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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
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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
Annual report 2009/10
… out the future to pay for the present. Featured project highlights Climate change Adaptation after Copenhagen:  in the Least Developed Countries, …
Page, 21 October 2010
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
Large dams can bring long-term benefits for displaced communities, says study
… to stay and more are being planned. Countries are choosing them as an adaptation to food insecurity, rising energy prices and climate change so it is essential that they build 'good dams', where the …
News, 05 November 2009
Louder this time, ‘Turn REDD on its head!’
… based on local, not central government, control . A year later at the climate conference in Durban, South Africa, many others are saying the … as a co-benefit — or perhaps Investing in Locally Controlled Climate Smart Forests in Land Use, if you really want a mouthful. Here … of other essential conditions that will not be achieved overnight are institutions with the incentive and ability to integrate with each …
Insight, 30 November 2011
Delegates at the international symposium on agroecology (Photo: John Choptiany/FAO)
Agroecology offers FAO a 'new window' on agriculture
… sustainability, and important ecosystem services such as climate change mitigation. It differs from conventional farming because its … by civil society organisations such as ActionAid , by academic institutions such as the UK's Coventry University and by international …
Insight, 02 October 2014
Drying medicinal plants, the knowledge of which is passed down through generations. In South Asia alone, there are more than 8,000 plant species with known medicinal value (Photo: Bioversity International/B. Sthapit)
Sustaining local food systems and agricultural biodiversity
… governance, co-management agreements, and markets and property right institutions able to sustain agricultural biodiversity and livelihoods … for tackling agricultural challenges, including those brought by climate change. After this initiative came to an end, IIED support continued …
Project, 15 August 2013
Farmers sort tomatoes in Ethiopia.
How small-scale farmers make markets work for them
… farmers should contribute to food security, cut poverty and adapt to climate change. Much of the advice sees small-scale farmers as entrepreneurs who … producers, and which oblige them to operate at the borders of state institutions and legal regulations. Spaces in policy making are opening …
Insight, 28 November 2012
Protect and survive: customary safeguards, traditional knowledge
… conditions ensures traditional practices are robust and adaptable to climate change. Such treasured knowledge needs protection from outside interests … medicines and other genetic resources, landscapes, cultures and institutions. Case study first printed in IIED's annual report , October …
Article, 09 November 2009