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Boys herd family cows in Wakesi, Kenya while dark grey storm clouds gather behind.
Looking beyond land to support rural youth
… value chain while they wait to inherit land. For example, by building, and renting out, storage facilities. These strategies have …
Insight, 30 May 2012
More than 300,000 marched in New York to call for action on climate change (Photo: John Minchillo)
People power applies climate pressure
… 22 states, provinces and cities, as well as more than 1,000 firms now back a price on carbon. Together these cover 54 per cent of global …
Insight, 23 September 2014
New Melones Lake, California, which is facing one of the most severe droughts on record with a state of emergency declared in January (Photo: Ben Amstutz, Flickr, via Creative Commons)
2016 – when global meets local in climate action
Insight, 04 January 2016
We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
… director, Andrew Norton, wrote our most read blog of 2017. Looking back at the political developments of 2016, Norton asked whether the …
Article, 22 December 2017
Food security in 2050: how can we make it fairer and more sustainable?
… minimising soil disturbance, and bringing nitrogen-fixing crops back into farming cycles. At the same time, we must protect forests and … as well as agronomy and soil-water management, we must start now, building bridges between farmers and research systems. The Foresight …
Insight, 03 February 2011
A young woman sits working at a sewing machine in a corner of a room.
Stitching with determination: stories of women garment workers in Indore, India
Article, 07 June 2022
A wholesale fish market in Cox's Bazar on the Bay of Bengal. Fishing communities need access to finance and infrastructure such as clean water, refrigeration and transport (Photo: Aftab Uzzaman, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Untangling the net: what does 'leave no one behind' mean for fishers?
… to the introductory text, is to 'leave no one behind'. This links back to the Millennium Development Goals and the aim to 'get to zero … in society benefit from any policy intervention is crucial for building both national and international legitimacy and for delivering …
Insight, 11 July 2016
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Independent Research Forum (IRF): supporting change for a sustainable future
Project, 14 December 2018
Izabella Teixeira, Minister of Environment of Brazil, taken during the World Economic Forum on Latin America in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2011.
Influencing the outcomes at Rio+20
… money has been spent fighting battles we did not want rather than building the low carbon economy we need. The enormous shift in … before surveying the damage, recognising the danger then pulling back. But this is not sensible either for global finance or earthly …
Insight, 24 May 2012
Pakistan: floods and after
… For home construction and restoration, it is necessary that building materials are easily available and that their prices are kept … control. The profiteering and exploitation around the supply of building materials that was experienced in the aftermath of the 2005 … on in Karachi and looking for jobs. Small farmers would like to go back but think that by leaving a member in Karachi they will receive …
Insight, 01 September 2010