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The Potato Park, Peru, which hosted a previous meeting of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (Image: IIED)
Mountain communities rebuild diverse, climate-resilient crops
News, 06 October 2015
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Forest Governance Learning Group - South Africa: 2011 work plan
… The Forest Governance Learning Group is an informal alliance of in-country groups and international … development; provide inputs into development of forest sector climate change response strategy; and to develop a ‘policy intelligence tool’. … Forest Governance Learning Group - South Africa: 2011 work plan …
Publication, 01 January 2011
An Ethiopian farmer demonstrates the the impact of rain shortage on his maize crop (Photo: Dagnachew Belachew via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Connecting the dots: Sharing knowledge to build climate resilient green economies
… Climate change policymakers need to be able to find information that matters quickly, so they can use the most up-to-date knowledge on climate resilient planning to develop policies. When they enter the … around the world are developing their policy responses to climate change. We hope this framework can help them look at their own …
Insight, 19 February 2014
India at the UN Climate negotiations: back to the wall
… Of all the baffling going-ons at the recent climate change conference in Durban, what bewildered me most was the position of … policy analysis unit and a visiting fellow with IIED’s Climate Change Group . This blog is based on a forthcoming comment in the Oxford Energy … Climate change … India at the UN Climate negotiations: back to the wall …
Insight, 22 December 2011
Group of seated women looking in the same direction
‘Building back better’ means ‘building back fairer’ after COVID-19
… A  webinar  co-hosted by IIED and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) earlier this month during London Climate Action Week  brought together grassroots networks and social … Climate change …
Insight, 31 July 2020
Dlonguebougou, is a village of 1,500 people in the commune of N'Koumandougou, on the northern edge in central Mali (Image: Google Maps)
Long-term change in the Malian Sahel: portrait of Dlonguebougou village
… in the dryland region of central Mali, has experienced significant change in the last 35 years. This project completed by IIED senior … from the research have been published as a book on 35 years of change in the Malian Sahel  considering land use change and the significance of large household size as a risk-sharing …
Project, 14 August 2017
Pastoralists are 'invisible assets' in fight against poverty and climate change
… that pastoralists bring to national economies and efforts to confront climate change, says the International Institute for Environment and Development … livelihood systems to cope with difficult environments, global climate change is raising new challenges for them. "Action at local, … Pastoralists are 'invisible assets' in fight against poverty and climate change …
News, 18 June 2009
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Incremental progress but limited ambition: COP26 delivers mixed results for LDCs
… enough political impetus, trust in the entire UN-led process on climate action hung in the balance as delegates arrived in Glasgow for COP26, particularly for climate vulnerable countries such as those comprising the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) Group. The Summit’s key outcome document − the Glasgow Climate Pact − …
Publication, 31 May 2022
Aerial natural landscape.
From New Zealand to Africa: managing land use trade-offs
… rainforest. Faced with rapid population growth and severe climate change impacts – including droughts and pest outbreaks – they will have … land use choices. After my sabbatical, I shared the idea with a group of UK, Ethiopia, Ghana and Zambia-based researchers who are part … Climate change …
Insight, 04 March 2022
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A study of LDC capacity at the UNFCCC
… 48 of the 197~parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate~Change (UNFCCC). Not only are they the world’s poorest~economies, they … of climate~change. Since 2001, they have acted together as the LDC Group in~UNFCCC negotiations. But as well as providing assistance, this … Climate change …
Publication, 01 June 2016