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Evelyne Flora Latabu shaking a bowl of grains.
The Ugandan diet: food voices and choices
… their crops from pests, diseases and increasingly unpredictable climate hazards such as droughts and heavy rains. They show fluctuations … into a photo gallery. Testimonies on the Ugandan diet Josephine Atek is a 65-year-old vendor and farmer from the Bardege Division in Gulu … and knowledge and training on how to improve farming, could make a change for the better. Emericana Lamwaka is a 47-year-old farmer from …
Insight, 24 October 2019
A new radish variety shown off by Dayanand Joshi
As climate changes, Himalayan farmers return to traditional crops
Insight, 29 October 2018
Solar-radiation management aims to reduce the amount of solar energy warming the planet by blocking the sun with tiny particles (Photo: Mike, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Geoengineering and development – what price on equity and justice in the coming climate culture wars?
Insight, 20 December 2017
CBA5 participants visited Char Kukri-Mukri island on the southeast coast. Here women tend mangrove seedlings destined to provide a barrier against erosion (Photo: B. Koelle)
5th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA5)
… participate in field visits to learn how communities are adapting to climate change. In her opening address, Sheikh Hasina referred to the field … been affected and are facing the challenges of climate change. "It is a world of mutual learning. While you as scientists must learn from … Climate change …
Article, 13 April 2011
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Preparing parliament for the climate challenge in Ghana
… Ghana has already begun to feel the impacts of climate change and needs strategies, tools and tactics to better respond to … need more support to understand key issues and translate them from local to national to global levels and vice versa. But if MPs matter, so … Climate change … Preparing parliament for the climate challenge in Ghana …
Publication, 01 July 2012
Stunted crops in the Kaffrine region of Senegal are the result of a lack of rainfall, jeopardising farmers’ harvests (Photo: Daniella Van Leggelo-Padilla/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Local climate adaptation: bridging the funding gap
Insight, 09 July 2015
Around a billion urban dwellers live in informal settlements such as these. Without far more effective policies, their population could rise to 2 billion by 2030 (Photo: Mark Edwards)
Ten essentials for the New Urban Agenda in one page
… latest draft of the New Urban Agenda  – to be agreed at the summit – is long, impenetrable and gives little attention to urban governance. … commitments already made in the SDGs and in the Paris Agreement on climate change   We recognise how much can be achieved through strong local …
Insight, 19 July 2016
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Addressing poverty and inequality – new forms of urban governance in Asia
… how it uses finance to support community action and engagement with local governments. Also, how it supports collective processes within … on very low incomes. In this issue, there are also five papers are on climate change and cities: lessons from practice in Asia for building climate …
Publication, 01 October 2012
A cartoon showing an adult holding a sign and a group of children saying: "We already know how to hold a sign. Show us how to redirect funding to sustainable resource management technologies".
CBA14 preview event uses climate cartoons to trigger discussions
Article, 05 August 2020
Delegates at the 20th Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) meeting integrate poverty and environmental issues into the global agenda in Edinburgh in late May (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Putting ourselves out of business – forward planning for the PEP
… hosted by IIED, and focused on ' Implementing the SDGs for inclusive, climate-resilient, green economies '. But he told the meeting, there's a … poverty reduction, environmental resource management and climate change.  That relationship and the need for an integrated approach have … dealt with in one silo, while action to improve climate resilience is dealt with elsewhere. This means building bridges, but it also …
Insight, 29 June 2015