Webinar
Climate activism in the time of COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has forced climate campaigners to reflect. With social distancing measures preventing protesters from taking to the streets, the movement is finding other ways to be heard.
Join us for an online event on Thursday, 14 May with climate lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin, IIED's Sam Greene and Andrew Norton to discuss how the climate movement has mobilised online and whether the long-term goals of activism will change as a result of this global shock.
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Guest blog by Jorge Vladimir Garcia
Citizen-led research serves up answers on what Bolivian food vendors want
Guest blogger Jorge Vladimir Garcia describes the outcomes and challenges of research, led by traditional food vendors themselves, on what might help keep market eateries in La Paz popular in the face of rising competition.
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"Rather than the non-scientists being simply data collectors, as we often see in crowd-sourcing experiments, we tried our hand at something more radical: involving people from the beginning and letting them decide the research objectives and questions."
– Jorge Vladimir Garcia
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Project
Nature 4 Development: improving evidence and dialogue on biodiversity and development
Biodiversity is being lost at alarming rates. But the so-called biodiversity crisis is also a development crisis. We're assessing the evidence that investing in nature delivers development outcomes for poor people, and enhancing dialogue between conservation and development communities.
Find out more about the project and contribute to the evidence review
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Take the survey
IIED policy briefing survey
We want our research to have the maximum impact, so we would like to get your views - what makes a good briefing, when do you read them and what would you like to see in an online version of a briefing?
This survey should take about 10 minutes to complete and will provide us with valuable information to help us shape the content and format of our briefings.
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Guest blog by Arif Hasan
Karachi, informal settlements and COVID-19
From Karachi, guest blogger Arif Hasan reports on how the city’s informal settlements are managing the COVID-19 lockdown and discusses how existing government structures can support the city’s settlements during COVID-19 recovery, and beyond.
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Research paper, 18 pages
The voices of women cooks in food markets in La Paz
Bolivian diets have changed significantly in recent years as a result of urbanisation, increased purchasing power, and changes in consumer preferences. This paper presents the results of research carried out together with women vendors in markets in La Paz. Focusing on the voices of the women, through discussions and workshops, and through surveys conducted with customers, we gained valuable insights about the women’s needs and concerns and about their customers’ preferences.
Download the paper in English / en español
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Briefing
Financing Myanmar’s fisheries through fiscal reform
The hilsa shad is one of Myanmar’s most commercially valuable fish species, providing income for thousands of artisanal fishing households in some of Myanmar’s most impoverished areas. By increasing revenue collection efficiency and adapting current tools to better target actors nearer the top of the hilsa value chain, the government of Myanmar could triple current revenues and use these to support more sustainable and inclusive hilsa fisheries.
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