Locally led adaption to climate change: the start of a 10-year learning journey
This week, a fast-growing group of experts are meeting online at the Gobeshona Global Conference to define a 10-year learning agenda to advance principles for critical locally led adaption to climate change. Saleemul Huq and Clare Shakya explain the importance of this group and the journey ahead in a new blog.
Read their blog.
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Case study
Helping indigenous communities secure land rights in Nepal
A land rights project in Nepal is working with young people to map land claims and help more than 2,000 Indigenous farmers get legal title to the lands their families have farmed for generations. The project is being supported by local officials and is attracting interest from local governments across Nepal.
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"We have been cultivating around one hectare of public land since 1978, without legal rights. Because of this, we have always been afraid of being evicted – we have been threatened by forest management authorities many times. Sometimes we have been charged as encroachers. So I need the right to this land to be safe and for my children’s future"
– Nepali local farmer, Yasoda Neupane
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Blog by Emily Polack
Promoting producer agency in food systems – might new global guidelines offer any hope?
With a new set of guidelines on food systems and nutrition under negotiation, Emily Polack reflects on their potential to give small-scale producers a greater say in food systems governance – one key to a healthier, fairer and more sustainable future for all.
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News
Call for evidence: effective learning for climate adaptation and resilience
The LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR) is inviting submissions on effective practice – approaches, methods and incentives – for building a strong community of practice. The submissions will contribute to the development of a learning and knowledge platform.
Find out more and make a submission.
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Blog by Rosalind Goodrich
Exploring intersectionality: what does it look like for IIED and our partners?
A recent learning lunch at IIED prompted Rosalind Goodrich to reflect on how we and our partners understand and address complex and interconnected inequalities in our research and beyond.
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Project report, 20 pages
Promoting women’s influence in their food systems: women's influence within food systems outcomes in the Sustainable Diets for All programme
This paper presents a collection of cases where, with support from the Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) programme, women demonstrated enhanced advocacy capacity. SD4All partners worked with them to develop and harness their individual and collective capacities, and channel them towards the change they wanted to see.
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Project report, 56 pages
Biodiversity mainstreaming: a review of current theory and practice
This report seeks to explore the current status of mainstreaming biodiversity into production sectors — in theory and in practice. It first explores a number of key concepts of biodiversity mainstreaming. Then a review of the literature reveals that while the literature on mainstreaming continues to evolve and improve, its development is hampered by an inconsistent use of terminology and approaches. The report concludes that an empirical framework is needed, as well as more and better ‘stories’ that will allow the narrative will change.
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