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International Institute for Environment and Development
IIED is an independent, non-profit organization promoting sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination. We work to address global issues such as mining, the paper industry and food systems.
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Legal tools for citizen empowerment: Increasing local participation and benefit in Mali’s mining sector
Stock Code 12554IIED, IIED 2008 Paper 44 Pages Price USD 25.00
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Mali’s mining sector has grown greatly since the early 1990s, and is now the second largest source of export income. But while the state receives significant revenues, at the local level mining operations have been associated with loss of land rights and environmental pollution.

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Communautés locales et « manne aurifère » : les oubliées de la législation minière malienne
Stock Code 12554FIIED, IIED 2008 Price USD 25.00
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Le secteur minier s’est beaucoup développé au Mali depuis le début des années 1990, si bien qu’il constitue aujourd’hui la deuxième source de revenus d’exportation du pays.

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Lessons from Karachi: The Role of Demonstration, Documentation, Mapping and Relationship Building in Advocacy for Improved Urban Sanitation and Water
Stock Code 10560IIED, IIED 2008 Paperback 103 Pages Price USD 20.00
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The aim of this study report is to highlight the importance of mapping and documentation, for effective relationship building and advocacy.

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Peasant seeds, the foundation of food sovereignty in Africa
Stock Code 14565IIED, IIED 2008 68 Pages Price USD 10.00
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Nyéléni, a legendary Malian peasant who excelled in cultivating the land, gave her name to a global forum on food sovereignty organised in Sélingué, Mali, in February 2007. The Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du Mali (CNOP) organised a preparatory workshop in Bamako on the privatisation of seeds in West Africa.

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Towards pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centres of low- and middle-income countries
Stock Code 10564IIED, IIED 2008 45 Pages Price USD 20.00
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This paper outlines a framework for adaptation to climate change for urban area in low- and middle-income nations that is pro-poor and that enhances the capacity of low-income households and community organizations to contribute to such adaptation.

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Fair deals for watershed services in South Africa
Stock Code 13540IIED, IIED 2008 68 Pages Price USD 20.00
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This report reviews the potential of developing payments for catchment protection services in the upper Ga-Selati sub-catchment and the Sabie Sand catchment.

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Semences paysannes, fondement de la souveraineté alimentaire en Afrique
Stock Code 14565FIIED, IIED 2008 68 Pages Price USD 10.00
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Nyéléni, une paysanne malienne légendaire qui excellait dans la culture de la terre, a donné son nom à un Forum mondial sur la souveraineté alimentaire organisé à Sélingué (Mali) en février 2007 qui a permis à plus de 600 participants - paysans, agriculteurs, bergers, pêcheurs, peuples indigènes, travailleurs migrants, femmes, et jeunes - d'affirmer leur désir et leur capacité de nourrir les peuples du monde avec une alimentation saine, de qualité et abondante.

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Decentralisation and local power in Niger
Stock Code 12557IIED, IIED 2008 Paperback 24 Pages Price USD 9.00
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This paper analyses the effects of decentralisation on local politics in a canton in central southern Niger, with a particular focus on the role of two types of actor: the ‘traditional chiefs’, and professionals (high-ranking officials, teachers, customs officers and union activists) originating from the canton.

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Décentralisation et pouvoir local au Niger
Stock Code 12557FIIED, IIED 2008 Paperback 24 Pages Price USD 9.00
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Ce dossier se propose d’analyser les dynamiques suscitées par le processus de décentralisation dans une arène politique locale, ici le canton de Birnin Lallé, dans le département de Dakoro au centre-sud du Niger.

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Decentralisation and boundary setting in Mali: The case of Kita district
Stock Code 12558IIED, IIED 2008 Pages 24 Pages Price USD 9.00
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In the early 1990s decentralisation in Mali was primarily seen as a means of finding a viable political solution to the Tuareg rebellion. In the years that followed, the desire for certain aspects of Western democracy among a section of Mali’s urban elite and Western plans for African development combined to produce a French-style system of territorial decentralisation, albeit one where municipalities are composed of groups of villages.

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Décentralisation et limites foncières au Mali: Le cas du cercle de Kita
Stock Code 12558FIIED, IIED 2008 Paperback 24 Pages Price USD 9.00
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Au Mali, au début des années 1990, la décentralisation fut d'abord un acte politique permettant de proposer une solution viable au problème de la rébellion touarègue. Ensuite, les aspirations aux idées occidentales démocratiques d’une partie des élites urbaines ont rencontré les plans des occidentaux pour le développement de l’Afrique pour donner un système de décentralisation territoriale à la française, mais où la commune est composée d’un ensemble de villages.

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The economic impact of climate change in Namibia. How climate change will affect the contribution of Namibia’s natural resources to its economy
Stock Code 15509IIED, IIED 2007 Paperback 47 Pages Price USD 20.00
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The IPCC recognises Africa as a whole to be “one of the most vulnerable continents to climate variability and change because of multiple stresses and low adaptive capacity. Climate change is likely to exacerbate the dry conditions already experienced in southern Africa.
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