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Prakash Mathema speaking at the opening ceremony of the 8th annual conference on community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA8) held in Kathmandu, Nepal in April 2014 (Photo: IIED)
Q&A: Helping the poorest nations with development goals
Article, 19 September 2014
Cover for 10140IIED.pdf
Financing inclusive low-carbon resilient development: The role of the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre in Nepal
Publication, 01 August 2015
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaking the World Economic Forum in 2017 (Photo: Jakob Polacsek/World Economic Forum, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: getting indigenous women's voices heard on the SDGs
… in. And in the context of the environment and people’s livelihoods, climate change is a major threat in Chad. One of the most striking effects are … that men and women sit separately. If we are holding a climate change adaptation workshop – for example examining how traditional knowledge … Climate change …
Article, 15 May 2018
A woman hands protective equipment to another woman.
Engaging pastoralist communities through citizen movements to amplify their voice
Article, 11 December 2020
Pastoralists are 'invisible assets' in fight against poverty and climate change
… that pastoralists bring to national economies and efforts to confront climate change, says the International Institute for Environment and Development … "Livestock serves pastoralists as a bank to invest in, an insurance policy, a currency to trade and a supermarket that supplies milk, meat … Pastoralists are 'invisible assets' in fight against poverty and climate change …
News, 18 June 2009
Tanzania: participatory training events for small-scale farmers can introduce the concept of climate change and help farmers identify which crops could work well in their area (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS)
From knowledge to action – how top down training is driving bottom-up resilience in Tanzania
Insight, 09 March 2015
Uganda food lab participants add their names to a declaration that came out of the lab discussions (Photo: Nimrod Bagonza)
Food Change Labs tackle complex issues with the whole system in the room
… for a healthy, productive food system?  Hivos and IIED have run Food Change Labs in three countries, and are starting on a fourth. Our Food … to depleted soils and a national food system that is vulnerable to climate change and crop diseases on the one hand, and malnutrition (due … Planning Authority announced a change in approach of the country’s policy planning. Being part of the Food Change Lab had made him realise …
Insight, 30 January 2019
The opening of the UN climate change talks in Bonn in June. The negotiators meet in Bonn again this week (Photo: UNClimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate negotiations: the last stop before Paris
Insight, 19 October 2015
Cover for 10049IIED.pdf
Low-carbon resilient development in the Least Developed Countries
… Low-carbon resilience has become the new buzzword in climate change policy; it is an agenda that tackles reducing carbon emissions … while simultaneously building climate resilience (climate change adaptation) and supporting development in a supposed win-win policy … Climate change …
Publication, 01 October 2013
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… the publication, entitled 'Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate-resilient drylands development' . A product of research from … the environment." Many dryland people know how to live with climate change and work with variable rainfall. They recognise variability as an … IIED, Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative (DLCI), the Adaptation Consortium and funded by the Ford Foundation . Notes to …
News, 27 April 2015