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Policymakers in Kenya meet with researchers and smallholder farmers to learn about locally appropriate solutions to climate change (Photo: Timothy Mwaura, CIGAR)
Devolved climate finance approach forges new ways of working between citizens and state
… are needed now. Without change, countries face spiralling costs as agriculture becomes less productive, risks of climate-induced … in quality and availability of ecosystem 'services', including water, food, seedbanks and reducing the potential for conflict.  In piloting …
Insight, 09 May 2018
An aerial view of the Southwest Mau Forest and neighbouring tea estates in Kenya (Photo: Patrick Sheperd/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Development finance and land rights: how we can do better
… It is intimately related to human rights such as the right to food , housing and culture. At the same time, land disputes are a major … equipped to address land rights issues? A stocktake of practice in agriculture '. This blog was originally posted on the Land Portal …
Insight, 22 March 2019
Delegates discuss the Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund at the Bangladesh workshop. The fund is part of work to enhance the effectiveness of incentive-based fisheries management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Conservation trust fund proposed to help Bangladesh increase fish stocks
… of our national fish." The hilsa fish (Tenualosa ilisha) is a staple food in Bangladesh. More than half a million people depend on it for … fishing is banned during the breeding season. The government provides food and alternative income-generating activities to compensate fisher …
News, 11 June 2015
Oxen plough a field in Ethiopia.
African land deals: Is a policy shift underway?
… A policy imperative to attract foreign investment so as to modernise agriculture, create jobs and promote economic development has been a key … of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security . There are more opportunities for civil society to …
Insight, 15 July 2013
A Rwandan farmer checks his coffee beans. A banana tree is visible behind him.
Rwanda: test case on international commitment to financing climate change adaptation?
… in Rwanda live in rural areas and work on the land in small-scale agriculture, although tea and coffee exports are also an important source of revenue. As most agriculture is rain fed, people rely on the rains to survive. This, … could have significant impacts on crop yields and rural livelihoods. Food security will be an issue as staple crops, such as maize, are …
Insight, 06 March 2013
Commercial logging in Tengchong, China. Photo: Simon Lim
Supporting locally-controlled forest enterprises
… has been a key feature of our work, where together with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and The Center for People and Forests …
Article, 11 September 2013
Traders take matooke to market
Resilient Dynamism? An informal word with leaders meeting in Davos
… supplies of critical natural resources.” Five years of volatile food, mineral, and energy prices have added to the sense of urgency … came from small-scale producers. And where crop and livestock agriculture is managing to feed rapidly growing urban populations it is … to starting up such mining, and because gold can be traded for food and shelter. Working conditions are dangerous and exploitation …
Insight, 22 January 2013
Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus spoke at the Dhaka adaptation conference. Yunus pioneered the concepts of microcredit and microfinance, and in 2006 won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating economic and social development from below (Photo: IISD Reporting Services)
3rd International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA3)
… CARE Bangladesh Christian Aid UK Danish Embassy in Bangladesh Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Oxfam-GB Practical Action UK WWF UK …
Article, 25 February 2009
Women opening the fruit of the marula tree to extract the kernel for making marula oil (Photo: CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Encouraging collaboration: drafting a new law to stop biopiracy in Namibia
… departments from across government, including the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, the Ministry of Trade and Industry and …
Article, 21 March 2016
Key role for biodiversity in the battle against poverty and climate change
… that sustains farming; and the microscopic plankton at the base of food chains that end with fish on our dinner plates. It includes …
News, 15 October 2010