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Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity
… – innovation systems to strengthen food security in the face of climate change. The five-year project worked with indigenous and traditional … better adapted to local environments and provide crucial options for adaptation to future climatic and market changes. Preserving traditional …
Article, 18 October 2018
The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)
Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
… in 2016. Decisions taken at the 2015 Financing for Development and climate change conferences started to take effect. LDCs needed advice and … Development Research Centre in 2006 to lead on research on adaptation strategies. Prior to this she worked as a senior energy …
Article, 03 August 2015
Immaculate Yossa is regional advocacy officer for Eastern Africa at Hivos. She discussed key messages from multi-stakeholder action at the Uganda Food Lab (Photo: Food and Agriculture Organisation, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Achieving real transformation in our food system
… we consume. This undermines the ability of agriculture to adapt to climate change. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the agri-food 'value chain' … the process by using collective learning as the primary driver for adaptation.   Get the right people at the table:  Involving key actors …
Insight, 23 October 2018
Women selling spices in the street
Getting attention to a much-neglected health agenda: occupational health and safety
… to thriving: learning from responses to the health effects of climate change in informal workers and informal settlements of Zimbabwe'. It explores the intersection of climate-related, environmental and occupational health risks facing … Policy and planning …
Insight, 27 April 2021
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Small, but many, is big: a review of issues in assessing the collective scale of small and locally-controlled forest-linked investment
… full potential for local development outcomes, forest conservation, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and returns on investment. This paper reviews …
Publication, 01 March 2016
A group of people gather around a pile of potatoes with mountains as a backdrop
Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity
… systems preserve rich biodiversity, provide nutritious food and are climate resilient and low carbon. And they are already achieving zero … food systems because they are more resilient to climate change and provide more nutritious diets than modern food systems. And … industrial agriculture. Indigenous Peoples are largely left out of policy discussions and face widespread marginalisation and racial …
Insight, 23 October 2020
Global warming will push Asia into reverse says new report
… Chairman of the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - says that without immediate action, global warming is set to … disaster management; and the employment of effective regulatory and policy instruments. The challenge is clear and many of the solutions are … Climate change …
News, 19 November 2007
What would sustainability in the North mean for development in the South?
… if they are to assume their responsibilities for mitigating climate change. But what consequences would this have for the global South? Will climate change mitigation in the North undermine economic development in … Climate change …
Insight, 08 July 2010
Financiers, decision makers, practitioners and researchers from across the globe gathered to share lessons and their experience in channelling finance to local levels (Image: Matt Wright/IIED)
Money where it matters: how to deliver finance to the local level
… Realising the world's ambitions to combat climate change and promote sustainable development will cost 'billions to … to increase their credit worthiness. For Victor Orindi from the Adaptation Consortium in Kenya , the key is local planning committees. … Climate change … Policy and planning …
Insight, 15 December 2016
Indigenous people at the Himalayan workshop
Biocultural heritage landscape to be established in Eastern Himalayas
… the future, enhancing food security and securing crop diversity for climate change adaptation.  The area selected for the biocultural heritage landscape is …
News, 30 November 2017