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Learning route participants interact with local communities in Isiolo, Kenya (Photo: Timothy Mwaura/CGIAR)
Seven ways to build resilient local economies in fragile contexts
… IIED has been working with a consortium of partners – led by Kenya's National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) , the … for their enforcement. Trust built between government and the community institutions then pays additional dividends, such as grazing … . This blog was originally posted on the G7 knowledge platform . The Adaptation Consortium is a partnership of six organisations, including …
Insight, 24 August 2016
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
News, 27 April 2015
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 – … the ecosystems of development – Mariteuw Chimère Diaw, Cameroon Adaptation is dancing to somebody else's music. Innovation is composing … into 2016 with a focus on peer-to-peer Southern NGO learning led by these insights. We'll also be reflecting more closely on what …
Insight, 26 January 2016
Workshop participants touring the Stone Village in China (Photo: Irene Song)
Mountain peoples call for support to protect traditional knowledge
… resources, and setting out eight actions for the international community.   Mountain ecosystems are hotspots of biological and cultural … workshop", visiting water courses and sharing tools for climate adaptation, including community-led landscape management and traditional water management systems. Stone …
News, 04 July 2016
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Crucial conversations: our favourite five
… and impacts of climate change so they can fully engage in the youth-led climate action across the globe. In another contribution Joanes Ooko … blogged about his vision to expand a new tree-planting initiative . A community tree planting event (Photo: copyright Brian Ochieng Otieno, … the grassroots The 13th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to climate change (CBA13) brought together more than 300 …
Insight, 10 March 2020
The rich agro-biodiversity of the Eastern Himalayas (Photo: Nawraj Gurung)
Unmissable opportunity to build food security and reduce GHGs at Paris COP
… processing, transport, packaging and land use change to agriculture . Climate change is already having a negative impact on agricultural … INDCs are country level voluntary offers for emissions reduction and adaptation and must be submitted to the UNFCCC by end of March 2015. For … in the Andean Potato Park near Cusco, concluded that farmer-led equitable partnerships with scientists are critical for successful …
News, 12 February 2015
A herbalist shares information on medicinal and food plants growing in Kaya Kinondo Sacred Coastal Forest in Kenya
Smallholder innovation for resilience (SIFOR)
… and other pressures. Despite their critical importance for adaptation, very little has been invested to sustain these areas of … to strengthen local innovation systems and rights, including community seed banks and registers, novel biocultural products, … innovations and innovation conditions. It also supported the ANDES-led International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples . Conclusions …
Project, 16 August 2013
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Small producer agency in the globalised market: making choices in a changing world
… ranging from poverty reduction and food security to climate change adaptation. Most of the ‘inclusive business’ models and value chain … This book presents the results of a three-year Knowledge Programme led by IIED, Hivos and a global Learning Network, it integrates … economies. This book challenges our institutions and the development community, both in terms of our assumptions on the roles of smallholders …
Publication, 01 November 2012
Experts available at Financing for Development conference
… (IIED) will be in attendance, as well as contributing to a side event led and hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa … social policy. At DFID he worked in a range of roles, from head of a community forestry project in Northern Ghana to leading the social … Kaur's areas of expertise include managing finances for climate adaptation and mitigation, the institutional dimensions of natural …
News, 13 July 2015
Indigeonous communities join government officials, NGOs and academics to participate in a ridge-to-reef mapping workshop in Cagayan de Oro City to identify threats to the forest and environment ecosystem (Photo: Horacio Marcos C. Mordeno, MindaNews, Creative Commons via Flickr)
International Disaster and Risk Conference 2016: key resources
… resilience in cities. IIED's disaster and risk work focuses on local community engagement with climate change impacts, risks, and adaptation, particularly in urban areas. And while IIED's researchers … capacity building and learning is possible - Diane Archer IIED led the three-year Urban Crises Learning Fund , and the programme of …
Article, 28 August 2016