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Camilla Toulmin has led IIED since 2004
Camilla Toulmin to step down in 2015
… resilience in cities and local government, on food security and urban markets. Much of our effort goes into bridging local and global …
Insight, 29 October 2014
IIED researchers in Uganda: "IIED works with small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs), municipal governments, pastoral communities, representatives of urban poor federations, smallholder farming groups, and other poorly represented interests" (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Reflections on my time as IIED director
… Saleemul Huq led this process, making the case for why climate change matters hugely for sustainable development. So we ensured that everyone … building resilience.    We now need to do something similar with our urban work at IIED, to embed an understanding of urban issues into all our work on land-use, food and agriculture, green …
Insight, 05 March 2015
The Sustainable diets for all programme recognises that people – with their capacity to innovate and power to drive change – must be at the centre of efforts to reshape our failing food systems (Photo: © Mauricio Panozo of Lucano photography. Bolivia, La Paz)
How people are providing evidence, and influencing to get food policies that work for them
… Getting policymakers to listen  So where to from here? Policymakers, urban and rural local government officials as well as non-governmental …
Insight, 26 April 2018
International days are used to promote awareness and action on important topics. But how does IIED engage with them? (Image: IIED)
Seizing the day without falling off the bandwagon
… and highlight the often neglected circumstances in low-income urban communities. We highlighted our Urban Matters blog , which focuses on inclusive cities, promoted the 254 …
Insight, 19 November 2015
A Bolivian woman stallholder sells potatoes and other vegetables. Bolivian diets are changing, moving away from traditional foods and towards processed foods (Photo: Mauricio Panozo, Lucano Photography)
The Bolivian diet: women’s voices and choices
… As a city councillor, Beatriz has advocated for a law to promote urban gardens, which would encourage the cultivation of vegetables in the houses, schools and municipal spaces of La Paz. Urban and peri-urban agriculture is one strategy to guarantee that people in urban …
News, 08 March 2019
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RRA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Editorial
… weeks or months to complete rather than days. Others are applied in urban rather than rural situations, and yet others are more concerned … · working in the `field', whether it be a farm, a refugee camp or an urban slum; · an emphasis on learning directly from the local …
Publication, 01 January 1988
Men filling plastic containers with water. Niger.
Clean drinking water is about people, not pipes
… an unimproved water source in 2010 was five times greater than in urban areas. The question few people ask is whether the target is even the right one. Does it measure what really matters? New infrastructure is being built in rural villages across … a village has a borehole for the criterion to be ticked. What really matters, though, is whether that borehole actually provides water – or …
Insight, 15 March 2012
A farmer's house and sugar cane field in Cambodia, where there is concern about large-scale investment in sugar plantations driving local people off the land (Photo: Brian Hoffman, via Creative Commons)
Human rights should be at the heart of investment policy making
… to food. Similarly, privatising water supply services may affect the urban poor's right to water. Labour relations and costs may be a key … areas. Much international guidance in social and environmental matters is left to non-binding instruments that cannot be enforced. …
Insight, 20 October 2014
A Chinese journalist interviews fellow journalists in Kenya (Photo: YiDe Media)
China-Africa relations: Fresh perspectives from Chinese journalists on environmental challenges
… is a sign of wealth for Chinese consumers, thus the societal opinion matters," one journalist who researched ivory trade spoke of the power … in protecting the environment. After visiting Karura Forest — an urban forest in Nairobi whose conservation was made possible through … " on Yunnan Information Daily " The protector of the world's largest urban forest : Prof Karanje Njoroge organisation" " Environmental crime …
Insight, 02 May 2014
Annual reports 2001-2006
… Report from IIED's Publications Library IIED Annual Report 2003/04: Urban matters The 2003/04 Annual Report celebrates IIED's work in urban areas over the past 30 years through its Human Settlements …
Page, 18 April 2005