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A woman scoops water in a dry riverbed near Kataboi village in the Turkana region of Northern Kenya (Photo: Marisol Grandon/DFID via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Kenya's new climate fund listens to community ideas for building resilience
Insight, 03 April 2014
A road full of congested traffic.
IIED and partner events at the World Urban Forum (WUF10)
… ambition and innovation. The second session explored how community-led action and putting people at the heart of climate and development … celebrating and spotlighting transformative urban change. Grassroots-led upgrading at scale: innovations in partnerships and community media … and civil society partners to develop a path-breaking community-led upgrading process. Nairobi’s county government declared Mukuru a …
Event, 08 February 2020
Forests, resilience and climate change
Project, 11 June 2008
More than 100 representatives of indigenous mountain communities met in Peru's Potato Park in April 2017 to share their expertise and build their international network (Photo: Lucia Flórez Zelaya)
Mountain indigenous peoples call for support for biocultural landscapes to achieve the SDGs
News, 28 June 2017
Cattle are driven down a road by nomads
Climate change is advancing in Nigeria: we can’t keep running
Insight, 17 December 2019
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2016 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2016: publications
… and citizens, review processes must incorporate rigorous, country led evaluations that examine policy and programme implementation and … they impact on people, the planet and the economy. Ecosystem-based adaptation: a win-win formula for sustainability in a warming world? … world's capacity to adapt to climate change, and that ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approaches should be harnessed as a priority.  EbA has …
Article, 02 January 2017
Bolivian family farming organisations show a poster about their award-winning coffee business development activity at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Modern food systems to emerge in new decade of family farming
… and resilience through sustainable natural resource management Farmer-led innovations in business incubation and financial service provision … organisations supported in the 10 partner countries of Phase I  has led to an expanded ambition for Phase II , including the addition of …
Insight, 04 April 2019
COP22 side events
IIED and partner events at COP22
Event, 05 November 2016
Workshop participants touring the Stone Village in China (Photo: Irene Song)
Mountain peoples call for support to protect traditional knowledge
… workshop", visiting water courses and sharing tools for climate adaptation, including community-led landscape management and traditional water management systems. Stone … research, decision-making, policy and planning for climate change adaptation.  Participants also shared information on community seed …
News, 04 July 2016
Screenshots from IIED best videos
IIED's best of 2020: videos
… to limitations imposed on travel because of the COVID-19 pandemic, led to wider acknowledgement of the digital divide and the issues that … and shifting the 14th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA14)  online. This will feature insight into research and …
Insight, 30 December 2020