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Divisional Adaptation Planning Committees (DAPCs) act as community focal points (Photo: Sam Greene/IIED)
Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation
… strategies, uniquely suited to their environment, to manage climate variability and uncertainty. Over time, they have developed … to common resources as men. This seriously affects their income and food security in times of crisis or shortage. They are rarely involved in planning and decision … Climate change …
Project, 26 November 2015
‘Act on nature’, demand hundreds of organisations, in unprecedented call to world leaders
… children and youth; while at the same time essential to tackling the climate crisis. Sustainable use of natural resources means building resilient … needed to tackle the drivers of biodiversity loss, most notably our food system, and secure a sustainable future for people and the planet. …
News, 18 September 2020
People sit on chairs two metres apart while listening to a man at a lectern
COVID-19: IIED in the media
… The COVID-19 pandemic is an extreme event; the current global health crisis will have significant and long-lasting repercussions for … a new IIED report shows they have an opportunity to tackle debt, climate and biodiversity loss together. Large-scale debt swaps would … are quoted saying: “Wet markets are considered part of the informal food trade that is often blamed for contributing to spreading disease. …
Article, 14 April 2020
Cover for 10040IIED.pdf
Global public policy narratives on the drylands and pastoralism
… narratives that have dominated agricultural policy are built on crisis scenarios around meeting projected food demand, now complicated by global climate change and food price spikes. The role given to drylands and …
Publication, 01 April 2013
Two women sewing face masks
Business with purpose in the era of COVID-19
… Especially those employed at the end of global value chains producing food and clothing in countries such as Bangladesh and Kenya. They are … ‘purpose’ wash. The case has also been made that recovering from the crisis will require business to focus entirely on rebuilding profits and … society organisations signed an open letter urging a transition to a climate-neutral economy, protecting biodiversity and transforming …
Insight, 18 May 2020
Publications covers collage
IIED's best of 2019: publications
… for everything from clean air and water to medicines and secure food supplies. Yet human activities are destroying biodiversity around … faster than natural ‘background’ rates. This global biodiversity crisis is hitting the poorest communities first and hardest, because … goods and services (and are already bearing the brunt of climate change). So why does the development community often ignore …
Article, 23 December 2019
Man talking while two others take notes
IIED research and evidence in academia
… in the context of increasing challenges of global inequality, climate change and biodiversity loss. Publishing research in such … future. Written by IIED's Lorenzo Cotula . 2022 Indigenous Peoples' food systems and biocultural heritage: addressing Indigenous priorities … IIED's Lorenzo Cotula . Towards a political economy of the COVID-19 crisis: reflections on an agenda for research and action (2021), World …
Article, 23 September 2020
A fruit bat
Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an environmental issue
… against the goals will be assessed; the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will assess whether the commitments for 2020 … air and fresh water to medicines (modern and traditional) and secure food supplies in the face of a changing climate.  An impending development crisis Yet human activities are destroying biodiversity at least 1,000 …
Insight, 29 April 2019
Farmers looking at plants
Nature 4 Development – introducing IIED’s new 2020 initiative
… Africa and Send A Cow) have an interest in sustainable, equitable food systems and a range of interventions or policy work on … in response to scientists and policymakers failing to recognise climate change as a development issue, and that it was an issue hitting … louder than ever, evidence grows that biodiversity loss presents a crisis for both environment and development. Through this initiative …
Insight, 29 January 2020
Hundreds of densely packed houses climb into the mountains
Dealing with COVID-19 in the towns and cities of the global South
… workers and guards. Some of these households will be able to secure food from their extended family networks in rural areas but many will … places severe strain on households. There is a looming economic crisis The scale of economic recession will have impacts on the global … Further reading on IIED's work and the coronovirus Coronavirus and climate change are two crises that need humanity to unite , blog by …
Insight, 27 March 2020