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Climate-induced migration and modern slavery: a toolkit for policymakers (IIED)

Bharadwaj, R., Bishop, D., Hazra, S., Pufaa, E., Kofi Annan, J. (2021). Climate-induced migration and modern slavery: a toolkit for policymakers. IIED, London Anti-Slavery International, London -...

Uncategorized September 30, 2021

The case for treating long-term urban IDPs as city residents (Lucy Earle, Christopher Ward, IIED)

A significant percentage of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who seek safety in towns and cities will not return home. Yet this is a reality...

Uncategorized September 30, 2021

Mining cobalt better (Abbi Buxton, IIED)

While the post-COVID-19 world looks at ‘building back better’, little has changed for artisanal cobalt miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over the last 12...

Uncategorized September 30, 2021

Food Systems Summit: implications for global food governance (Lorenzo Cotula, IIED)

Last week's Food Systems Summit raised questions about global governance models in a policy area fundamental to everyone’s lives. Lorenzo Cotula argues that, without...

Uncategorized September 30, 2021

Biodiversity/Indigenous People/Local Communities – Why traditional knowledge and Indigenous Peoples’ rights must be integrated across the new global biodiversity targets (IIED)

Krystyna Swiderska Most of the earth’s biodiversity is located on the territories of the world’s half-billion Indigenous Peoples, who manage about a quarter of the...

Uncategorized August 20, 2021

Urban Poverty – Reducing urban poverty – lessons not learnt? (IIED)

David Satterthwaite and Diana Mitlin What have we learned from over five decades of initiatives meant to reduce urban poverty? And what, if any, benefits have been...

Uncategorized August 19, 2021

Rethinking urban climate resilience: time for a reset? (IIED)

Aditya Bahadur and Thomas Tanner write: For the first time in the history of the world, more people live in towns and cities than in...

Uncategorized July 25, 2021

Envisioning a better future for The Gambia (IIED)

Lamin B. Dibba writes: About a decade ago, The Gambia experienced a devastating drought. Prolonged dry spells lasted for years, rainfall was late, erratic...

Uncategorized July 25, 2021

African social movements call on UN food summit to give people back control (IIED)

Million Belay writes: Since the end of 2019, the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) has been one of the most talked-about events. The appointment of Agnes Kalibata, president...

Uncategorized July 25, 2021

Five key questions for making the Global Goal on Adaptation work for local people and places (IIED)

Emilie Beauchamp writes: The 2015 Paris Agreement set out that a Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) would be established, presenting an adaptation equivalent to the global...

Uncategorized July 25, 2021

BUSINESS UNSUAL – Calling for business unusual: why local leadership matters (Marek Soanes, Simon Addison, Clare Shakya, IIED)

While most international and national development interventions aim to benefit local people, they remain overwhelmingly top-down and exclude the perspectives of poor women and...