6th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA6)

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Community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change focuses on empowering communities to use their own knowledge and decision-making processes to take action. IIED has held a number of annual international CBA conferences in various vulnerable countries to provide learning and sharing spaces to explore the challenges and opportunities and share experience and knowledge from CBA activities amongst practitioners, policymakers, researchers, funders and the communities at risk.
Children with backpacks walking along a path with a building on the left and a forest and looming hills behind.
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The children in Hong Ca commune, Vietnam, know that practising rescue drills can save lives in the event of a real natural disaster.
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The conference theme was communication, and the meeting included ‘out-of-the-box’ sessions on subjects such as blogging, working with the media, and using games to communicate risk.

Screenshot of a picture shared by a participant via twitter during CBA6.
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Given that the theme of the 6th International conference on community-based adaptation to climate change was communications, it's only fitting that participants embraced social media with open arms.
Red die with white dots
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I have no weather forecasts to predict regional rains so I don’t know if I need to invest in crop insurance or not. I gamble and lose.

Ha Thi Ngan, a beekeeper, surrounded by her bee hives.
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Ngan lives in a village called Ri in the remote highlands of Vietnam's Thanh Hoa province. It's beautiful. Everywhere you look is green-green-green, from the forested limestone mountains that look like the humps of long dead dragons to the flat sheets of emerald rice fields that shimmer in the sun.
Man being interviewed and recorded on a video camera.
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Mike’s advice was shared as part of a Dragon’s Den session, where practitioners at the conference worked in groups to come up with a story and pitch it to two journalists as part of the

Boats and floating houses of Cua Van floating village, Vietnam.
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It might talk about the people living in the cave thousands of years ago.

Vietnam: Mangroves break waves and help the people of Dai Hop Commune break even
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Well-fed women smile out from under their hats as they pull in their catch of fish, shrimp and crabs from the mangrove forest. The simple images are in an educational booklet on the benefits of mangroves, with tips on how to grow seedlings.
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We were in Da Loc commune, a sleepy part of Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa province. It’s a place that on a single day witnessed both the fury and the protective power of nature.

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