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Malawi
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Delivering high-quality, predictable and accessible climate finance for least developed countries
Increasing climate finance is high on the COP26 agenda; but for climate finance to bring lasting change it must be provided over the long term, be accessible and go towards strengthening governance systems
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What does the Paris Agreement’s transparency framework mean for LDCs?
The Paris Agreement offers a global framework to work together to avoid the worst impacts of climate ch
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No room for manoeuvre: debt prevents investing in the future
This case study highlights the challenges that farmers in Malawi face when trying to intensify their agricultural production. It focuses on smallholder farmers in the Mwansambo area of Central Malawi. Mwansambo and neighbouring areas are important food and cash crop producing regions. But despite decades of agricultural development interventions, farmers are still struggling to feed their families and invest in sustainable land management
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Q&A: Achieving sustainable intensification of agriculture – decisions and trade-offs
How can African farmers intensify agricultural production in an environmentally and socially sustainable way? A recent project sought answers and insights for policymakers
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Transparent climate reporting in Malawi: what’s needed, what’s next?
The Paris Agreement’s transparency guidelines allow least developed countries extra time and support to meet new climate reporting criteria, but meet it they must. Yamikani Idriss describes Malawi’s progress to date and support still needed
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Building transparency and trust into smallholder commodity trading and contract farming
Smallholder farmers have long had difficulties getting a fair price for their produce. A recent IIED webinar discussed how linking farmers to commodity exchanges and an ‘incentive-based’ contract farming (IBCF) approach can help improve farmer-buyer relations and establish more transparent trading arrangements
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Technologies for sustainable development: mind the gender gap
New technologies are advancing sustainable development in Malawi. But these technologies must be designed to meet the needs of the group most likely to use them: women
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People with disabilities struggle in Malawi's cities
How can the Sustainable Development Goals help children with disabilities in Malawi's cities?
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Q&A: We must ensure Paris delivers on finance
Rosebell Kagumire, a Ugandan-based journalist and a member of IIED's Independent Expert Group spoke to Malawian negotiator Evans Njewa ahead of the Paris climate talks
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Achieving universal sanitation: Sharing the experience of the SDI affiliate in Blantyre, Malawi
Achieving universal sanitation is a major challenge. A joint delegation from Malawi came to World Water Week in Stockholm to share their work on sanitation in the city of Blantyre
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Helping parliamentarians drive national climate change policy
Members of parliament can help break the international stalemate on climate change action by ‘domesticating’ global decisions, using national legislation. But to do that they often need long-term capacity-building programmes to catalyse the process: programmes that have support within the government and across parliaments
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Helping parliaments across the Southern African Customs Union region address climate change
Parliamentarians can play a key role in building climate resilience by bringing constituents' concerns into national forums, scrutinising how governments are responding to domestic and global climate change issues, and ensuring policy continuity
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Five-nation study sheds light on costs of adapting agriculture to climate change
Research in Africa and Asia has shown that efforts to assess the costs of adapting agriculture to a changing climate often fail to reflect the diversity of the sector.
