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Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)
Project, 27 July 2018
An irrigation canal
South Africa’s national development monitoring and evaluation
Article, 30 October 2019
Europe’s food security at risk without bigger role for farmers in policy and research
… Europe's food security in a changing climate will depend on farmers being central participants in … basis of food supplies and agriculture’s ability to adapt to climate change is disappearing because the dominant policies favour large … for farmers to participate in plant breeding. "Europe's agriculture policy is bad for biodiversity and forces farmers to use an increasingly …
News, 11 May 2011
Woman holding a shovel to the ground in a cropped field.
IIED's best of 2021: blogs
… by [COVID-19] restrictions on movement. 3 Locally-led adaption to climate change: the start of a 10-year learning journey January : In early 2021, … and the journey ahead . This 10-year journey to promote locally led adaptation will use three annual events to keep partners – both …
Article, 23 December 2021
Cover for G02658.pdf
Understanding the impacts of climate change: Linking satellite and other spatial data with population data
… Chapter 13 of "Population dynamics and climate change". This book broadens and deepens understanding of a wide range of … of global greenhouse gas emissions, for developing and implementing adaptation plans and thus for global and national efforts to curtail … Understanding the impacts of climate change: Linking satellite and other spatial data with population …
Publication, 01 January 2009
Beyond buzzwords: making adaptation a development norm
… Day 1 of IIED’s Development and Climate Days: Land, Water and Forests For Nobel prizewinner and Kenyan … African poverty. Three very different visions of climate adaptation, three high-flying pragmatists with a focus on the … world’s most impoverished nations are also most vulnerable to climate change. And, despite the triple whammy of poverty, lack of capacity and …
Insight, 12 December 2009
Nazhat Shameem Khan, Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and chief COP23 negotiator, addresses the LDC Group and chair Gebru Jember Endalew. IIED principal researcher Achala Abeysinghe, who provides legal support to the LDC Group chair, is pictured right (Photo: Collin Beck)
LDCs approach Fiji COP with high expectations
Insight, 01 November 2017
A water tap in Rwanda. Measuring sustainability of investments in water and sanitation makes more sense than focusing on annual freshwater withdrawal and access to improved water and sanitation (Photo: A'Melody Lee/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Making World Bank aid sustainable
Insight, 10 October 2016
Cover for G04113.pdf
FEBA Discussion Paper. Shared goals – joined-up approaches? Why action under the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 needs to come together at the landscape level
Publication, 01 December 2016
Sheep grazing dry season pastures in Mopti, Mali (Photo: Near East Foundation)
Decentralising Climate Funds in Mali and Senegal
Project, 19 March 2015