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A brief history of biodiversity at IIED
… biodiversity work ranges from agricultural biodiversity to apes, from climate change to conservation, and from market mechanisms to mainstreaming. It … sharing, social assessment of protected areas, and ecosystem-based adaptation. Read our biodiversity related blogs, news and articles , or …
Article, 16 August 2013
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
… had been broken down.  In the 1987 IIED annual report, it says "change is in the air… with the Brundtland Report Our Common Future … the drylands. We wanted to show many of the positive stories around local action and land rights in these extensive dryland regions.  I had … for four years, collecting household data on livelihoods, assets, climate, land use, water and livestock. This research became my PhD …
Insight, 22 June 2015
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Assessing the CBA community of practice
… example to learn from is IIED’s conference series on community-based adaptation. The meetings have nurtured networks of practitioners that … such a community achieves better policies and practice to support local climate adaptation. … Climate change …
Publication, 01 April 2013
UN food treaty on plant genetic resources must protect farmers’ rights
… rights in various ways, such as: • Protecting rights over traditional knowledge to ensure benefit-sharing from commercial use • Ensuring … in developing countries are getting no incentive to conserve their local agricultural biodiversity, while commercial interests are being … and so limiting the options farmers have to adapt to a changing climate, which has implications for global food security." The FAO …
News, 14 March 2011
United Nations decision prompts potato celebration in Peru
… because intellectual property rights, neoliberal development models, climate change and genetically modified crops all pose threats to the culture, … and return them to the communities who can use them to support local adaptation systems," said Alejandro Argumedo, director of Asociacion …
News, 31 October 2007
Informal settlements in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta. The World Bank estimates that some 29 million Indonesians live in urban areas with poor access to basic services (Photo: Axel Drainville, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Urban risks: where are the top five biggest blind spots?
… needed upgrading programmes and effective disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Little local health data We get some sense of the scale of …
Insight, 18 April 2017
Group of people sitting on the floor, discussing research in Kibera
Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda – Lessons on Understanding Risk and Building Resilience
… from the river banks are also subject to localised flooding. Global climate change is already aggravating the flood risk residents face across the … undermining their resilience. Effective action for climate change adaptation needs to be specific to the social, economic, and physical …
Insight, 20 October 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
Crowdsourcing evidence – such as from these food vendors in Fort Portal, Uganda – is vital to foster citizens agency. But you must engage and listen (Photo: Sven Torfinn/Panos Pictures)
Encouraging dialogue and dissent
… a confidence, a collective responsibility, an energy that can make change happen and we need that. We need to do things differently and we … together.   With the complex challenges we face going forward – climate change, fragile states, migrations – adaptation and innovation from the bottom up will be an essential part …
Insight, 15 March 2016
Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal. Photo: Sajal Sthapit
Forest businesses 'fit for life'
… income generation, gender equity, food security, energy security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation and soil conservation without …
Insight, 18 February 2013