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Emma Blackmore is a researcher in the Sustainable Markets Group at IIED. She manages IIED’s Shaping Sustainable Markets initiative and has carried out research on how certification can benefit the poor, carbon emission labels, contract farming and integrating small-scale farmers into global value chains.
27 Jun 2012 |
Sustainable markets
Will China address the consequences of its growing consumption and production, or continue with business as usual?
19 Mar 2012 |
Sustainable markets
Recognition of the role of markets and the private sector in contributing to sustainable development has been growing strongly in recent years.
14 Nov 2011 |
Biodiversity, Food and agriculture
The humble potato is a great example of how Quechua communities in the Andes have maintained crop biodiversity.
15 Jun 2011 |
Climate change
Climate change negotiators are still meeting this week in Bonn to try and find a way forward on, amongst many other subjects, climate change mitigation, adaptation and finance. Sources of... ›
11 Jan 2011 |
Food and agriculture, Sustainable markets
Agriculture is just one of the sectors in which carbon labelling — the labelling of a product to show how much carbon (and other greenhouse gases) have been emitted during its ‘lifecycle... ›
07 Oct 2010 |
Food and agriculture
One interpretation of Lady Gaga’s recent outing in a dress made of raw meat is that it was a statement about our society’s ‘hypocritical attitude to meat’. Have some consumers become so... ›
26 Aug 2010 |
Economics
The recession may have quickened a move to a new aid architecture with the emergence of new players, new directions and new types of aid. Traditional donors from the G8 have failed to... ›
21 Jun 2010 |
Economics, Climate change
Back in January, Due South commented on one silver lining of the economic crisis – a fall in CO2 emissions. With a double-dip recession predicted by some, could this be a double windfall... ›
07 May 2010 |
Economics, Food and agriculture, Sustainable markets
Have we glimpsed real signs of economic recovery?
08 Apr 2010 |
Sustainable markets, Economics
In belt-tightening times, it’s not surprising that consumption often drops. The UK is a case in point. Happily, consumers there are wasting less too.
The Waste and Recycling Action... ›