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Jakarta: migrants from rural villages sleeping in an area that they rent for Rp 1.000,- (10 cents Euro) per night per person. There can be more than 50 people living and sleeping in this area at one time (Photo: Henry Ismail, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Stopping rural people going to cities only makes poverty less visible, and stripping migrants of rights makes it worse
… levels of poverty.  Poor migrants in many cases must send money home to repay debt and to support their families, and this makes it …
Insight, 18 March 2015
Blue, rather than green, is the dominant colour of planet earth (Photo: Google licence)
Why do I see blue when everyone else sees green?
Insight, 01 October 2014
Heads of government will pledge action on climate change at the UN Climate Summit in New York on 23 September (Image: UN)
Leaders take note: There are two sides to the climate change coin
Insight, 18 September 2014
Mpugu Parish borders Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (top right). Photo: Andrew Kirkby
Maps reveal what motivates people to take resources from flagship national park
… them to make the effort? Bwindi is in south-west Uganda and is home to 400 mountain gorillas — about half of the world’s population. …
Insight, 09 October 2013
Food vendors give people living in Nairobi's informal settlements easy access to fresh food (Photo: Grace Githiri)
Nourishing livelihoods: the food vendors sustaining Nairobi's slums
… the two most commonly-sold items (see chart). Vending near home can offer big advantages to women since they enjoy lower childcare …
Insight, 15 January 2016
Hundreds of power-tillers from China lie unused in Ethiopia. They can be used to plow, power a water-pump, and generate electricity, but low sales were thought to be caused by a lack of technical information, showing how China's role in African agriculture must be researched (Photo: IFPRI-IMAGES, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Chinese engagement in African agriculture is not what it seems
… in training in China, and interviewing officials who had returned home to Ghana and Zimbabwe. While there have not been many immediate …
Insight, 06 April 2016
This barrio in Guatemala has no running water or sewers. The country receives abundant rainfall, but lacks infrastructure to deliver water to households (Photo: David Amsler, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can natural capital accounting increase water access?
Insight, 05 April 2016
Paying local communities for ecosystem services: The Chimpanzee Conservation Corridor
… This area forms part of the northern corridor for chimpanzees and is home to some of Uganda’s largest chimpanzee populations living outside …
Project, 22 June 2011
Cambodia's rural population is heavily reliant on small-scale rice production. The Clean Sugar Campaign campaigns against large-scale plantations that push smallholders off their land (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Holding actors in agricultural investment chains to account
… initiated court proceedings against the European buyer in its home country National CSOs filed a complaint with Bonsucro , the …
Insight, 22 October 2015
Solar-radiation management aims to reduce the amount of solar energy warming the planet by blocking the sun with tiny particles (Photo: Mike, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Geoengineering and development – what price on equity and justice in the coming climate culture wars?
… is roughly where the world currently is) seem substantial – driven home for many by the wave of extreme weather events the world …
Insight, 20 December 2017