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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 14 SEACOW and Chisa Kruskaisa
Publication, 01 January 1998
Pakistan's Sarhad Rural Support programme deals with constant uncertainty and disruptive events. Here goods are delivered to flood victims in Chitral (Photo: Gul Hamaad Farooqui, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What can Southern NGOs teach us about disruptive change?
… donors and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to community-based groups in the global South, respond to these changes – as … the ecosystems of development – Mariteuw Chimère Diaw, Cameroon Adaptation is dancing to somebody else's music. Innovation is composing …
Insight, 26 January 2016
Afghan farmers and extension workers assess an okra field in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan (Photo: Barbara Adoph/IIED)
Introduction to building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems
Article, 05 August 2013
Vietnam's Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute is working on developing rice strains that are more tolerant to heat, increased salinity and longer periods under water (Photos: V. Meadu/CCAFS)
New publication studies climate finance at national level
News, 20 March 2015
Testing the water in Kenya's Tana River watershed. The river's ecosystem is being affected by a range of factors. Public and private organisations are exploring ways to improve ecosystem management (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
'Sustainable development science' for transforming our world
… for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) , an interdisciplinary research programme supported jointly by DFID, NERC and ESRC, have drawn on MA … is a senior associate at IIED and independent chair of the ESPA programme executive board. This blog was originally posted by ESPA.  …
Insight, 09 October 2015
Prakash Mathema speaking at the opening ceremony of the 8th annual conference on community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA8) held in Kathmandu, Nepal in April 2014 (Photo: IIED)
Q&A: Helping the poorest nations with development goals
Article, 19 September 2014
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
… design of resilient agri-food systems. Such systems are generally based on circular economy models that involve recycling, reuse and … people This project was a collaborative research and communications programme coordinated by IIED in Africa, China, the Andean region of … of marginalised women working with the programme created a community grain fund to distribute locally-grown, drought-tolerant …
Project, 14 August 2013
From decentralised finance to legal tools, this map showing real examples of innovative governance from around the world highlights seven tried-and-tested methods of empowering local institutions (Image: IIED)
Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development
Article, 24 November 2015
Press photographers recording the opening plenary (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP19)
… can be made more equitable and gender-sensitive. The workshop programme included reports on collaborative research in Africa, Asia and … in the middle weekend of COP19. On Saturday, delegates discussed adaptation practitioners’ experiences from the field. The day closed … on loss and damage. Sunday's programme focused on innovative game-based approaches for inciting action for climate change education, …
Event, 01 January 2015
Responding to climate change in the Caribbean
Insight, 05 July 2011