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Illustrator Jorge Martin creates a 'living graphic' to chart the conversations on 'tough talk on poverty and climate' at the 2015 Development & Climate Days (Photo: IIED/Matt Wright)
Participants in Development & Climate Days focus on "bold action needed now"
Insight, 06 December 2015
At CBA12 participants talked about the different ways their cultures create inclusive spaces to reach consensus-based decisions (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
The power of storytelling: can traditions from the past find answers to the climate problem?
… for the collective good.  This year’s CBA12 event , focusing on locally-driven climate action, brought together 300 participants from 45 … Mary Robinson , former president of Ireland and UN high commissioner, led the session and described a cèilidh which was traditionally a …
Insight, 17 August 2018
Indigeonous communities join government officials, NGOs and academics to participate in a ridge-to-reef mapping workshop in Cagayan de Oro City to identify threats to the forest and environment ecosystem (Photo: Horacio Marcos C. Mordeno, MindaNews, Creative Commons via Flickr)
International Disaster and Risk Conference 2016: key resources
Article, 28 August 2016
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… book provides new and compelling community perspectives that policy-led strategies for the drylands need to adapt if they are to be truly … IIED, Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative (DLCI), the Adaptation Consortium and funded by the Ford Foundation . Notes to … county government to access global climate finance fund in support of adaptation and climate resilient development and to mainstream …
News, 27 April 2015
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
… by identifying policies, institutions and technologies that enable locally driven design of resilient agri-food systems. Such systems are … benefits of transforming our industrialised linear systems into locally-controlled circular systems, which mimic the closed-loops of … of agricultural biodiversity in Europe . These projects were led by Dr Michel Pimbert, who is now director of the Centre for …
Project, 14 August 2013
A plantation
Q&A: helping communities protect their land rights
… The initiative focuses on peer-to-peer learning, rather than expert-led training; each participating NGO is allocated time to teach their …
Article, 27 January 2020
The rich agro-biodiversity of the Eastern Himalayas (Photo: Nawraj Gurung)
Unmissable opportunity to build food security and reduce GHGs at Paris COP
… INDCs are country level voluntary offers for emissions reduction and adaptation and must be submitted to the UNFCCC by end of March 2015. For developing countries, the challenge will be to identify adaptation options that have co-benefits for mitigation. Linking … in the Andean Potato Park near Cusco, concluded that farmer-led equitable partnerships with scientists are critical for successful …
News, 12 February 2015
Miners on a steep hillside mine tungsten
Secure land rights are now more important than ever
… of land-based investments. The project is implemented by a consortium led by IIED, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) and …
Insight, 29 January 2021
Water with open sewage is stagnant in a built up area
Planning for reality in one of Nairobi’s largest ‘slums’
… muddy pathways with open sewage running down the middle. The path led to an expanse of water – foul smelling, full of rubbish and …
Insight, 04 December 2019
A woman hands protective equipment to another woman.
Engaging pastoralist communities through citizen movements to amplify their voice
Article, 11 December 2020