Climate Change

Tried and tested: learning from farmers on adaptation to climate change

May 8th, 2013 | Featured, Publications

This IIED Gatekeeper paper draws lessons from the wealth of knowledge small-scale farmers and pastoralists have and use with an objective to inform adaptation planning efforts at all levels.

Call for Papers: Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

January 31st, 2013 | News

New Deadline for submissions of abstracts :: 30th April 2013

Contribute to the Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation -> A collaborative initiative of The International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP) and Springer.

The Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation focuses in one of the key aspects of climate change: adaptation and how to handle its impacts on physical, biotic and human systems, including social and normative scientific concerns, coupled with the tools, approaches and methods aimed at the management of these effects and impacts.

Land use, climate change adaptation and indigenous peoples

October 9th, 2012 | Featured, Publications

For indigenous peoples, resilience is rooted in traditional knowledge, as their capacity to adapt to environmental change is based first and foremost on in-depth understanding of the land. As climate change increasingly impacts indigenous landscapes, communities are responding and adapting in unique ways. …

Flows under stress: availability of plant genetic resources in times of climate and policy change

September 7th, 2012 | Featured, middle, Publications

A policy analysis of the issues around the flow of PGR within the CGIAR

The working paper presents the findings of a study of how plant genetic resources move into and out of the CGIAR, carried out for the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) program. The study reveals the invisible flows of material and identifies some of the blockages which are becoming more frequent and harder to get around.

Launch of Mesoamerican PGRFA and Climate Change Project

July 19th, 2012 | Featured, Projects

One of the new projects approved by the ITPGRFA’s Benefit Sharing Fund aims to contribute to the formulation of a participatory and science-based strategic Action Plan to strengthen the conservation of plant genetic resources and their enhanced use in adapting to climate change in Mesoamerica. The treasure of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture [...]