Through research and engagement with displaced communities in Mafraq City in Jordan and Lusaka in Zambia, as well as ...

A majority of the world’s estimated cobalt reserves are in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with 10-30% of its annual production mined artisanally (Photo: Fairphone, via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) ...

Most of the world’s refugees and internally displaced persons live in towns and cities, while donors and aid agencies channel ...

In the past decade, the number of displaced people worldwide has more than doubled, exceeding 122 million. Persecution, human rights violations, conflict and climate change have driven millions from ...

The four countries that have submitted updated targets are the United States (PDF), Brazil (PDF), Uruguay (PDF) and the ...

This paper discusses the possibilities and constraints for adaptation to climate change in urban areas in low- and middle-income nations. These contain a third of the world’s population and a large ...

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This series of insights and interviews, curated by IIED research associate David Satterthwaite, started in early 2020 and was intended to be an update to the IIED working paper 'The transition to a ...

Scientific evidence is mounting that rangeland degradation is intensifying and expanding in China’s rangelands, as a consequence of 30 years of inappropriate policies, as well as climate change. Such ...