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Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
… design of resilient agri-food systems. Such systems are generally based on circular economy models that involve recycling, reuse and … of marginalised women working with the programme created a community grain fund to distribute locally-grown, drought-tolerant … at the ecological basis of food and agriculture, the social and environmental costs of modern food systems, and the policy reversals …
Project, 14 August 2013
Green economy – learning from the Caribbean
… mean ‘high-carbon’ landscapes, sustaining livelihoods and industries based on wise use of biodiversity and ecosystems? Can it foster the … very problems that this paradigm creates: poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation. But serious reflection on UNEP’s Green … Institute . An eclectic mix of government ministers, academics, community leaders and business associations rightly kept the few …
Insight, 04 March 2011
Business models for sustainable development
… for sustainable development aim to deliver economic, social and environmental benefits – the three pillars of sustainable development – … become flashpoints for conflict and a focus for climate concerns, community forestry could be coming into its own. Collective ownership … modern energy services in the Niger Delta via small-scale community-based initiatives. The immediate objective is to catalyse the …
Article, 10 May 2010
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Raising the Stakes: Impacts of privatisation, certification and partnerships in South African forestry
… together with government, have dominated a commercial forestry sector based on plantations. Today, world market trends are causing companies … have been quite good for company business, and have also improved community livelihood assets, but have not yet pulled poor people out of … not miraculously combine to produce a balance of economic efficiency, environmental sustainability and social empowerment. For such a balance …
Publication, 01 January 2001
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Service Provision in Cities
Publication, 01 January 1994
A new agenda for consumption
… field of 'sustainable consumption' tend to be (a) largely European-based and European-focused and (b) emphatic on environmental issues with much less attention to the environmental justice and social equity dimensions of these arguments. …
Project, 02 October 2008
Three gorillas sit in grass in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
Uganda project to strengthen policies that link poverty and conservation
… is innovative as it intends to promote greater understanding of how community conservation efforts can improve people’s lives, and also aims … connects research and policymaking. It can promote change that is based on evidence of what really works. Doing research is only part of … people in the right ways to encourage changes that support social and environmental goals." The new report is the result of a planning meeting …
News, 09 October 2012
Mecati Forest, Mozambique: a group of charcoal producers clear trees and prepare to make charcoal. Each year more than eight million bags of charcoal are produced by Mozambique's informal sector (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
The informal economy and sustainable development
… unfair competition, low productivity, human rights abuses and environmental degradation; while others associate it with … and urban, from natural resource extraction, to trading, to waste management. We look across informal and artisanal sectors and how they … through people's own actions? In Africa, we are carrying out field-based research together with partners in order to understand the value …
Project, 20 January 2016
A tree leans over a small stream in a forest in Mozambique.
16 tools to help small businesses sustain forests, limit climate change and cut poverty
… 16 modules of step-by-step guidance, followed by practical tips based on the personal experiences of the authors. It includes 60 case … nuts and fruit. • In Nepal, it was used for product development. Community forest users groups were linked to community owned enterprises … secure resource rights in ways that can reduce poverty, encourage environmental accountability and help to tackle climate change.” …
News, 01 May 2012
Lebanon is hosting one million Syrian refugees, and around half of them are children. Most families live in makeshift shelters; some rent half-built apartments, sharing with two or three families (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities
… when local organisations (including local authorities, NGOs and community-based organisations) play a key role in facilitating this. At the ICLEI … included resettling affected households. Gerald Paragas, an urban and environmental planner involved in the city's recovery highlighted that …
Insight, 11 May 2017