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The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
IIED's best of 2016: blogs
… Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development February: Our most-read blog of 2016 put … of the New Urban Agenda – in one page. Enhancing women's role in land management decisions March: Large-scale agricultural investments … have identified valuable lessons for China and the rest of the world. What can Southern NGOs teach us about disruptive change? January: Change …
Article, 28 December 2016
CBA12: Key messages
… practice shared innovation, discussed getting climate finance behind what works, and prepared robust narratives on how to take 'lived experience' … inclusive, be able to build climate resilience and would have scope for scaling up. We then explored whether these approaches were …
Article, 11 June 2018
Jockin Arputham, right, signs documents with Stellenbosch Mayor Sidego in South Africa
IIED remembers Jockin Arputham
… of the death of Jockin Arputham . He more than anyone has fought for the rights of ‘slum’/shack dwellers – going back to the early 1970s … Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. More recently, he highlighted what the Sustainable Development Goals could mean for slum dwellers … benefits of developing a slum-dweller led strategy for securing land tenure and services. His most recent blog for IIED was in November …
News, 15 October 2018
Evelyne Flora Latabu shaking a bowl of grains.
The Ugandan diet: food voices and choices
… foods. A photographic exhibition curated by the Sustainable Diets for All programme explored the Ugandan diet through testimonies from … is limited by lack of funding. “I cannot afford to have a variety of what I am supposed to sell and grow,” she says. “If I can get more … cultivate my own food for my restaurant.” Vincent Semakula , 30, works as a chef in Fort Portal Municipality, Kabarole District and buys …
Insight, 24 October 2019
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
… I joined IIED in November 1987 to set up the drylands programme . What was it attracted me to IIED? To be honest, I didn't know about … something of an idea of what things were like then, the IIED budget for 1987 totalled £1.5 million and I was paid £17,500 a year. We had a … wanted to show many of the positive stories around local action and land rights in these extensive dryland regions.  I had been working in …
Insight, 22 June 2015
Lots of people park their motorbikes to gather
Q&A: How COVID-19 is impacting rural Africans in the Sahel
… of us have had problems because of not being able to travel to look for work, but now we’re much freer to move around, though many of the … scarcer and work is harder to find. The factory where one of us works had to shut for a bit because it could neither export its product … reputation and power, so they are also a bit frightened of us. Q: What news of the last farming season? We heard there was a lot of rain. …
Article, 26 May 2021
Women including mining engineer Judith Akorfa Buaba (centre) employed at the Dakete mine, in Ghana (Photo: Gabriela Flores Zavala)
Can mining dig rural women out of poverty in Ghana?
Insight, 08 March 2016
Woman selling vegetables
Agricultural contracts and farmer agency: a shift in perspective
… hand, informal transactions in local to regional markets account for the bulk of staples trading. These transactions can also involve … questions about how farmers can meaningfully exercise agency and what entry points can enable effective interventions supporting farmers’ … inequalities. For example, farmers’ need to earn cash, historical land use patterns and monopolistic conditions can reduce farmers’ …
Insight, 16 May 2021
A group of men having a discussion
Legal tools: sharing lessons from innovation
… necessarily travelling the world to resource-intensive meetings. What is IIED doing? IIED works with practitioners who are developing innovative approaches to … accountable , 6 June 2017 Using community by-laws to secure customary land rights in Kenya , 16 November 2016 Using online technology to … Land acquisitions and rights …
Article, 09 October 2014
It is estimated that Mumbai has the largest slum population of any city in the world, with more than half of its 12 million people living in informal settlements (Photo: Jon Baldock, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why we do 'slum' profiles
… One of the most difficult issues for slum dwellers is to avoid eviction – and beyond this to get secure … from a slum profile means that residents can start asking about what the local priorities are – for example water, toilets, land, waste … languages are spoken; what are the main sources of employment; who works for government, for the formal private sector; who works in …
Insight, 22 February 2016