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This farmer in India's Maharashtra state gets weather alerts, advisories about pests and market information via his mobile phone (Photo: Borlaug Institute for South Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)
CBA13: unlocking the power of technology to build climate resilience
… technology will be one of the three themes at the 13th international conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA13) taking place on 1-4 April … Climate change … CBA13: unlocking the power of technology to build climate resilience …
Article, 27 February 2019
The construction of the CCCF Mega Dam in Makueni County, Kenya is an example of local action during a devolved climate finance pilot project (Photo: Japheth Mutuku)
Decentralised model gets climate finance moving
… Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) at the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22) heard how governments in Kenya, … Where local government and community meet Chaired by Pete Betts, director of International Climate … is key," he said. "The decentralised climate finance concept is based on building institutions and setting up mechanisms that others can …
News, 02 December 2016
Reality check: climate change and the poor
… The annual international conferences on community-based adaptation are unique in that they include field trips where … of how communities are adapting. The challenge for me and other conference participants now is to try and work out how these isolated … Climate change … Reality check: climate change and the poor …
Insight, 28 March 2011
Men and women sit around a table listening to a woman talk next to a white flipboard. behind them is a giant illustration related to climate change.
Strengthening ethical and equitable partnerships
… collaboration requires the removal of power injustices and must be based on a shared understanding of equity and fairness. Reimagining … the work of intermediary agencies such as UN bodies, locally led adaptation partners and donors, among others.  We will seek to create … communities of practice, including IIED Debates , conferences on community-based adaptation and the Development and Climate Days …
Project, 27 October 2022
IIED senior fellow Saleemul Huq addresses the CBA8 conference (Photo: Stephanie Andrei)
Can voodoo help to resolve climate change?
… resonance, power and meaning. Today a local-to-local climate change community based adaptation and climate justice movement is emerging across … and threats of climatic change.  From 24-30 April, IIED's 8th annual conference on community based adaptation to climate change (CBA8) took … Climate change …
Insight, 09 May 2014
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Virtual conferences: not in the future, but now
… Last year at a conference I met a project manager and mum who said that she and many of … coffee is invariably better than communicating virtually. Most of the community-based adaptation conferences involved participants visiting communities … Climate change …
Insight, 03 May 2013
A meeting of community members in Bangladesh. Similar meetings will feed into an international network of government planners sharing strategies on how to mainstream climate change into development planning (Photo: Isabelle Lemaire)
Government group network on climate change mainstreaming
… Group Network for Climate Change Mainstreaming. The group is a community of practice of government staff working at national and local … Expertise: Communication & Negotiation, Climate Finance, Local Adaptation Bangladesh Civil Service (Economic Affairs); assistant chief, … development plans. These include national development plans, regional-based development plans, County Integrated Development Plans and …
Project, 29 September 2014
IIED's Krystyna Swiderska discusses the latest research on how indigenous people adapt to climate change at a side event at the 2016 UN climate conference in Marrakech (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
Indigenous people use own knowledge to boost food yields despite climate change, research finds
… project , presented last week at a side event at the UN climate conference (COP22), shows how new innovations based on traditional knowledge and crops of indigenous communities in … diversity and related knowledge that provide vital options for future adaptation, and can increase risk in the face of growing climatic …
News, 22 November 2016
Ruth Nguli looks at her crop of drought-tolerant beans in Makueni County, Kenya. Developing and sharing climate-smart farming techniques can help communities adapt to climate changes (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How do we measure adaptation?
… that the paradigm of inquiry is one of “value for money" and "results based monitoring". Some efforts, such as the Tracking Adaptation and … is not the only one, however . For the large and rapidly growing community of practice working with the most vulnerable (and generally … their pollution? The answer, unfortunately, is "not enough". CBA9 conference This alternative framing of how to measure and enhance the …
Insight, 11 March 2015
A Potato Park farmer in Peru leads the Potato Guardians collective (Photo: Adam Kerby)
Return of potatoes from CIP to Andean farmers proves critical for climate adaptation
… in Lima to negotiate a new global climate deal at the UN climate conference, this innovative, inclusive work shows the importance of new … in the 1960s but had since been lost. The resulting landscape-based gene bank is actively managed by the five Potato Park communities. … climate change impacts on mountain livelihoods and strategies for community based adaptation. IIED, ANDES and UNDP. Saturday 6 December …
News, 27 November 2014