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Cover for G02790.pdf
2011 CBA flyer
Publication, 01 October 2010
A pastoralist dwelling in Niger. Rural communities have learned to exploit the variability of dryland environments (Photo: IIED)
The end of desertification?
… from the late 1960s to the 1990s were the most dramatic example of climate variability in the 20th century. Until recently one word – … The inability of desertification to explain social and environmental change in the Sahel is not an isolated case. The concept of … on a global scale. Existing global maps of desertification are often based on subjective assessments by experts. These maps cannot be …
Insight, 29 September 2016
Cover for G02769.pdf
CBA 2011 flyer
… Flyer for the 5th international Community based adaptation conference … Climate change …
Publication, 01 August 2010
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… Goals (SDGs)  and the breakthrough global legal treaty on combating climate change – the Paris Agreement  in 2015 have set the stage for a 'new … themes of the recent 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation  held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the theme of 'enhancing urban …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Syria refugees in Lebanon learn how to make fishing nets, a skill which will help them find work along the northern coast (Photo: DFID, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Why urbanisation matters in responding to humanitarian crises
… to more than 80,000 people is estimated to cost the international community more than USD $500,000 per day to run – there are also sound … head of IIED's Human Settlements Group and team leader for cities and climate change.  Note: this blog was informed by discussions at a workshop …
Insight, 15 September 2015
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… that drive biodiversity loss. Biocultural heritage territories A change in perspective is needed. In 2005, IIED and its partners … research with scientists have enhanced yields despite severe climate change impacts. And landscape-based biocultural products and … by the NGO Asociaciόn ANDES . This approach has built strong community ownership and self-sustainability. My PhD explores whether and …
Insight, 18 February 2020
The Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation secures houses, sanitation and land rights for members. Communication and participation are central to the way it works (Photo: Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Creative Commons via Flickr)
Do you have the power to influence your own life?
… an impact. When it comes to solving the world's complex problems – climate change adaptation, poverty eradication – we need everyone to be involved, …
Insight, 06 March 2015
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… stocks due to the effects of habitat destruction, over-fishing and climate change. The animation produced by our Sustainable Markets Group  was … by IIED senior fellow Saleemul Huq at the 8th Annual Community Based Adaptation Conference  in Nepal in April and at the UNFCCC climate talks …
Insight, 12 January 2015
Meceburi Forest, Mozambique: a young woman harvests casava (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?
… be boosted by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate agreement. SDGs for the trees Local forestry initiatives really … and in non-market mechanisms now known as 'joint mitigation and adaptation'. True, there are no actual binding targets for limiting …    Meanwhile, as Paul Mason points out in PostCapitalism , climate-change deniers are perhaps less worrying than the fantasists who believe …
Insight, 11 February 2016
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IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)
… researcher Krystyna Swiderska. Related reading: Ecosystem-based adaptation: a handbook for EbA in mountain, dryland and coastal … results from the Potato Park and the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment, Peru The Darwin Initiative – past, present and future …
Event, 17 November 2018