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Woman bends over a seedbed.
IIED at the 2022 Nature-based Solutions Conference
… Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP): Indigenous food solutions to the climate crisis Taking adaptation to the ground: a story of accessing climate finance through a Small Grants Facility to support … loss Money where it matters for people, nature and climate: driving change through support for local level decision-making over resources …
Event, 05 July 2022
Miners on a steep hillside mine tungsten
Secure land rights are now more important than ever
… significantly impacting and influencing responses to issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and achievement of the Sustainable … many ways, helped to lead us to the current precipice of the larger climate crisis, of which the pandemic is merely a symptom (PDF) . A new … Natural resource management …
Insight, 29 January 2021
Street scene, Karachi, Pakistan. Photo by Fareena Chanda
Can we change the goals of development without changing the implementers?
… international agencies to achieve. But it seems to think that radical change can be achieved without changing existing institutional and … does it pay sufficient attention to biodiversity or water resource management or rural development. I come to this with a concern that … I also have a concern, but also that (rural and urban) poverty and climate change adaptation and mitigation get the attention they need. It …
Insight, 09 July 2014
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… at the Intercontinental Hotel Nairobi. 1 The Kenyan National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) and the Pastoralist Parliamentary Group … the publication, entitled 'Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate-resilient drylands development' . A product of research from … the environment." Many dryland people know how to live with climate change and work with variable rainfall. They recognise variability as an …
News, 27 April 2015
Demonstrating the use of alternative building materials at the Jinja Building Materials Training Centre, Uganda. (Photo: David Dodman)
Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience
Insight, 17 March 2014
Bangladeshi climate negotiator Qazi K Ahmad
Q&A: World leaders must abandon their narrow political interests to deliver the best deal at COP21
… sea level  and its coastline stretches along some 700 kilometres. Its climate is temperate, wet and the rainy season is heavy. The country has suffered a lot from impacts of climate change and rising sea levels will affect about one third of the country. … Climate change …
Article, 24 November 2015
Cover for G03171.pdf
Planning and costing of agricultural adaptation in the integrated hill farming systems of Nepal
… gap in scientific evidence regarding the effects of future changes in climate patterns and options for the future, the community-based … supporting communities in undertaking adaptations to climate change, are currently inadequately disseminated. While the generation of … improved practices for integrated soil, land, hedgerow and water management – for instance, through water harvesting and small-scale …
Publication, 01 September 2011
Debra Roberts will become the latest 'outstanding woman in development' to deliver the Barbara Ward Lecture
Champion of urban climate action to deliver IIED's 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture
… is lead author of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report . She is also currently co-chair … widely in the fields of urban open space planning, environmental management and urban climate protection. About the Barbara Ward Lecture … Champion of urban climate action to deliver IIED's 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture …
News, 19 July 2016
Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)
Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management
… or which deliver public goods. Both PES and CST involve a reward to change behaviour. While CSTs benefit primarily the person receiving the … land practices in watersheds to provide cleaner water, and increased climate resilience in supply chains by planting trees in small coffee … Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management …
Project, 26 April 2016
A woman hands protective equipment to another woman.
Engaging pastoralist communities through citizen movements to amplify their voice
Article, 11 December 2020