IIED at London Climate Action Week
14-20 November
This is the second series of London Climate Action Week events this year, with IIED again taking part following the successful series in July. This week of events falls on the dates when the UN climate summit (COP26) was originally scheduled, and is now a major milestone building momentum towards the rearranged summit in November 2021.
We are working with partners ICCCAD and WRI, holding three LCAW2020 events that span the links between climate, nature and development; capacity building at all levels; and climate finance.
Find out more about our events and register to attend.
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Blog by Camilla Toulmin and Saverio Krätli
Farmer-herder conflict: open your eyes, change the narrative, find solutions
New research uproots deep-set trend to help understand increasing violence in dryland Africa through the lens of ‘farmer-herder conflict’.
Read the blog and download the new research.
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"Herders have a lot to teach us all about prospering by producing food from a variable environment."
– Camilla Toulmin and Saverio Krätli
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Online event
Food systems of the poor: shaping the agenda for the Food Systems Summit
The world is producing more food than ever, but hunger and malnutrition persist, and production methods are harming our natural environment. In the lead up to the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021, join this IIED event on 25 November to learn how food systems transformation can be relevant for people living in poverty.
Find out more and register now.
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Guest blog by Arif Hasan
Urban flooding: the case of Karachi
Governments are quick to blame devastating floods on climate change. But many reasons for these floods are to do with what governments have not done. Arif Hasan reviews why disastrous floods are taking place in Karachi and what is needed for this to change.
Read the blog now.
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Guest blog by Mama Mouamfon and Cedric Thibaut Kamogne Tagne
How is COVID-19 affecting wild meat consumption in rural Cameroon?
A series of interviews with residents from Cameroon’s Dja Faunal Reserve uncover how COVID-19 is influencing the wild meat they hunt, buy, sell and eat.
Read the guest blog.
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News
Save the date for 2020 Development and Climate Days
This year’s climate change summit may be postponed, but the 18th annual D&C Days will go ahead in an online format from 2-3 December. As part of the Understanding Risk Forum 2020 (UR2020), the world’s primary event bringing together experts and practitioners in the field of disaster risk assessment and risk communication, D&C Days has the digital platform for two days of discussion and dialogue.
Find out more and mark your calendar.
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Working paper, 54 pages
Good climate finance guide: lessons for strengthening devolved climate finance
Society’s most marginalised people have little say on the triple crisis of climate change, nature degradation and poverty; yet they are most affected by it. Climate finance is a key resource to help deal with the impacts of this crisis. This paper uses six criteria for ‘good climate finance’ to draw lessons and to understand where climate finance is being delivered effectively to support locally led solutions. It presents recommendations for how climate finance could better support local actors to access and deliver the climate finance that they need to build their own solutions.
Download the working paper.
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Toolkit, 68 pages
Wild meat alternative projects: practical guidance for project design
This guide provides practical advice for conservation experts on how to design projects to reduce the consumption of wild meat by promoting alternative sources of protein. There is no one size fits all approach to successful project design, but in five comprehensive steps, it explains how practitioners can develop the right project for the community in which they work.
Download the toolkit in English / en français.
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Research report, 104 pages
Farmer-herder conflict in sub-Saharan Africa?
This report responds to concerns over rising levels of farmer-herder conflict across a wide band of semi-arid Africa. We assess the quantitative evidence behind this and review the explanations in the scientific literature, in the light of known issues with long-standing attitudes towards pastoralism and mobile populations. Looking at the data available, we find that total levels of all forms of violence have been rising in the last ten years — especially in some countries in West and Central Africa. However, there is no evidence that incidents associated with farming and herding, or more generally incidents involving pastoralist populations, have grown at a faster rate than all other forms of violence.
Download the research report in English / en français.
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Briefing
Calling for business unusual: why local leadership matters
While most development interventions aim to benefit local people, they remain overwhelmingly top-down and exclude the perspectives of poor people. When funders do devolve resources, power over the purse strings often remains with international or national actors. Rather than building capabilities and giving people the agency to adapt to climate change, conserve their ecosystems and develop sustainably, this business-as-usual approach often entrenches the systemic issues that make people vulnerable. Funders must cede resources, rights and power to local actors, who are closer and more accountable to local people.
Download the briefing.
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