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Some of the publications published by IIED during 2017 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2017: publications
… finance reaching the local level delivers effective, efficient and sustainable results.  This 48-page working paper explores the flows of … more: IIED is researching the benefits and challenges of devolving development and climate finance to the local level , and is helping to … dynamics in the region. Read more: IIED's project on the impacts of urbanisation and rural transformations on food systems is bringing …
Article, 28 December 2017
Women harvesting brinjal near the Indian city of Gorakhpur. Peri-urban agriculture helps to ensure local food supplies, especially of fruit and vegetables (Photo: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group)
Farming on the city's periphery to enhance resilience
… Rapid urbanisation in the Indian city of Gorakhpur has created strong pressure … residential and commercial use, as well as for infrastructure development.   Much of this land-use change is occurring around the city …
Insight, 09 June 2015
Fishermen hauling in a net
Accounting for small-scale fisheries and the ocean
… undermining the country’s ability to fulfil its commitments to sustainable development (such as SDG14 (life under water), SDG2 (zero hunger) and … reduces the potential for developing effective marine plans for sustainable stock management.  2. What is the economic impact of the …
Project, 05 August 2019
Earth from space
Fifty years on, 'Only One Earth' rings true
… marks 50 years since the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) commenced its work. At that time, the idea of … the years, research including our own added to the evidence base for sustainable development. Today, it is widely accepted that protecting … thrives are the same thing.  Indeed, with the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, this became the dominant …
Insight, 08 June 2021
Community participation, with a strong focus on women, such as this women's savings group in Southern India, is vital to develop slum-friendly cities (Photo: Maria Andersson/Individuell Människohjälp, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
What might slum dwellers want from the SDGs?
… SDGs is limited to what we can do – what is meaningful, useful and sustainable – and implementable. So our goal is not slum-free cities but … doing now. Will action on the SDGs be any better than the Millennium Development Goals? So much high talk of all the goals in last 15 years …
Insight, 05 October 2015
Cover for 8118IIED.pdf
Regulation of private sector participation in urban water supply and sanitation: realising social and environmental objectives in developing countries, The
… externalities; provide mechanisms whereby water consumption is sustainable and allocated efficiently between alternative uses; and, …
Publication, 01 January 1999
People observe burnt down structures
Fire disaster makes more than 1,000 homeless in Freetown
… houses, where illegal electricity connections dominate. Unplanned development is a major feature of informal settlements in Freetown where …
Insight, 29 March 2021
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
… and, if so, what governance mechanisms are there to implement it? Urbanisation. Population growth is becoming largely an urban phenomenon. Getting city development ‘right’ will make a difference to equality, prosperity and … framed by the post-2015 development agenda , and in particular the UN Sustainable Development Goals , currently being negotiated by the …
Insight, 07 June 2013
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Climate change responses in Zimbabwe: local actions and national policy
… Climate variability and change pose a significant threat to sustainable development and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe. The country is … concludes with a set of recommendations aimed specifically at development practitioners and policymakers interested in supporting more …
Publication, 01 January 2013
The front cover of IIED's 2016/17 annual report (Image: IIED)
IIED's 2016/17 annual report highlights the institute's impact
… In Mozambique, IIED has encouraged small-scale loggers to commit to sustainable forest management by getting them to operate  20-year … Efficiency Initiative . IIED is also advising the United Nations' Sustainable Energy for All initiative on their new research on finance flows.   Providing tools to help deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The SDGs provide a set of universal goals …
News, 17 October 2017