the latest research on how indigenous people adapt to climate change at a side event at the 2016 UN climate conference in Marrakech (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
Indigenous people use own knowledge to boost food yields despite climate change, research finds
… knowledge and crops of indigenous communities in Peru, China, India and Kenya, are not only helping to maintain yields but actually … to drought and pests, and conserved hundreds of landraces. Links with urban ecological restaurants have tripled farm incomes and revitalised …
News, 22 November 2016
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PLA Notes 23 Section on Participatory Approaches to HIV/AIDS Programmes
… was used in a non-formal education project in Bangladesh and an urban environmental project in India. A paper outlining how a participatory approach was used to …
Publication, 01 June 1995
Young people in Okola, Cameroon, cluster around a Global Positioning System that they are using to create a community map with geographical features.
Future world: addressing the contradictions of planet, people, power and profits
… implement it? Urbanisation. Population growth is becoming largely an urban phenomenon. Getting city development ‘right’ will make a … and take advantage of the potential environmental benefits of urban density? Economics, markets, financial flows. With ‘rich’ … in Nepal with the funds to tackle climate change adaptation , to India’s biometric database designed to implement a social welfare system …
Insight, 07 June 2013
PLA 26: General Issue
… Continuing the policy theme, two papers describe the use of PRA in urban and rural communities in Switzerland, a country under-going … Maja Hürlimann and Heinz Jufer How to deal with 1012 Ideas: PRA in an urban community in Switzerland Peter Schmidt Matrix ranking: a means to … with STDs and AIDS: The Mother Saradadevi Social Service Society, India Jaya Shreedhar Participatory livelihood monitoring in Southern …
Article, 31 May 1996
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Housing Finance and Resource Mobilization
Publication, 01 January 1996