Climate Change

Using Small-Scale Adaptation Actions to Address the Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Going beyond Food Aid and Cash Transfers

A paper by Richard Munang and Johnson N. Nkem about the lessons learned from the UN-led project in Uganda, which demonstrate the value of small scale innovative interventions, carried out using democratic approaches to help support adaptation to climate change whilst progressing to achieve food security and chart a new Path to eliminate hunger.
The paper is available online.

Workshop for Establishing the Indigenous Peoples Forum at IFAD

On 17-18 February 2011 a two-day workshop was organized in IFAD with the support of the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA).
Indigenous peoples have repeatedly asked for a more systematic dialogue with United Nations agencies. In response to this request, IFAD has taken a series of initiatives in the past seven years and accumulated [...]

Resilience to Climate Change: the Community-Based Adaptation Project in Bolivia

The impacts of climate change will significantly impact the livelihoods of rural poor communities in Bolivia. 
Increasing temperatures, increasingly variable precipitation, melting glaciers and consequently altered hydrology have significant impacts on the ecosystems upon which people rely for agriculture, water, and other vital goods and services.
Biodiversity is also threatened, land degradation pressures increase, and progress toward the Millennium [...]

Strengthening What Works – Recognising and supporting the conservation achievements of indigenous peoples and local communities

[ October 21, 2010; 11:15 am to 2:45 pm. ] CBD COP 10 Side-Event -Thursday, 21 October 2010

1.15pm to 2.45pm – Room 234C Bldg 2 – 3rd Floor, Nagoya – Japan

Territories and sites conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs) are a phenomenon of global significance for the earth’s biodiversity, livelihood security, cultural diversity, and meeting a host of other human development objectives. Properly [...]

ICCAs in Coastal and Marine Environments – learning from long-standing and new examples throughout the world

[ October 22, 2010; 11:15 am to 12:45 pm. 11:15 am to 12:45 pm. ] CBD COP 10 Side-Event – Friday, 22 October 2010

1.15pm to 2.45pm – Room 211B – Bldg 2, 1st Floor, Ngoya – Japan

ICCA – sites and landscapes/seascapes voluntarily conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities – are a phenomenon of global significance in both terrestrial and marine and coastal environments. This event will feature tools and [...]