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Song, dancing & tomatoes were on the agenda when a CBA9 field trip was hosted by the Likia Conservancy Self-Help Group, which showed participants its fish farming and beehives (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
CBA9 highlights – pre-conference field trips
… explore at first hand issues related to community-based adaptation to climate change, particularly with regards to measuring and enhancing … a 'poster marketplace' summarising projects related to the conference theme. You can see the featured posters on IIED's  Pinterest site … the sessions and other delegates, a gallery of photos and a range of blogs from IIED staff and our partners exploring issues around …
News, 26 April 2015
IIED director Camilla Toulmin enjoys the 12th D&C Days event at COP20 in Lima, Peru (Photo; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change
Insight, 11 December 2014
Ruth Nguli looks at her crop of drought-tolerant beans in Makueni County, Kenya. Developing and sharing climate-smart farming techniques can help communities adapt to climate changes (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How do we measure adaptation?
Insight, 11 March 2015
Entrance to a garden
Taking stock: community responses to COVID-19 in cities
… about their COVID-19 experiences.  This is the latest in a  series of blogs and interviews , curated by IIED senior fellow David … global urban change.  To date, 11 blogs have been published on this theme including nine city case studies. Although these show diverse … These skills are also just what is needed to map vulnerability to climate change impacts in their community and city. Conclusions …
Insight, 19 October 2021
A photo of a man addressing a conference, pictured through the heads of those listening
Leading on nature: can the new Secretary of State deliver bold action on environment and poverty?
Insight, 31 May 2019
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 … will be. Most of those who comment on the SDGs come with a particular theme they want included or strengthened that relates to their interest … 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
CBA5 participants visited Char Kukri-Mukri island on the southeast coast. Here women tend mangrove seedlings destined to provide a barrier against erosion (Photo: B. Koelle)
5th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA5)
Article, 13 April 2011
The Sumatran rhinoceros
World Conservation Congress: key themes and a new leader to watch
… to increase with many of the most vulnerable regions worst hit by climate change. Yet, careful investment in water and soils would reap dividends …
Insight, 17 September 2012
A giant temple bell in Mongolia (Photo: David Berkowitz via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
The IPCC rings the warning bell louder. Is anyone listening?
… in policymaking under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), each IPCC report has provided significant momentum to … This reinforces the fact that mankind is now irrevocably living in a climate-changed world, one some people have dubbed the "anthropocene". … Climate change …
Insight, 02 April 2014
Two people carrying containers on their heads
COVID-19 and the sites of rights resilience
… that reimagining that relation is emerging as an important theme in debates about the future of the human rights regime post … greater emphasis on socio-economic rights and on the human rights/climate change interface, and on confronting issues of socio-economic justice . …
Insight, 26 May 2020