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Many residents of Dar es Salaam live in informal settlements and are vulnerable to a wide range of climate threats, including sea-level rise and coastal erosion and flooding (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
4th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA4)
Article, 02 February 2010
This week in Myanmar, pictured, the Forest Farm Facility is funding a national exchange between forest and farm producer groups and many other producer groups (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter
… sitting in an air conditioned limousine or capital city workshop is easier than slogging through muddy roads to reach rural villages. … focus on just one aim, such as agricultural land use, or mitigating climate change, or producing timber or water etc, but in achieving all these …
Insight, 24 March 2014
Two forest farmers from Ghana, including the head of a local community forest group, alongside some cocoa beans (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Integrating forests into the post-2015 development framework
… led to a high level of uncertainty about how natural resource and climate change issues would be incorporated into the post-2015 development …
Project, 21 May 2014
Women farmers sorting their carrot harvest in Karnal District in the Indian state of Haryana (Photo: Nirmal Sigtia, IWMI/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Women in rural India are nature’s guardians
… Reetu Sogani is a development practitioner and researcher who has worked at the … ensures food and nutrition security in the face of factors such as climate change. She advocates mainstreaming the perspectives and knowledge of …
Article, 30 October 2018
A giraffe takes stock at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy, where Social Assessment of Protective Area fieldwork starts next week (Photo: www.kicheche.com via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Time for a new look at social impacts of protected areas
… to social equity in protected area conservation has grown, but it is not easy to tell what's good from bad. For these reasons, IIED and … us with important gifts by, among other things, regulating local climate and river flows, protecting species that pollinate our crops, … With equity on the agenda, and ambition in the air, we ought to see change on the ground. But since the Durban World Parks Congress, despite …
Insight, 11 March 2014
Young people in Okola, Cameroon, cluster around a Global Positioning System that they are using to create a community map with geographical features.
Future world: addressing the contradictions of planet, people, power and profits
… areas we focus on in the next strategic period. IIED believes that change is more likely to happen when policies are informed by evidence-based … and politicians, and the persistence of a pro-market ideology. Climate change. All nations now recognise the need to adapt to climate …
Insight, 07 June 2013
Deforestation in Kalimantan, Indonesia, which has been pledged US$1 billion pledge of REDD+ finance from Norway (Photo: Josh Estey/Aus Aid, via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
What's next for REDD+?
… Drivers, landscapes and other sectors Most people think REDD+ is about forests. That's just wrong. Forestry-related drivers of … The solution for the current emissions from land use and land use change will not come from the forest sector alone. Underlying the … these countries could provide. Delegates suggested that the UN climate change talks needs to move faster to reach agreement on a …
Insight, 29 April 2014
The Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation secures houses, sanitation and land rights for members. Communication and participation are central to the way it works (Photo: Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Creative Commons via Flickr)
Do you have the power to influence your own life?
… by family, friends, peers, colleagues? Do you live in a society that is democratic or a work environment where policies and practice are … an impact. When it comes to solving the world's complex problems – climate change adaptation, poverty eradication – we need everyone to be …
Insight, 06 March 2015
Man looks at two chimpanzees on a forest path
Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
… George Owoyesigire (GO) is director of the community conservation sub-directorate of the Uganda … of other emerging key issues and threats to conservation such as climate change. Q: What are some of the policy’s key elements? GO:  It’s an …
Article, 21 July 2020
A man and woman standing in a field
Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms
… Burkina Faso is in the Sahel region of West Africa. It has a fast growing population … Bolontou This outlook is not unusual, particularly in a context of climate uncertainty and change, and has led to rapid population growth in towns and cities in …
Article, 26 April 2020