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A huge selection of photos are displayed in a Peru supermarket (Photo: Teresa Stanton, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Nourishing diversity in our food systems
… brings long-term increasing risks for agricultural production, for livelihoods, and for nutrition. It also undermines the ability of agriculture to adapt to climate change. What can be done? Citizens currently have little input into food …
Insight, 10 October 2017
Image of Namibian drylands with a stone hill rising in the background.
3-point action plan for leaders at Rio+20 summit
… and other resources, in ways that create jobs, profits and secure livelihoods in both rural and urban areas. "When governments recognise … long-term adaptive capacity, more diverse economic activities, and climate-resilient growth. "Decentralised energy supplies, new approaches … and can mask the unsustainable aspects of growth. "We need to change the way we measure progress and address the market failures that …
News, 22 May 2012
Leaders of the Southern Aberdare Conservation Network (SACN) discussing support from the Forest and Farm Facility (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Taking the brakes off forest farm development in Kenya
… cover 10 per cent of Kenya's land area while also improving rural livelihoods. Since 80 per cent of Kenya's annual wood supply goes to … in Kenya. As Kenya and the world struggle to adapt to and mitigate climate change, the FFF approach of investing in locally controlled forestry …
Insight, 11 November 2014
Young people in Okola, Cameroon, cluster around a Global Positioning System that they are using to create a community map with geographical features.
Future world: addressing the contradictions of planet, people, power and profits
… all this have on marine and land environments? Society, values and livelihoods. This sets out the need to shift from individual to … and politicians, and the persistence of a pro-market ideology. Climate change. All nations now recognise the need to adapt to climate … local government in Nepal with the funds to tackle climate change adaptation , to India’s biometric database designed to implement a …
Insight, 07 June 2013
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Research Partnerships for SD: A Keystone of the Johannesburg Plan
… now rarely apply. The uncertain effects of climatic and environmental change, market liberalisation, and increased migration and social … jobs each year? How to establish and protect rights to sustainable livelihoods? and How to develop empirical baselines for assessing SD? …
Publication, 01 January 2003
United Nations decision prompts potato celebration in Peru
… because intellectual property rights, neoliberal development models, climate change and genetically modified crops all pose threats to the culture, ecology and livelihoods of Peru’s indigenous communities for whom the potato is more … and return them to the communities who can use them to support local adaptation systems," said Alejandro Argumedo, director of Asociacion …
News, 31 October 2007
Old woman in profile in front of thatched hut and mud house. Niger.
Making gender and generation matter
… In turn, their remittances are often a crucial element of rural livelihoods, especially in areas where family farming is under threat …   Raising the profile of Gender and Generation: The role of the Climate Change Media Partnership : this paper details the initiatives … are taken into account in the development of policies and plans for adaptation to climate change in Nepal and investigates the opportunities …
Project, 26 April 2011
A busy side street in the settlement of Dharavi
Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
… for the city economy and even greater importance as the source of livelihoods for most of the low-income population. The economy of … urban populations. Data to measure progress on the Paris Agreement on climate change also operates at this national level. Implementing international …
Insight, 25 February 2020
Large dams can bring long-term benefits for displaced communities, says study
… to stay and more are being planned. Countries are choosing them as an adaptation to food insecurity, rising energy prices and climate change so it is essential that they build 'good dams', where the … relations, public support for infrastructure development and improved livelihoods. "The main beneficiaries of dams tend to be urban citizens …
News, 05 November 2009
Annual reports 2001-2006
… together with good management is the key to growing incomes and livelihoods. Download the 2005/06 Annual Report from IIED's Publications Library IIED Annual Report 2004/05: Climate change The 2004/05 Annual Report focuses on the global challenge of …
Page, 18 April 2005