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Women in Ahmedabad, India, collect rubbish from 6,656 households that make up the slum area of Juna Vadaj, illustrating the energy and innovation that informal economies can bring to the sustainable development agenda (Photo: Pritpal Randhawa for STEPs)
Development frontiers
… Be it at the global level, through national frameworks or community based actions , new perspectives and novel solutions are the … . Put simply, the world faces a set of 'wicked problems' such as climate change, poverty and fragility. They are 'wicked' because the solutions …
Insight, 21 March 2016
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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012
… Using Ecosystems and Traditional Knowledge to Help People Adapt to Climate Change: Building the Evidence Base This workshop will evaluate the evidence base and examine the emerging role of ecosystem-based adaptation, agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge. Krystyna …
Event, 16 August 2012
Reforestation program in Guatemala (Photo: Enrique Varahona)
Forest and Farm Facility Phase I
… ecological know-how (to restore landscapes and adapt to and mitigate climate change); and social organisation (to maintain and enhance cultural … committee that ensures representatives of local forest family, community and indigenous rights-holder groups take control. FFF Phase I …
Project, 29 May 2014
Farmers and scientists from Ethiopia and Peru demand indigenous approach to conservation
… reduce poverty and help communities mitigate and adapt to climate change. "The declaration encourages action research and South-South … of the Communities of the Potato Park, a pioneering example of community based conservation of agricultural biodiversity. Read the full …
News, 01 October 2009
Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… the 38 indigenous peoples within the country. This oversees three new climate change mechanisms covering: Joint mitigation and adaptation (MCMA Non-forest mitigation (for example in energy and …
Insight, 25 November 2014
Community-led mapping in the informal settlement of Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya, helps to record and reflect local people's needs and priorities (Photo: Sohel Ahmed)
Q&A: Why do we need a philosophy for better evidence?
… that. The key is that evidence is used, that it influences positive change. That's what IIED's research evidence is all about, supporting … can be manipulative or extractive; when a consultant goes into a community to collect data for example, and treats people as passive … context? SD: Absolutely. We don't know what is going to happen with climate change: how fast it will happen or what the impacts will be. So …
Article, 14 March 2017
The field team designing a REDD strategy talk to farmer Nimale Maribu Saidi as part of their field research in Meceburi Forest Reserve, Mozambique .Photo by Mike Goldwater
Inclusive environmental investments
… commitments at an international level for mitigating and adapting to climate change . One of the best-known climate change mitigation mechanisms … on payments for environmental services and previous work on company-community partnerships. In looking at how to make REDD+ processes more …
Project, 07 September 2013
Major deposit in biodiversity bank to protect future of food
… diversity on which global agriculture depends, from threats such as climate change. An association of Peruvian indigenous communities is sending its … by global climate change. “National authorities and the international community should support the Potato Park as it has a concrete impact on …
News, 22 February 2011
The earthquake that hit Nepal and areas of Bangladesh, India and Tibet on has had devastating consequences, with loss of life and destruction (Photo: Udayan Mishra, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED responds to Nepal earthquake
…   IIED works with civil society and government partners in Nepal on climate change, natural resource governance and urban development. A number of … are with us at the 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9)  in Nairobi. Last year's conference (CBA8) was hosted …
News, 27 April 2015
The earthquake that hit Nepal and areas of Bangladesh, India and Tibet on has had devastating consequences, with loss of life and destruction (Photo: Udayan Mishra, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED issues statement after devastating Nepal earthquake
…   IIED works with civil society and government partners in Nepal on climate change, natural resource governance and urban development. A number of … are with us at the 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9)  in Nairobi. Last year's conference (CBA8) was hosted …
News, 26 April 2015