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Taking the long view on adaptation
Insight, 12 December 2011
Aurelio Fuastino lives near a primary forest in Mozambique. He sees the forest as an important source of many products including medicinal plants. He and other villages have no control over loggers who have been given licenses in the forest (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
IIED seminar on locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples
… from IIED's role in the  Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) . IIED is a partner in FFF, a global programme that supports the work of … year IIED has hosted events discussing ' Gender and environmental change',  ' Pollution, politics and social media in China ', and the links between climate change and food security . Other events have focused on the …
Event, 07 July 2015
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Securing land for housing and urban development
… the struggle by low-income groups to get housing and basic services is often a struggle to get land on which to build or to get tenure of … finance that they can draw on as and when needed. The journal’s Climate Change section includes papers on migration, the implications of …
Publication, 01 October 2009
Street scene, Karachi, Pakistan. Photo by Fareena Chanda
Can we change the goals of development without changing the implementers?
… (SDGs) and targets for the post 2015 development agenda. The draft is radical in what it commits governments and international agencies to achieve. But it seems to think that radical change can be achieved without changing existing institutional and … I also have a concern, but also that (rural and urban) poverty and climate change adaptation and mitigation get the attention they need. It …
Insight, 09 July 2014
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Climate change and health in Zambia
… and adaptation of the healthsector in Zambia to the impacts of climate variability and change. It constitutes the first step, which is to conduct a baseline analysis of the actual and potential adverse … Climate change … Climate change and health in Zambia …
Publication, 01 January 2008
IIED mourns the death of much-loved colleague Ivan Bond
… colleague, immersing himself amongst those working on forest and climate issues at a frantic time. He leaves many, many friends. We know … learning project Water ecosystem services and poverty under climate change: key issues and research priorities Incentives to sustain forest … Cambodia Payments for watershed services: opportunities and realities Local action, global aspirations CAMPFIRE and payments for environmental …
News, 04 March 2010
Cover for G02818.pdf
Participatory three-dimensional mapping for disaster risk reduction (PLA 60)
… Practitioners often merge CBDRR with community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA) as the ability of people to face climate changes shares … CBDRR. Participatory Learning and Action (PLA, formerly PLA Notes) is the world's leading series on participatory learning and action …
Publication, 01 December 2009
Annual report 2007/08
… human face of sustainable development. Featured project highlights Climate change Making adaptation planning fully democratic:  thanks to an … challenges on the high seas:  most of the world’s ocean area is outside national jurisdiction, threatened by human activity and …
Page, 23 December 2008
Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change and is at the forefront of adaptation efforts. This homestead has been designed to offer flood protection (Photo: CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Sharing knowledge to climb the adaptation ladder
Insight, 03 July 2015
People putting up solar panels
Inclusive finance for universal energy access
… are tailored for off-grid projects and meet communities’ needs.  What is IIED doing? IIED has investigated many aspects of the energy finance … into detailed number-crunching. Our analysis of international, public climate finance for the first time put concrete numbers on the large … 2019 . This issue was discussed in the second episode of IIED's Make Change Happen podcast in November 2019.  There is also the significant …
Article, 13 November 2019