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WoDaaBe pastoralist with his cattle.
Pastoral livelihoods and climate change in Niger
… pastoral groups in eastern Niger are adapting in practice to climate change. Fieldwork was completed documenting the differentiated impact of climate change on  six different pastoral communities, the strategies … Pastoral livelihoods and climate change in Niger …
Project, 05 February 2010
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Food security in the context of Vietnam’s rural – urban linkages and climate change
… Despite its modest contribution to climate change, Vietnam is expected to be heavily affected by its impacts. … the main staple, and one of its main global exporters, environmental change has a disproportionate impact on the food security of the most … should be seen as a key element of development and adaptation to climate change. …
Publication, 01 December 2013
Vegetable garden in the middle of a city street
Argentinian city Rosario wins award for urban sustainability
News, 08 July 2021
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Towards housing justice
… with systemic challenges, acting to deepen inequalities, worsen the climate crisis, and limit progress towards achieving and localising the … agenda that addresses the twin challenges of growing inequalities and climate change. This will encompass research, capacity development, policy …
Publication, 13 March 2023
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
A maize farmer near Alauca, Honduras, takes a break from digging irrigation channels. Climate change in the form of higher temperatures and less rain is expected to have a big impact on Central American crops and farmers, and decision-makers need information on climate change adaptation (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Creative Commons)
Will divisions in the board delay the Green Climate Fund?
Insight, 18 November 2014
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Responding to a growing crisis: LDC expectations for COP27
Publication, 24 October 2022
People planting mushrooms.
Redesigning grant making for locally-led conservation
… Arcus Foundation and as part of the People and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) , in 2023, IIED designed and delivered a small grants … locally led adaptation (LLA) principles – developed to ensure that climate adaptation finance is designed and delivered by local actors – … essential for local actors, whether they are responding to climate change or biodiversity loss.  Facing the contradiction  As one of more …
Insight, 26 February 2024
Climate change negotiators have several gaps to bridge at the COP19 talks. Photo credit: Oxfam International
COP19: What the Least Developed Countries expect from the climate talks
… the 19th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the latest round of negotiations towards an international … in the talks are the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) . This group, which represents around one billion people from the world’s … Climate change … COP19: What the Least Developed Countries expect from the climate talks …
Insight, 06 November 2013
The "perils of business as normal": IIED responds to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report
… The report confirms that there is now extreme certainty that climate change is happening, and that all warming since 1951 is due to human … contributed to the report issued by the Fifth Assessment Working Group II, which was published in March 2014 . Quotes Camilla Toulmin, … as normal": IIED responds to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report …
News, 03 November 2014