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Planning and costing agricultural adaptation to climate change in the small-scale maize production system of Malawi
… Malawi has recently experienced an increased incidence of climate change-related hazards. Agriculture is one of the most vulnerable … Lower Shire Valley of Malawi and how much it will cost at household, community and national level to continue to carry out such activities. … Planning and costing agricultural adaptation to climate change in the small-scale maize production system of Malawi …
Publication, 01 September 2011
Young man pushing a cart with branches.
Q&A: What does the youth inclusion theme at CBA14 have in store?
… group that seeks to mobilise young people to drive environmental change and community development.  He is leading the youth track at next month’s … youth – of different ages, races, places – involved in locally-led climate adaptation. A youth-led initiative to restore fragmented … Climate change …
Article, 25 August 2020
View of Kunming, China, of a lake and houses in the background
Learning from Paris: what would ‘Kunming-compliant’ look like for development cooperation agencies?
Insight, 25 February 2021
Press photographers recording the opening plenary (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP19)
… of the Parties (COP19) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) opened in Warsaw on 11 November 2013. The two-week … on loss and damage. Sunday's programme focused on innovative game-based approaches for inciting action for climate change education, … Climate change … IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP19) …
Event, 01 January 2015
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 … of the government of Maharashtra, by producing a unique women-driven, community-led assessment and retrofitting 900 villages in these …
News, 23 May 2022
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Farmers become filmmakers: climate change adaptation in Malawi (PLA 60)
… project investigated the effectiveness of video for transferring community-based climate change adaptation practices between vulnerable villages. In … Farmers become filmmakers: climate change adaptation in Malawi (PLA 60) …
Publication, 01 December 2009
COP17 in Durban: Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Christiana Figueres and the President of COP17, South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (Photo: Michael Mazengarb, Creative Commons via Flickr)
United Nations climate change negotiations: IIED at COP17
… of the Parties  (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)  took place in Durban from November 28 to December 11, … the effectiveness of climate adaptation Improving information for community-based adaptation Rethinking climate change as a security … Climate change … United Nations climate change negotiations: IIED at COP17 …
Event, 20 December 2011
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Building climate resilience through commercial agroforestry tree nurseries
… This climate resilience case study (No.4) from Kenya is the fourth of ten … provide advisory services on cultivation to local farmers. Climate change is perceived as a major threat, with rainfall irregularities, … workers. LETNSHG has both helped its members and, through them, local community-based adaptation (CbA) to these changes. Nursery owners have …
Publication, 01 October 2020
The experiences of mountain communities in Kyrgyzstan were shared at a learning exchange (Photo: Alan Zulch)
Mountain communities stress the importance of biocultural heritage for global food security
… of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP) flags the growing impacts of climate change on mountain communities and the vital importance of indigenous … and nomadic pastoralists in the Suusamyr Valley.  During the event community and non-governmental organisation representatives, scientists …
News, 15 February 2019
Forests, resilience and climate change
… Significant global climate change is inevitable. Forest ecosystems may not be able to adapt to the … and future links between climate change, forest resilience and forest-based livelihoods, and Develop and implement action plans for … Climate change … Forests, resilience and climate change …
Project, 11 June 2008