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IIED's best of 2018: publications
… 3 Citizen-generated evidence for a more sustainable and healthy food system Research report Evidence generation by and with low-income … forest and farm producer organisation (FFPO) businesses that ensure climate resilient landscapes Research report Forest business incubation … 2010. About two million people have fled into urban areas around crisis zones. However, barely 10 per cent of these internally displaced …
Article, 21 December 2018
Algeria unveils its renewable energy strategy; Africa has a "huge appetite for renewable sources of energy that will power its industries" (Photo: Magharebia, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
But, what is the Africa position?
… in natural resources, they are left rudely exposed to the vagaries of climate change? I recall sitting up in my chair and trying to make sense … new opportunities for Africa to address energy poverty and growing crisis has been widely rehearsed. Or should we rather focus our … denying them of reserves and surpluses.   Moving from a dysfunctional food system marked with severe structural deficiencies to a performing …
Insight, 28 November 2015
Care workers in Guinea put on protective clothing (Photo: EC/ECHO)
Ebola – what must we learn?
… and government to meet both regular and unexpected demands. The Ebola crisis demonstrates yet again the acute difference in capacity globally … cent or more. Recent estimates show significant economic losses, to food production and exports, as well as investment put on hold. The … continent as a whole. It makes you ask what therefore might a big climate shock do? Building resilience to shock needs to happen at both a …
Insight, 30 October 2014
PLA 60: Community-based adaptation to climate change
… Saleemul Huq and Angela Milligan Community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change brings together those working in the fields of disaster … Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET) Provides information on food security (including weekly climate and precipitation forecasts) for … to inform policy and practice on responses to the food and climate crisis. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) The IPCC …
Article, 01 December 2009
A group of young women protestors with placards, one reading "Your profits can't buy another planet"
Ten reasons why we have to rewrite the sustainability rule book, and now
… But the scale, geographical and demographic extent of the global climate strikes has been huge. Employee movements within companies have … flag. The words #JustTransition pop up on the edge of the climate crisis discussion; they must now become central to the conversation. 6 … companies are already offering great – and much more sustainable – food, fashion and finance. And while some are hitting US$1billion …
Insight, 08 December 2019
Women sitting next to vegetables wear masks and keep social distancing.
What lessons can we learn from COVID-19 responses in African cities?
… Institute (GDI) have been analysing responses to the COVID-19 crisis across a number of African cities. At African Cities Research … local philanthropy, to formal cash transfers. In Kampala, voluntary food distribution and sharing of vehicles (helping to transport patients … has emerged as a key priority to address multiple risks (including climate change, pandemics, and profound urban exclusions). Pandemic …
Insight, 04 July 2022
Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines on 7 November 2013. Credit: NASA
Typhoon Haiyan shows why COP19 must deliver on loss and damage
… I started drafting this blog on loss and damage from climate change last week before the beginning of COP19, the 19th … in total. The death toll will rise as survivors desperately seek food, water and shelter, and as aid agencies struggle to reach them. … of this extreme climate event is madness,” he said. “The climate crisis is madness.” [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yITq61XedI] …
Insight, 13 November 2013
Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
IIED's best of 2015: blogs
… not just China, but also the global environment. Changes in Chinese food production and consumption concern us all. IIED senior researcher … than it is indeed time to change the way we think about food. Will climate change render the SDGs impossible? June: The 5th Assessment …  Cities are increasingly where humanitarian action must respond to crisis. As the world urbanises, so too must the humanitarian sector. Can …
Article, 22 December 2015
Syria refugees in Lebanon learn how to make fishing nets, a skill which will help them find work along the northern coast (Photo: DFID, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Why urbanisation matters in responding to humanitarian crises
… and cities, and not in formal camps – meaning that this humanitarian crisis is increasingly an urban crisis as well. The proportion of Syrian … and working with them. Previous 'supply-based' systems of providing food, water and shelter don't work in cities that are characterised by … head of IIED's Human Settlements Group and team leader for cities and climate change.  Note: this blog was informed by discussions at a …
Insight, 15 September 2015
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
… 13th international conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA13)  in Addis Ababa to discuss how adaptation can … with those at the frontlines of climate change will we tackle the crisis. It is only by working globally and locally, together, will we … to adapt to climate change. We work with women to help them achieve food security, to lift themselves out of poverty, and support their …
Article, 04 April 2019