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A woman carrying groceries in the village of Bouwéré, Mali. Assessments looked at how women experienced resilience to climate disruption (Photo: P.Casier/CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Monitoring and evaluation in a local context
… In the BRACED Decentralising Climate Funds project led by the Near East Foundation , we support local … public goods. The project teams are setting up and supporting local adaptation committees within local governments. Local climate funds are … the local context to invest in public goods that will support their livelihoods in times of climate shocks and stresses. The project has set …
Insight, 18 July 2016
Protesters with a banner
IIED's best of 2019: blogs
… Greta Thunberg April:  IIED director Andrew Norton hailed the 2019 climate protests as a moment of hope.  Norton said big shifts in world … navigate more than 240 tools and methods relevant to ecosystem-based adaptation. Indigenous peoples and local communities have been working … with nature for decades: they depend on healthy ecosystems for their livelihoods.    10 Steering gender to the centre of the blue economy …
Article, 27 December 2019
Bangladesh: mangrove island reflects people's creativitiy
… one of the field trips at this year’s conference on community-based adaptation . I set out for my field trip with a mixture of excitement … the local farmers from planting fruit or vegetable trees. Adapting to change The local community is adapting to these challenges in many ways. … ecosystems are fiercely determined to adapt to extreme conditions and climate variability and change and highly creative in finding ways to do …
Insight, 28 March 2011
Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… .  2 Tackling the triple crisis: using debt swaps to address debt, climate and nature loss post-COVID-19 I ssue paper  Even before … disputes from below: whose rights matter? Mining, environment and livelihoods in Colombia . International investment treaties are a key … other areas,” says IIED’s Paul Steele . 5 What is effective climate adaptation? Case studies from the least developed countries I ssue paper …
Article, 23 December 2020
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Climate Change And Development Consultation On Key Researchable Issues Section 4: South Asia Region Section 4.1. South Asian Regional Scoping Study
… Document begins: CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT CONSULTATION ON KEY RESEARCHABLE ISSUES … AREAS AND CLI MATE CHANGE 23 PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLI MATE CHANGE 25 LIVELIHOODS AND CLIMATE CHANGE 26 ECOSYSTEMS AND CLIMAT E CHANGE 29 … REFERENCES 33 ANNEX 1: CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT AND ADAPTATION 36 STUDIES AND PROGRAMMES IN SOUTH ASIA : COMPLETED AND …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Moveable feast: the floating gardens of Bangladesh
… How some of the world’s poorest farmers are coping with climate change The farmers of southern Bangladesh have seen it all: … adversity. So IIED, with CLACC 1 — its network of experts working on adaptation in the poorest countries — is exploring community-based … usual or at unexpected times, the risk to poor farmers’ lives and livelihoods rises with them. Crops can disappear, the silt bars many …
Article, 03 October 2008
Colourful illustrations from the 2020 annual review
IIED launches annual review of 2020
… the institute and its partners responded to an extraordinary year of change. The year was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and its impacts … to working with young people and women in Tanzania, to protecting livelihoods and ecosystems in Myanmar, to changing the narrative around … South have been the backbone of the response to both COVID-19 and the climate crisis. We have been sharing experiences of how communities cope …
News, 11 February 2021
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Smallholder Innovation for Resilience (SIFOR) - Qualitative Baseline Study, Mijikenda Community, Kenyan Coast
… the findings of a qualitative baseline study on the farming systems, livelihoods,crop varieties, forest use and indigenous knowledge and … as drought and pest resistance, traditional farming practices and climate change response strategies. It also sought to understand the factors or …
Publication, 01 October 2014
The Up in Smoke coalition is a unique and diverse network of development and environment organisations
Up in Smoke
… Until 2000 climate change was largely seen as an environmental issue. Climate … to the impacts of projected change because widespread poverty limits adaptation capabilities”. The first report on Africa features a foreword … that there are better ways to organise economies, communities and livelihoods. It presents a wide ranging analysis to support changes to …
Project, 21 August 2008
A cup of coffee. We are drinking more coffee: the International Coffee Organisation says world coffee consumption has been rising by an average of 2.3 per cent per year (Photo: Benedicto de Jesus, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A new kind of brew: smallholder coffee and carbon
… farmers.  And these farmers are facing the incoming tide of climate change. Coffee quality and yields are highly sensitive to … promote a low-carbon coffee sector that is compatible with resilient livelihoods.  According to Ivannia Quesada, Vice Minister of Agriculture … financial sector. But the problems, and solutions, to climate change adaptation and mitigation require long-term thinking and acting.  …
Insight, 08 December 2015