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Tanzania: participatory training events for small-scale farmers can introduce the concept of climate change and help farmers identify which crops could work well in their area (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS)
From knowledge to action – how top down training is driving bottom-up resilience in Tanzania
Insight, 09 March 2015
Storm watch for Cancun climate talks
Insight, 23 November 2010
Cover for G04113.pdf
FEBA Discussion Paper. Shared goals – joined-up approaches? Why action under the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 needs to come together at the landscape level
… human wellbeing, and the resilience of ecosystems to pressures from climate change or direct human action is essential for a sustainable future. A … to climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable land management and disaster risk reduction. But insufficient coordination … Climate change …
Publication, 01 December 2016
A woman in an orange life jacket sits on the edge of a square pond cage, surrounded by water.
How social protection can support people and sustain fisheries
… workers living in the global South – are becoming more precarious as climate change and overfishing reshape the risks they face. Almost 90% of global … including most small-scale fishers and fish workers. Fisheries management can rebuild and sustain stocks by limiting catch, effort …
Insight, 06 June 2022
Q&A: climate negotiations
… is the biggest opportunity for getting a good, fair and ambitious climate change deal in place. The science is directing us and that is saying we … to deal with harmful, unavoidable and inevitable impacts of climate change. Q. You are a major proponent of the Least Developed … Climate change … Q&A: climate negotiations …
Article, 17 March 2009
Cover for 10174IIED.pdf
Water resources within the Upper Orontes and Litani Basins: a balance, demand and supply analysis amid the Syrian refugees crisis
… of this distinction is crucial for integrated water resources management planning and climate change adaptation. … Climate change …
Publication, 01 December 2016
Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)
Project, 27 July 2018
Solar panels on a floating school, Bangladesh
Understanding the political economy of the Climate Investment Funds
… The Climate Investment Funds are intended to help developing countries pilot low-emission and climate-resilient development. They are led by multi-lateral development … institutional, and financial systems – for responding to climate change. The UK's Department for International Development (DFID)  has …
Project, 17 December 2012
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
… jobs, food security and empowerment as well as resilience to climate change.   Overall, we found a wealth of evidence that investments in … and countries are increasingly unable to adapt to or absorb worsening climate impacts. Greater international support is overdue, but the …
Article, 17 December 2021
Cover for G02521.pdf
The interaction between freshwater ecosystem services, climate change and poverty in the Sahel
… and human systems adapt to many drivers of change, including climate change, demographic and economic change, and changes in natural resource management. While resilience has been observed in both natural … development (or poverty reduction) will only be achieved through an adaptive co-evolution. Water provision and the regulating functions of …
Publication, 01 January 2007