Land, investment and migration: a portrait of village life in Mali
The effects of the climate crisis, new technologies, and land grabs have altered the livelihoods and prospects of villagers living in Central Mali.
Join us for an online event with Camilla Toulmin, Bara Guèye and Professor Nicholas Stern on 17 June, World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, to discuss how people survive and thrive in the uncertain and risk-prone Sahel.
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Blog by Xiaoting Hou Jones
Finding solutions in nature for climate change
On the recent International Day of Biological Diversity, IIED hosted a multi-stakeholder webinar on how to work with nature to mitigate and adapt to climate change and halt biodiversity loss. IIED senior researcher Xiaoting Hou Jones chaired the event, and she shares some highlights from the discussions in this blog.
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"We need to develop approaches that reflect the complexity and scale of the challenges and work for climate, nature and people. Nature-based solutions (NbS) are part of the solution"
– Alex White, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
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Blog by Rosalind Goodrich
Facing a COVID-19 future: listening and learning to inform the ‘new normal’
Like many organisations, IIED has spent the last few weeks thinking about how COVID-19 will have an impact on its work in the short and longer term. Here, we reflect on some key issues.
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Blog by David Satterthwaite
Internal and international influences on urban change
In the latest blog in the series on a transition to a predominantly urban world, David Satterthwaite takes a closer look at drivers and influences of urban change.
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Guest blog by Thierry Berger and Emily Polack
Using technology to overcome challenges for farmers in value chains
Value chains are structured in ways that are unfavourable to smallholder farmers who often struggle to access finance, inputs and markets. An IIED webinar discussed how smallholders in East Africa can use technology to overcome those challenges and negotiate with buyers and input and finance providers from a position of strength.
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Reflect & Act, 2 pages
Every voice counts in a changing climate
The ‘Stronger Voices’ project has developed community-based planning tools for local government, community members, cooperatives and civil society organisations to identify the climate priorities of marginalised groups and find solutions if these priorities are not being met. The tools take the form of a participatory workshop conducted in local languages, taking participants through a step-by-step process that enables different groups to identify and articulate their concerns, understand how gender roles affect the communities’ resilience and develop an action plan.
This Reflect & Act explores the key lessons learnt, and plans for next steps
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Case study, 30 pages
The use of dialogue within IIED’s work
This report is a first attempt to generate learning to illuminate current practice and inform future work. It explores the different definitions, functions and features of dialogue and examines the theory of change behind IIED’s dialogue-based initiatives, while findings from two case studies examine their effectiveness. The report concludes with key recommendations: support a new common language or framework to analyse dialogue; create common guidelines for designing dialogues; and invest in systematic learning and capacity building for staff.
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