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Men filling plastic containers with water. Niger.
Clean drinking water is about people, not pipes
… words adopted will be important for whatever replaces the millennium development goals (MDGs). An obvious topic of discussion will be … countries agreed to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The fine … water target would be measured as the proportion of people with sustainable access to an "improved" water source, meaning something like …
Insight, 15 March 2012
The Environment for Children
Publication, 01 May 1996
Cover for G02176.pdf
Chapter 2 SURVEYING THE FIELD OF SEA
… decade there has been considerable experimentation and innovation in development planning, urban and rural planning, the development and implementation of national sustainable development strategies and the preparation of poverty …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Has agriculture been a winner in the economic downturn?
… Attention must remain focused on the unfinished business of rural development, to improve infrastructure and availability of credit, … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 14 June 2010
COP17 in Durban: Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Christiana Figueres and the President of COP17, South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (Photo: Michael Mazengarb, Creative Commons via Flickr)
United Nations climate change negotiations: IIED at COP17
Event, 20 December 2011
PLA 39 cover
PLA 39: Participatory Communication
Article, 30 September 2000
Sudanese Women selling charcaol. Rita Willaert/ Flickr (Creative Commons)
REDD+: 3 things to consider so men and women share the benefits
Insight, 18 December 2013
Men stand by trays of cocoa beans drying in the sun in western Ghana.
The knowns and unknowns of the global land rush
… land rush within countries. And sustained economic growth and rapid urbanisation in many poorer countries have led to the emergence of … a researcher at the Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) involved with the Land Matrix , pointed out that the …
Insight, 24 October 2012
PLA 32: Participation, Literacy and Empowerment
Article, 31 May 1998
Privatising Nigeria’s power sector
… prices this year - required as part of making grid operation sustainable and commercially viable - will likely be met by more …
Insight, 27 January 2012