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For the first time, IIED has produced a bespoke online annual report (Photo: IIED/We are Tangerine)
2014 annual report: online and in print
… connections needed to bridge the key divides across the environment-development landscape. The Annual Report, titled Building bridges for sustainable development , explores some of our work during 2013/14, … Africa Jane Goodall Institute , Uganda Network for Environment and Sustainable Development , Cameroon Zimbabwean Federation of the Urban …
News, 11 November 2014
Bushmeat stew: complexities of a shadowy trade
… the continent. But it’s a bizarrely mixed picture. Both poverty and development seem to be driving the boom. In times of economic growth and … and would allow us to publicly recognise its importance as a form of sustainable livelihood for many of the world’s poor. The need for policy … endangered will be vital to ensure animal numbers are maintained at sustainable levels. The economic crisis will only serve to further embed …
Insight, 01 February 2010
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… over-fishing and climate change. The animation produced by our Sustainable Markets Group  was also designed to promote an online … biocultural heritage territories and the role they play in development, conservation and adaptation was the focus of a visually … data visual examining the relationship between economic growth and urbanisation. Because it contained slightly more complicated data, the …
Insight, 12 January 2015
Cover for 9127IIED.pdf
Profile of Environmental Change in the Lake Manyara Basin, Tanzania, A
… and lessons learned. It also proposes a more systematic approach to sustainable development within the context of decentralisation, taking account of …
Publication, 01 January 2002
Cover for G03642.pdf
Linking Small producers to Modern Markets: Policy and Institutional Mapping Workshop
… Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 May 2007
Children using water pump in Burkina Faso
Global Water Initiative: Burkina Faso
… hectares of irrigation schemes in Burkina Faso (20% of potential development area for large-scale irrigation) 17,000 hectares of new … between 2011-15 in irrigation overall under the Programme for Sustainable Development of Irrigated Agriculture (PNSR) GWI focus dam: … area to: Build or repair multi-use water facilities that would ensure sustainable and equitable access to water Promote good hygiene and …
Project, 16 February 2018
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
… that undermine human rights are unlikely to promote inclusive sustainable development. A country may well receive investments but these do not … benefits. And while international instruments on human rights and on sustainable development have been shaped by different historical …
Insight, 20 October 2014
GWI influence - access and rights to irrigated land - planting rice - Selingue dam - Mali
Global Water Initiative: Mali
… Approximately 2,200,000 hectares are deemed to be suitable for the development of irrigated agriculture in Mali, only 20% of this land is … of purposes, including: production of electricity, agricultural development, better navigation on the Niger river, and the development … councils within our project area. These can be grouped as follows: Sustainable drinking-water supply Water points – including boreholes and …
Project, 16 February 2018
Images of indigenous biocultural heritage territories are profiled in a new photofilm (Photo: IIED)
New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories
… heritage territories promote simultaneous goals of endogenous development and biodiversity conservation, based on indigenous and … in preserving fragile ecosystems. IIED is supporting the development of indigenous biocultural heritage territories as a strategy … and its partners will be showing the photofilm and discussing the development of the territories at a workshop at the World Parks Congress …
News, 11 November 2014
A Chinese journalist interviews fellow journalists in Kenya (Photo: YiDe Media)
China-Africa relations: Fresh perspectives from Chinese journalists on environmental challenges
… Chinese journalists' travel to Kenya in February 2014 to investigate sustainable development issues associated with China's engagement there. Their … public about their overseas impacts. At IIED, we work to promote sustainable and socially beneficial forms of Chinese engagement with …
Insight, 02 May 2014