Items tagged:
Droughts
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Insuring against climate risk in Kenya
Vincent Mutie Nzau from the National Treasury of Kenya highlights how innovative approaches to disaster risk finance can help communities manage climate uncertainty
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How oceans dried out the Sahel
Alessandra Giannini challenges the view that local people were to blame for drought in the Sahel in the 1970s and 1980s – and explains how climate models now show the cause lies in the oceans
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2015: the International Year of Soils
The UN has formally launched 2015 as the International Year of Soils. Much of IIED's work involves soils, including our work on agroecology, food and agriculture, biodiversity, adaptation to climate change, and drylands
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Kenya: The importance of cross-border dialogue in the drylands
A meeting between two pastoralist groups has reduced tensions over grazing land and could lead to a cross-county platform for negotiating access to resources during droughts
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Diffa: the morning light
A video tells the stories of how pastoralists in Niger have coped with increasing drought