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Heat stress and adaptive capacity of low-income outdoor workers and their families in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam
… tend to be among the poorest, with limited access to public services, local social support programmes or healthcare provision. Their knowledge of adaptive and coping mechanisms to deal with heat stress is … development among the outdoor working population to build their knowledge and awareness of, and resilience against, heat stress. …
Publication, 01 October 2013
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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 … other areas,” says IIED’s Paul Steele . 5 What is effective climate adaptation? Case studies from the least developed countries I ssue paper …
Article, 23 December 2020
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Community maps reveal rich resources of land policymakers think is empty
… to an "A-Z of London". Ced Hesse, principal researcher in IIED’s climate change group, presented the project at the 7th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change this week in Bangladesh. He explained that … Climate change …
Insight, 25 April 2013
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Stakeholder-focused cost-benefit analysis in the water sector: synthesis report
… Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective …
Publication, 01 January 2013
Three people stand talking in a street. A man, a woman and, in the middle, a young man wearing a face mask.
A just recovery from COVID-19: young people from eight African cities speak out
… of basic services; and supporting holistic interventions, such as climate-change adaptive social protection. A call for inclusion Marginalised by … decision making about COVID-19 responses. Practicing participation in local governance Second, young people requested enabling environments …
Insight, 24 May 2022
Images of indigenous biocultural heritage territories are profiled in a new photofilm (Photo: IIED)
New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories
… repositories of genetic resources for food and agriculture and climate adaptation.  The film opens with the vision for biocultural heritage … as a strategy to enhance food security in the face of climate change. Today's unprecedented erosion of genetic and cultural diversity … Climate change …
News, 11 November 2014
The Stone Village Seed Park lies in the Himalayan foothills of Yunnan, Southwest China. It is the homeland of the ethnic minority Naxi people. 
Biocultural heritage territories film now in Spanish
… as a valuable strategy to enhance food security in the face of climate change. The film opens with a profile of Peru's Potato Park, which is … types of potato, an important resource for food security and climate adaptation. The second territory is the Naxi Seed Park, or Stone … Climate change …
News, 30 August 2016
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Smallholder Innovation for Resilience (SIFOR) - Qualitative Baseline Study, Central & Eastern Himalayas, India
… and the Eastern Himalayas. The project aims to strengthen traditional knowledge-based innovation systems, identify innovations developed by smallholder farmers to confront challenges related to climate changes, and understand the factors or conditions that support … effort between all four SIFOR partners and then adapted to each local context, to provide a common scientific framework. Follow the …
Publication, 01 October 2014
Moveable feast: the floating gardens of Bangladesh
… How some of the world’s poorest farmers are coping with climate change The farmers of southern Bangladesh have seen it all: cyclones, … adversity. So IIED, with CLACC 1 — its network of experts working on adaptation in the poorest countries — is exploring community-based … Climate change …
Article, 03 October 2008
While one of the objectives of the 2014 World Day to Combat Desertification is to strengthen the visibility of the drylands on the international environmental agenda, much more is needed (Photo: Marie Monimart)
Celebrating the drylands
… their livelihoods and sustain them when times are hard. Learning from local people and nature Natural scientists have uncovered some of the … [PDF] , often building on centuries of understanding of ecosystem and climate dynamics to create livelihoods based on a portfolio of diverse … to learn from people who have lived with extreme cycles of climate change for generations. From them, we can discover how to live with a …
Insight, 17 June 2014