How innovation is flourishing at the grassroots
SciDev.Net reporters across the developing world describe exciting initiatives aimed at supporting innovation in local communities and remote areas.

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SciDev.Net reporters across the developing world describe exciting initiatives aimed at supporting innovation in local communities and remote areas.
Efforts to protect precious marine biodiversity by combining science and local knowledge are difficult but can work, reports Naomi Antony.
The cities account for more than three quarters of emissions of CO2, are home to half the world population and will be 'highly visible' at Rio +20.
Source: SciDev.Net Conference Service
A project that aims to help communities adapt by providing localised climate data should be ready by next year.
Source: IRIN News
9 November 2011 | EN
The InfoClim project, which distributes climate data to local communities, has helped Senegalese farmers adapt to climate change. SciDev.Net investigates.
Climate change will affect the water security of developing countries. Lucinda Mileham explores their priorities as they struggle to cope.
All it takes is a roof, a gutter and a tank to lift the poor out of water drudgery. But is it that simple, ask Aisling Irwin and Aditya Ghosh?
Kenyan meteorologists are joining forces with traditional rainmakers to deliver communities weather forecasts as climate change takes hold.
Source: The Independent
5 March 2010 | EN
Getting the right technology into poor countries is crucial for fighting climate change but how should we go about it? T. V. Padma investigates.
Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.
Modelling how climate change might affect insect-borne disease is hugely complex — and increasingly controversial, explains Justine Davies.
Climate change is a reality in developing regions, who say the international community must not neglect better adaptation strategies.
4 September 2009 | EN
Yvo de Boer, the UN climate chief, speaks to SciDev.Net about getting clean technology into the developing world.
T.V. Padma looks at how and why greenhouse gas emissions from India are on the rise.
18 August 2006 | EN