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Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal (Photo: Sajal Sthapit)
Risky business: assessing potential impacts of REDD+ in Nepal
… prepare to engage with REDD+ , a scheme being negotiated at the UN climate change talks to financially reward countries for reducing greenhouse … deforestation and forest degradation. Take Nepal. Its forests provide livelihoods for rural people and habitats for wild species. They help …
Insight, 09 April 2014
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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012
… Using Ecosystems and Traditional Knowledge to Help People Adapt to Climate Change: Building the Evidence Base This workshop will evaluate … the evidence base and examine the emerging role of ecosystem-based adaptation, agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge. Krystyna … rights and consent (PLA 65) Conservation and Poverty, Landscapes and Livelihoods - What have we learnt about the links? This session will …
Event, 16 August 2012
Annual report 2007/08
… human face of sustainable development. Featured project highlights Climate change Making adaptation planning fully democratic:  thanks to an IIED-run climate … work for business and the poor. Safeguarding nature while fostering livelihoods:  IIED’s ‘payment for ecosystem services’ programme – where …
Page, 23 December 2008
New website shows how nature plus culture equals resilience
… culture are deeply linked. Together they are central to the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of marginalised people around the world, and will be critical to how they respond to climate change and other environmental challenges. To shine a light on this way …
News, 18 May 2011
An example of crops grown through no-till farming in Western Australia (Photo: Bill Crabtree)
Spreading the word about the no-till agricultural revolution
… much of the land in the state of Western Australia. Due to the arid climate and the large extent of wind erosion, the sandy soils were … problem that poses a threat to food production and rural livelihoods. It reduces agricultural productivity, leaving communities … and why conservation agriculture contributes to mitigate climate change. [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9zFLNNH_sY] Bill shared …
Insight, 31 March 2014
Indigenous communities sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, near Cusco, Peru. Credit: Asociacion ANDES
Traditional innovation in farming is under threat
… not fit easily into policy frameworks. But its value will grow as the climate changes and population increases bring more mouths to feed. Yet … innovation systems that link current and past experience, land, livelihoods and cultural values. Another is that agricultural policy … innovation systems for food security in the face of climate change. Methodology Workshop Report, 2013. [2]   Biocultural Heritage …
Insight, 02 October 2013
Housing in informal settlement.
Getting housing back onto the development agenda in the time of COVID-19
… the scale and scope of upgrading. Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation can be integrated into the upgrading; there is so much … (Muungano wa Wanavijiji) that includes support for savings groups, livelihoods loans and loans financing social housing, upgrading, land …
Insight, 02 October 2020
The author with cocoa farmers in Ghana. Farmers on average receive 3 per cent of a chocolate bar price and many are dependent on a single commodity for their livelihoods (Photo: Marisa Camargo)
Zero deforestation supply chains: promoting sustainable chocolate
… long-term higher yield, ecosystems resilience (contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation), and improved livelihoods (e.g. through food security and production diversification). …
Insight, 16 September 2015
Non-literate farmer filmmakers help save biodiversity
… sustain local food systems, the biodiversity they depend on and the livelihoods they support. The project sparked a revival of local food … to increase people’s livelihoods options and ability to adapt to climate change. It also created stable local markets for marginalised producers …
News, 14 May 2008
Waste pickers packing up the recyclable materials, Peru (Photo: Alex Proimos, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Workers in informal economy need say in global environmental agendas
… A world where disastrous climate change is avoided, ecological and resource limits respected, and poverty … and enforced on the informal economy, there is a risk that the livelihoods of already disadvantaged workers and small business …
Insight, 07 December 2015