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Two of the 20 questions in last year's environment and development quiz. After learning lots of lessons, we have produced another one this year... (Image: IIED)
A quiz-ical look at Christmas content
Insight, 24 December 2015
A man points his finger at someone in a meeting room at a debate at a meeting on the sustainable development of the Amazon at Rio+20.
Five things we’ve learnt from Rio+20
… were suspicious and confused by the agenda which emerged from the UN General Assembly. This was particularly evident in the poorly-defined ‘ … with the unsustainable current economic model which the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon called an environmental "global suicide pact," and …
Insight, 03 July 2012
Are small-scale farmers there to feed themselves and large-scale farmers there to feed the world? Credit: Flickr/Peter Casier
Can small-scale farmers feed the world?
… obstacles in making this transition, including breaking through the general belief among policymakers that it’s all about producing more …
Insight, 15 March 2011
Tick tock — it’s the year of forests
Insight, 22 December 2010
A pot with bubbling food sits cooking on an open fire.
Sustainable energy: can a new initiative succeed where Rio+20 failed?
… business benefiting from increased energy efficiency and thousands of jobs being created in a green energy sector. But the UN text agreed at … forward Sustainable Energy For All (SE4ALL) — led by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and endorsed by more than 50 countries — which is an …
Insight, 25 June 2012
A crocodile and three ducks
Q&A: Fulufhelo Mukhadi on mainstreaming biodiversity in South Africa
Article, 18 November 2014
A person's baby finger is covered in ink so they can vote during the 2013 Presidential elections.
Mali election: A Presidential run off
… in third place. A former mining official, Dembélé was Mali's Director-General of Geology and Mines from 2005 to 2010. Dembélé’s party, … army back to barracks, and building a sustainable economy that offers jobs and prospects for all Malians? Amadou & Mariam sing “Dimanche a …
Insight, 06 August 2013
A man stands behind an electricity generator
Energy literacy for all? Cracking the very hard 'soft side' of energy development
… people? Do we know what works? A recent report from Norway's Auditor-General to the parliament on Norway's clean energy aid spending in …
Insight, 22 September 2014
Green shoots and REDD herrings
… since 2002 in countries like Cameroon, Tanzania and India, but in general rights are commonly in the wrong hands and capabilities are … the poor - but the evidence is not strong, while commercial forestry jobs and income have at best avoided exacerbating poverty. …
Insight, 15 October 2009
Pakistan: floods and after
… are seriously considering staying on in Karachi and looking for jobs. Small farmers would like to go back but think that by leaving a … of experience working on urban planning and development issues in general, and in Asia and Pakistan in particular. Hasan has been involved …
Insight, 01 September 2010