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More than 90 per cent of Malawians rely on rain-fed subsistence farming to survive. Increasingly variable weather patterns are reducing crop yields and eroding food security (Photo: ILRI/Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: We must ensure Paris delivers on finance
Article, 24 November 2015
The United Nations headquarters in New York City (Photo: Wally Goetz, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The right to sustainable development: what the post-2015 agenda declaration should say – but won't
Insight, 18 February 2015
A large group of people sit under a tree and talk.
We need more integrity between the treatment of forests at home and abroad
… fuel and fibre production. They also understand the need to invest in building the capacity of smallholder producer organisations both in the … sure that what we want to see ‘out there’ is also what we invest in back home – and in that regard, the integrity of the Swedish approach …
Insight, 02 October 2012
Oxen plough a field in Ethiopia.
African land deals: Is a policy shift underway?
… governments have made public offers of land to prospective investors. Back in 2009, the Ethiopian government was reported to have earmarked …
Insight, 15 July 2013
A man in Uganda stands by a digger sitting next to a dirt road.
US Supreme Court dims a light in corporate accountability
… hear complaints involving natural resource investments (such as the building of dams or agricultural plantations) made by Thai companies …
Insight, 01 May 2013
The Roșia Poieni copper mine in Romania, one of the largest copper reserves in Europe (Photo: Cristian Bortes via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Investor-state arbitration: Lessons from civil society advocacy
… useful outside the arbitral proceeding, as a catalyst for coalition building, advocacy and national debate. Orellana mentioned a recent …
Insight, 19 May 2014
Peñas Blancas Reservoir in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica: Growing money on trees
… experiences of putting the Green Economy model into practice. “Back in Rio in 1992 we all did the talk, but it has been harder to do … to distribute the benefits. After much internal debate and capacity building, the association signed some contracts, and a solid internal …
Insight, 26 June 2012
Evelyne Flora Latabu shaking a bowl of grains.
The Ugandan diet: food voices and choices
… dodo (amaranth greens) and okra to what I am selling. I would then go back to the village and utilise the land there to grow more because here …
Insight, 24 October 2019
Agricultural development: business as usual is not an option
… intra-community trade. Tracing the history of food production back to colonial times, he described how local sources of nutrition have …
Insight, 05 April 2012
Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change: What role for Official Development Assistance?
Article, 14 November 2008