New book : Reducing urban poverty in the global South

'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.

Getting the Engagement of Local Institutions in the UN Development Agenda Post-2015

This working paper looks at the pivotal involvement of local governments in implementing and ‘localising’ the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It argues that the importance of these local governments must be recognised in discussions on the post-2015 sustainable development goals.

More publications:

An approach to designing energy delivery models that work for people living in poverty

Report of Workshop on Bio-cultural Heritage and Traditional Agriculture: Challenges and Possibilities

Turning green the strategic way: the role and potential of strategic environmental assessment in securing a green economy

Land grabbing: is conservation part of the problem or the solution?

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:

Reducing ‘forest footprints’: tackling demand for forest-risk commodities

How can the private sector contribute to delivering climate justice?

South African biomass energy: little heeded but much needed
 

 

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).