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A farmer in Tanzania shows the effects of drought on her maize crop. Farmers in developing countries, and women farmers in particular, find it difficult to get multi-peril crop insurance (Photo: Anne Wangalachi, CIMMYT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Insuring farmers – adapting to climate change
Insight, 16 July 2015
Vanuatu is one of the Least Developed Countries, and is increasingly affected by climate change. Here local people are constructing a river crossing using rocks and coral after flooding destroyed a bridge (Photo: 350.org, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Financing climate change adaptation in LDCs
Insight, 22 April 2015
Women fishing in shallow water
CBA15: Local solutions inspiring global action
Event, 14 June 2021
A motorbike rides through a flooded road. A woman tries to cross the road from the left hand side pavement.
IPCC report signposts pathways to climate-resilient future for cities
Insight, 09 March 2022
Health: an issue that needs to be prioritised in climate change adaptation
… more resilient than those who are unhealthy. The issues of scaling up community-based adaptation in health were discussed in the 20th parallel session of the … Health: an issue that needs to be prioritised in climate change adaptation …
Insight, 01 April 2011
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
… don’t want to miss.  1 Investing in nature for development: do nature-based interventions deliver local development outcomes?  Project report … published alongside the issue paper .   3 Principles for locally-led adaptation Issue paper Recovery from COVID-19 provides a historic … Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), the international community and the LDC Group might support LDCs to effectively engage in …
Article, 17 December 2021
sandbags holding back river water
CBA14: Same great conference, entirely new environment
Insight, 07 July 2020
A woman in an orange life jacket sits on the edge of a square pond cage, surrounded by water.
How social protection can support people and sustain fisheries
… and rarely meet the needs of all fisheries actors . For instance, programme eligibility is often linked to asset registration and tax or … between NGOs, private companies, fisheries sector organisations and community-based organisations. These last two often play a role in the informal …
Insight, 06 June 2022
Woman waters seedlings
Delivering high-quality, predictable and accessible climate finance for least developed countries
… largely as loans  rather than grants, prioritises mitigation over adaptation, and that procedures for accessing funds are complex, lengthy … funders, Malawi elected to explore whether using a financing facility based on a project implementation unit (PIU) – would meet both current … finance goal is high on the COP26 agenda. Now, the international community must reflect on how to make this finance high-quality, …
Insight, 03 November 2021
Cover for G02014.pdf
Overview: Community-based animal health workers, policies, and institutions (PLA 45)
… This article provides some background information on community-based animal health workers (CAHW) in livestock development programmes. … the quality of the animal healthcare available.This issue discusses community participation, policy, and institutional change. It highlights … Overview: Community-based animal health workers, policies, and institutions (PLA …
Publication, 01 October 2002