In this issue: big dams in Niger, reducing urban poverty in the global South, biomass energy in South Africa and a house with many rooms...
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The global community has been too slow to limit greenhouse gas emissions and too slow to adapt to the impacts that climate change will bring. Loss and damage are now inevitable. |
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'Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South' is the latest book from IIED's David Satterthwaite and Diana Mitlin. There is a growing recognition that the scale of urban poverty in the global South has been overlooked – and that it is increasing both in numbers and in the proportion of the world’s poor population that live and work in urban areas. This book will be an invaluable resource for researchers and postgraduate students in urban development, poverty reduction, urban geography, and for practitioners and organisations working in urban development programmes.
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Large-scale land acquisitions are increasing in pace and scale, in particular across parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America. This briefing presents the experience of international development, wildlife and human rights practitioners, shared at a symposium on land grabbing and conservation in March 2013.
More new briefing papers:
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Understanding and protecting biocultural heritage innovations
IIED will be hosting a side event in Montreal next month, at the Convention on Biological Diversity Working Group on Article 8(j).
Date: Wednesday 9 October at 13.15pm
The side event will present the emerging findings of research on biocultural innovations, and consider the implications for sui generis systems to protect traditional knowledge innovations and practices. The event is co-organised by IIED, ANDES (Peru) and the Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy (China).
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