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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
… different agricultural and tree crops and as new enterprises develop, based on this mosaic of forest and farms, they offer an integrated, … helping these men and women farmers to adapt to, and mitigate, climate change – a modern solution to problems cause by an outdated … apparent at the World Rural Forum as participants began to present solutions. Twenty-five English-speaking family farming organisations …
Insight, 04 April 2019
An early sunrise at COP14 in Poznan (Photo: Friends of the Earth, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
COP14 UN Climate Change Conference
… of the Parties (COP14) for the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)  has ended, and we can look back with pride on … of 4 °C – even though most impact and adaptation research is based on 2 °C.   First Words. Now action: Time for a new deal on climate … Climate change is often seen as a global problem demanding global solutions. But for poor people hit hard by the impacts, climate change …
Event, 20 December 2008
Rural landscape with plants growing in the land. People gather in the background
IIED at 50 must be ready to listen and change: Liz Carlile and Tara Shine in conversation
… silos. In fact, now as the urgency to protect, restore and regenerate nature steps up, and as the urgency around climate action steps up, it’s … our knowledge fits into making change happen. Large-scale ecosystem-based adaptation project in The Gambia. "Climate change is caused by … take the time to listen. And to amplify those voices so that the solutions we come to are ones that benefit people and the planet. Yep. …
Article, 19 August 2021
Crop field with man watering the soil.
Reconciling food production and forest conservation: priorities for the UN Food Systems Summit
… action tracks . I will be following action track three – to boost nature-positive food production by optimising resource use in food … initiatives aim to highlight the problem and propose potential solutions to national governments. One example is the Social and … Invest in risk mitigation and management strategies such as weather-based index insurance to build resilience against climate shocks. 3. …
Insight, 20 September 2021
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2017 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2017: publications
… of a global dialogue series planned by IIED to facilitate the rights-based formalisation of ASM within a more inclusive and responsible … Policy and decision-makers are increasingly recognising that nature-based solutions or ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) may often provide the most …
Article, 28 December 2017
Protestors march during UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen.
People power critical for tackling climate change
Insight, 26 November 2012
Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… the 38 indigenous peoples within the country. This oversees three new climate change mechanisms covering: Joint mitigation and adaptation … mitigate climate change through business models that put the holistic nature of sustainable forest farm management at the foundation. MCMA is … registration at community-level. Secondly, many of the community-based forest farm producer organisations have yet to develop their …
Insight, 25 November 2014
Pastoralists pull water from a well near Denan in the Somali Region of Ethiopia for their camels. (Photo: Andrew Heavens, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Pastoralism and policy training: addressing misconceptions and informing dialogue
Project, 17 December 2012
Ethiopia's Simien Mountains National Park is a World Heritage Site, but resource degradation has made lowland areas vulnerable to flooding caused by changing rainfall patterns. (Photo: Hulivili, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Building zero carbon emission economy in a decade
Article, 24 November 2015
A community workshop. Social learning processes were a key element of a successful 10-year collaboration between the International Potato Centre (CIP) and indigenous communities in the Peruvian Andes (Photo: IIED)
It's the process, stupid 
… As climate change escalates and its impacts deepen, resources to support … a quick response to changing evidence or contexts. This leads to solutions that are more appropriate and sustainable. They can also help … and decision making should be front and centre if flexible, process-based problem solving is to be effective.  We saw the five initiatives …
Insight, 16 March 2017