Drylands and pastoralism

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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

Top: Sohel Ahmed and colleague prepare to release the balloon; bottom: Some of the photographs taken from the air (Photos: Sohel Ahmed)

Up in the air: Citizen scientists map food dangers in Nairobi

Insight, 31 March 2014

Somali and Boran pastoralists came together to discuss ways to share water resources at a meeting this month. (Credit: James Pattison)

Kenya: The importance of cross-border dialogue in the drylands

Insight, 19 March 2014

Senbetge, in Ethiopia's Amhara region is prone to droughts and flooding. Credit: EC DG ECHO (Creative Commons Licence)

Six nations to share progress on measuring adaptation to climate change

News, 19 March 2014

Community-based conservation has worked for black rhinos (Photo: Park Street Pro via http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Wanted: Community wildlife conservation success stories

Insight, 03 March 2014

IIED staff and partners gather to give feedback to planned presentations (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Communications learning week (February 2014): highlights

Article, 13 February 2014

People living amid the arid terrain of Wajir in Kenya will benefit from the expansion of a pilot project (Photo: Oxfam East Africa via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Kenyan local climate fund's success heralds expansion to 29% of nation

News, 24 January 2014

Maps drawn by community groups before being transferred to a geo-referenced satellite map projected on a wall (Photo: James Pattinson)

Maps that build bridges

Article, 19 December 2013

Identifying social impacts at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya

Assessing social impacts of protected and conserved areas (SAPA)

Active Project

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Community maps reveal rich resources of land policymakers think is empty

Insight, 25 April 2013

A man walks with his roaming goats.

Current policy narratives limit climate resilience in world’s dry regions

News, 19 April 2013

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Share the love this Valentine’s day with fairer flowers and chocolates

Insight, 13 February 2013

A woman makes clothes for SOKO, a Kenyan textiles supplier that combines fashion manufacturing with bettering local livelihoods.

SOKO: Learning lessons on how to add value to the East African apparel sector

Insight, 11 February 2013

Traders take matooke to market

Resilient Dynamism? An informal word with leaders meeting in Davos

Insight, 22 January 2013

Solar panels on a floating school, Bangladesh

Understanding the political economy of the Climate Investment Funds

Archived Project

A screenshot from the Education for Nomads: Voices of the people video (Image: IIED)

Educating nomads

Archived Project

A male shepherdwith a stick leads dozens of sheep winding behind him on a dusty trail

Valuing variability

Article

Discussing climate resilience in Kinna, northern Kenya.

How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway?

Insight, 06 December 2012

People spread cocoa beans on a drying table in Ghana.

New business models can spell success for African farmers

News, 19 November 2012

Pastoralists with their goats in Niger.

Why following the herd can be good for Kenyan media

Insight, 11 October 2012

A man leads a herd of camels with the sun setting behind them.

What’s in a narrative? In policy, everything or nothing

Insight, 28 September 2012

A smallholder farmer stands by a bunch of sunflowers in Thika, Kenya.

How markets can bloom for Africa's smallholder farmers

Insight, 06 September 2012

A farmer tending his sunflowers in Kenya. Credit: Abbi Buxton

A day in the life of a commercial consultant

Insight, 14 February 2012

A young parliamentarian addresses the Shadow Children’s Parliament in Lesotho, Credit: World Vision Lesotho

What makes a citizen?

Insight, 09 January 2012

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