This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at
climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions …

Highlights•There is an intrinsic tension between efficiency (E) and resilience (R).•Greater
resilience often means less efficiency, and vice versa.•Infrastructure systems tend to align …

Critical scholarship on the intersection of development pathways and climate change
responses highlights the roles of power, agency, social difference, intersecting inequalities …

The debate about the relationship between adaptation to climate change and development
has been ongoing for over two decades. Adaptation is about risk reduction, the pursuit of …

One major challenge facing farmers and other end users of weather and climate information
(WCI) in Kenya is the linkage between their perceptions, needs, and engagements with …

This report is a follow up and deepening of the working paper,“Climate change interventions
and vulnerability reduction in developing countries: Challenges and leverage points for …

Key Messages• Gender and other social inequities (eg, racial, ethnic, age, income,
geographic location) compound vulnerability to climate change impacts (high confidence) …

This archive IDS Bulletin reflects on 50 years of research on pastoralism at IDS. Much has
changed, but there are also important continuities. The 'end of pastoralism'was proclaimed …

Indigenous knowledge refers to the understandings, skills and philosophies developed by
societies with long histories of interaction with their natural surroundings (UNESCO, 2018; …

Natural hazard-related disasters ('disasters'), violence, conflict, fragility and insecurity affect
developed and developing countries alike, though the impacts vary significantly depending …