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Men present findings on a large map at the front of a community meeting

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How can we incorporate local knowledge into climate planning and policy? …Maps!

A woman stands with her goats in a dryland area in Niger (Photo: Stephen Anderson)

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Introduction to Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity

A pastoral women in Ethiopia

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Beyond survival – rethinking safety nets for pastoralists in Ethiopia

Water is conserved at a devolved climate finance project site in Zanzibar

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Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning

Sheep grazing dry season pastures in Mopti, Mali (Photo: Near East Foundation)

Project

Decentralising Climate Funds in Mali and Senegal

A sunset in rural Mali: a new day is dawning towards securing the land rights of rural communities (Photo: Kurt Paterson, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Q&A: How a new law in Mali is securing villagers' rights to land

Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity

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Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)

Dlonguebougou, is a village of 1,500 people in the commune of N'Koumandougou, on the northern edge in central Mali (Image: Google Maps)

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Long-term change in the Malian Sahel: portrait of Dlonguebougou village

The growing economic centre of Merti town on the Ewaso Ng’iro river, arid lands of Kenya (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu)

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Drylands: volatile, vibrant and under-valued?

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Local institutions: resilient in the face of change?

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Résilience institutionnelle face au changement

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Conflit entre agriculteurs et éleveurs en Afrique : repenser le phénomène ?

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Farmer–herder conflict in Africa: re-thinking the phenomenon?

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Sécurisation du foncier pastoral en Afrique de l’Ouest : Des modèles divers et riches d’enseignements

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Going local: fast tracking climate finance to the most vulnerable

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Oxen plough teams bring bigger fields and easier farmwork (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)

Notes from the field – Dlonguebougou, Mali

Blog, Apr 2017

Although aid agencies provide emergency help in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, only long-term planning can deal with the wider environmental stresses (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)

Unblocking the cycle of water stress, crises and innovation in the Bekaa Valley

Project, Jan 2017

The University of Southampton made a series of large scale photos of the village ranging from 1952 to 2016. Toulmin met with villagers to discuss what the images might mean for the future (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)

Rainfall, grazing, families and land in Dlonguebougou

Blog, Nov 2016

A dust storm looms over the drylands of the Sahel (Photo: Marie Monimart/IIED)

How oceans dried out the Sahel

Blog, Oct 2016

A pastoralist dwelling in Niger. Rural communities have learned to exploit the variability of dryland environments (Photo: IIED)

The end of desertification?

Blog, Sep 2016

A pastoralist with camels in Niger. Pastoralists use resources flexibly and adapt to climate variability more easily than many other groups. State policies that favour settled agriculture are more of a challenge (Photo: Stephen Andersen/IIED)

Does climate change cause conflicts in the Sahel?

Blog, Sep 2016

A community discusses water and energy challenges in Alango, Kenya (Photo: Ibrahim Jarso, Resource Advocacy Program)

Participatory investment planning for environment, water and energy in the dryland of northern Kenya

Project, Aug 2016

The growing economic centre of Merti town on the Ewaso Ng’iro river, arid lands of Kenya (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu)

Drylands: volatile, vibrant and under-valued?

Project, Jul 2016

The new university in Ségou. Mali's capital city, Bamako, is the nation's political and economic power base – greater decentralisation will bring many benefits (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)

Four challenges facing Mali amid efforts to rebuild

Blog, Jun 2016

Divisional Adaptation Planning Committees (DAPCs) act as community focal points (Photo: Sam Greene/IIED)

Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation

Project, Nov 2015

Stunted crops in the Kaffrine region of Senegal are the result of a lack of rainfall, jeopardising farmers’ harvests (Photo: Daniella Van Leggelo-Padilla/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Local climate adaptation: bridging the funding gap

Blog, Jul 2015

IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)

The things that make me proud

Blog, Jun 2015