Drylands and pastoralism

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Kenya

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A community discusses water and energy challenges in Alango, Kenya (Photo: Ibrahim Jarso, Resource Advocacy Program)

Participatory investment planning for environment, water and energy in the dryland of northern Kenya

Archived Project

Learning route participants interact with local communities in Isiolo, Kenya (Photo: Timothy Mwaura/CGIAR)

Seven ways to build resilient local economies in fragile contexts

Insight, 24 August 2016

Group of people listening to a man talking

Accessing climate finance in Kenya

Insight, 18 April 2016

South Africa President Jacob Zuma speaks to China counterpart Xi Jinping at the FOCAC summit in Sandton, Johannesburg in 2015. China is increasingly influential in Africa (Photo: GCIS/GovernmentZA, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

CSR practices of Chinese businesses in the global South

Insight, 31 March 2016

A woman explains the importance of guarding against future encroachments on her community's common land in Northern Uganda (Photo: LEMU)

Protecting land and community resources in Africa

Insight, 07 March 2016

A welder uses home-made equpiment in Kenya, where the Jua Kali (informal economy) thrives and can solve any problem (Photo: Erik (HASH) Hersman, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Lessons from the informal sector

Insight, 24 February 2016

Food vendors give people living in Nairobi's informal settlements easy access to fresh food (Photo: Grace Githiri)

Nourishing livelihoods: the food vendors sustaining Nairobi's slums

Insight, 15 January 2016

A typical Kenya milk bar. Packaged milk in supermarkets has been found to be no better at meeting food safety standards than raw milk sold from kiosks (Photo: International Livestock Research Institute, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Lessons in informality from Kenya's dairy sector

Insight, 03 November 2015

Stunted crops in the Kaffrine region of Senegal are the result of a lack of rainfall, jeopardising farmers’ harvests (Photo: Daniella Van Leggelo-Padilla/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Local climate adaptation: bridging the funding gap

Insight, 09 July 2015

A six-minute film recorded in the Mathare settlement, Narobi, in late April 2015 shows some of the main challenges faced by food vendors living and working inside low-income informal settlements (Image: Paolo Cravero/IIED)

Informal food vendors: urban food security's invisible experts

Insight, 24 June 2015

Standing alongside IIED senior fellow Saleemul Huq, Evah Wanjiru reads her poem 'Shadows in the child's memories' to participants at CBA9 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Shadows in the child's memories

Insight, 07 May 2015

The CBA9 participants gather for a group photo on the final day of the conference, shortly after the Nairobi Declaration was announced (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

CBA9 highlights

Article, 05 May 2015

The Nairobi Declaration will be taken to this year's UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) by Fatima Mohamed Hussein, on behalf of the Kenyan government, the conference hosts (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Global leaders must not neglect the world's poor and vulnerable

News, 30 April 2015

Workers build up the banks of the Teesta River in Bangladesh. Bangladesh already spends six per cent of its annual budget on climate change adaptation (Photo: International Rivers, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Musings from a first timer at a CBA conference

Insight, 30 April 2015

The Maasai believe that community-managed slaughterhouses can help fight climate change. Here, effluent is stored in ponds (Photo: Hannah Reid/IIED)

Slaughterhouse five

Insight, 29 April 2015

Sign on community property near Kampala, Uganda (Photo: Rachael Knight/Namati)

Using the law for resource justice

Insight, 28 April 2015

CBA9 starts with opening speeches - but will quickly make way for films and games (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

A community of doers: celebrating the CBA conferences, and looking forward

Insight, 28 April 2015

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

News, 27 April 2015

Song, dancing & tomatoes were on the agenda when a CBA9 field trip was hosted by the Likia Conservancy Self-Help Group, which showed participants its fish farming and beehives (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

CBA9 highlights – pre-conference field trips

News, 26 April 2015

Resource scouts such as Abdelkader, pictured in the Ewaso Ng'iro river bed, Isiolo County, gauge how best to use dry-season grazing areas (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)

The economics of local adaptation in the dryland ecosystems of Isiolo County

Insight, 22 April 2015

Pastoralists in Isiolo County mapping community resources, such as water sources and good grazing areas. This pilot project developed a mechanism that allows local people to identify investments that can build their resilience to climate change. (Photo: James Pattison/IIED)

Award win highlights collaboration for Kenya climate resilience

News, 15 April 2015

CBA9: 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9)

Event on 24 April 2015

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

Insight, 11 November 2014

Ol Pejeta Conservancy in northern Kenya is home to four of the seven northern white rhino left in the world. The park is using SAPA as part of its community programme (Photo: Guy Lemal)

Piloting Social Assessment of Protected Areas: some initial reflections

Insight, 23 September 2014

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