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Woman walking through a field, carrying a bag on her head.
How to green Africa from the grassroots
… adapt and prosper in the face of land shortages, urban migration and climate impacts. People get on with daily survival despite shortcomings … international levels. At a time when COVID-19 has now joined climate change as another ‘problem without a passport’, local capacity and … tree cover, preserving local livelihoods and strengthening landscape management. However, the main challenges are often to change mindsets …
Insight, 04 January 2021
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IIED's best of 2019: blogs
… Greta Thunberg April:  IIED director Andrew Norton hailed the 2019 climate protests as a moment of hope.  Norton said big shifts in world … and content of the post-2020 international framework for biodiversity management is being discussed now. Development and rights-based … are reached, Chinese businesses – the key driver of land use change in Africa – could also bring major innovations for sustainable …
Article, 27 December 2019
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Assessing the effectiveness of investments in climate information services
… ClimDev-Africa is the first programme to support investments in climate information services (CIS) across the continent. It is managed … the African Development Bank, the Africa Union Commission and Africa Climate Policy Centre (part of the United Nations Economic Commission … Climate change … Assessing the effectiveness of investments in climate information services …
Publication, 01 November 2014
People building informal houses on stilts behind rising water.
IIED at WUF11
… rapid urbanisation and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies. It is attended by representatives of national, … UN special rapporteur on human rights of IDPs; Somali Disaster Risk Management Bureau; IIED Over the last decade, the world has witnessed a …
Event, 26 June 2022
Farmers looking at plants
Nature 4 Development – introducing IIED’s new 2020 initiative
… a particular interest in the circular economy and within that, waste management. This has resulted in joint work with Fauna & Flora … in response to scientists and policymakers failing to recognise climate change as a development issue, and that it was an issue hitting poor … Biodiversity, climate and development in the 2020 debate …
Insight, 29 January 2020
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Resource Atlas of Isiolo County, Kenya: Community-based mapping of pastoralist resources and their attributes
… option for participatory planning and decision-making in support of climate change adaptation in the drylands of Kenya. These maps are typically … resources on which to develop byelaws for their protection and good management. The process used in Isiolo County combines digital mapping … Climate change …
Publication, 01 July 2015
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IIED's best of 2020: publications
… .  2 Tackling the triple crisis: using debt swaps to address debt, climate and nature loss post-COVID-19 I ssue paper  Even before … swaps – a system that makes it possible to tackle the debt, climate change and nature emergencies together, in order to reduce poverty and … they are well designed, they can make investments in biodiversity management more financially attractive, for example, by attracting …
Article, 23 December 2020
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Independent Research Forum (IRF): supporting change for a sustainable future
… response both to the 2008 financial crisis and the environmental and climate challenges – required not just an ambitious vision, but also a … to step away from their own interests.  Third, the process was highly adaptive to the needs and demands of policy makers. Each of the three … work, with for example IIED focusing on links with work on climate change, as well as  evaluation , and SEI focusing on  interlinkages …
Project, 14 December 2018
An image of a man faking injury being treated by a Bangladesh firefighter as part of a training exercise on collaborative search and rescue operations, helping the city to respond more effectively to disasters (Photo: Oregon National Guard, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Making the SDG agenda work for LDCs
… Within the village, women – often hardest hit by the impacts of climate change – were allocated land for rearing animals and growing crops. … the families' resilience – their capacity to manage the impacts of climate change, and how far their livelihoods had improved through the … Climate change …
Article, 25 May 2016
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IIED's best of 2019: publications
… goods and services (and are already bearing the brunt of climate change). So why does the development community often ignore biodiversity … community will agree a new 10-year strategy for biodiversity management. Ensuring this works for both biodiversity and for people …
Article, 23 December 2019