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Urban societies can adapt to resource shortage and climate change
News, 26 May 2011
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Climate vulnerability and adaptation in the Semarang Metropolitan Area: a spatial and demographic analysis
… the relationship between population dynamics and vulnerability to climate change is critical for developing more targeted and effective adaptation policies and actions. The effects of an increased frequency … Climate vulnerability and adaptation in the Semarang Metropolitan Area: a spatial and demographic …
Publication, 01 October 2013
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Planning adaptation for food and farming: lessons from 40 years’ research
… This first-hand experience is invaluable for those working on climate change adaptation policies, but how do we access it? IIED has 40 years’ … Climate change … Planning adaptation for food and farming: lessons from 40 years’ research …
Publication, 01 May 2012
People walk along a river bank, with cattle in the water in front and fields behind
Why we need to plug the climate information gap in social protection schemes
Insight, 15 July 2020
We have in the past few years made progress on the theories and understanding of social learning approaches. But more research and real-life case studies are needed (Photo: Z Sewunet (ILRI)
Paving the way for social learning in the climate change context
Insight, 24 March 2014
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It’s raining, it’s pouring: Urban children and climate change vulnerability in secondary cities in Asia
… more people will be exposed to direct and indirect hazards of climate change, especially children in urban poor communities of the global … the development trajectory of children in urban communities. Adaptation remains critical for cities in poorer nations despite the … It’s raining, it’s pouring: Urban children and climate change vulnerability in secondary cities in Asia …
Publication, 01 June 2015
Community-Based Adaptation in Africa (CBAA)
… Between 2008 and 2011, the action research project Community­ Based Adaptation in Africa (CBAA) tested tools for climate adaptation and knowledge generation in eight African countries. … the NGOs in turn supported community-level activities around climate change adaptation. The coordinating partners in each country were …
Project, 08 September 2010
Local sheep varieties in the Potato Park, Peru, where an agreement was recently forged to share indigenous crop varieties and knowledge about how to grow them in different climates and landscapes (Photo: IIED)
Indigenous farmers from Peru, China and Bhutan agree to share seeds for climate adaptation
News, 08 May 2014
Prema Gopalan stands centre stage in an orange sari. Two men present her with a certificate; two others stand behind and applaud.
Prema Gopalan remembered
… a two-way pathway between disaster and development informed by a climate lens, seeing the way that climate change impacts women in particular.  Prema was a co-founder of SPARC and … Prema; we were gathering a range of actors to discuss what effective adaptation could look like from different perspectives. Prema spoke so …
News, 23 May 2022
Young man pushing a cart with branches.
Q&A: What does the youth inclusion theme at CBA14 have in store?
Article, 25 August 2020