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A community-based green energy project: Sinteyo and the women's group with solar panels at the greenhouse in Isiolo, Kenya (Photo: Annie Bungeroth/CAFOD)
Sharing the load: who pays for energy access?
… United Nations Sustainable Energy For All Forum – and will be the focus of a session organised by CAFOD , CIDSE and IIED at the European … capital for off-grid electrification. So finance will be a hot topic. Our panel debate (4 June) will root these discussions in real-world … money needed? Where is private money needed? What else needs to change to make finance Scaling up investment in off-grid energy …
Insight, 29 May 2015
A farmer near Bagré dam in Burkina Faso dries paddy rice (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Seven papers unpick debates on African agriculture and rural development
… non-farm economy? and What about agroecology and food sovereignty? Our new papers shed light on such questions. They aim to improve the … in Africa in the context of both long-standing and new drivers of change, so as to stimulate debate and research, and contribute to … papers in this series, which we will publish later this year, will focus on agricultural innovation systems, the social relations of …
Insight, 15 October 2014
Nigerian subsidy crisis shows the road to a green economy isn’t smooth
… and one that a range of non-governmental organisations, including our coalition partner International Institute for Sustainable … subsidy reform featured prominently in government submissions ( see our analysis ) to the Rio+20 process and has made it into the first … And, just as we’ve seen with the riots in Nigeria, the road to change is not smooth – especially if citizens doubt the government is …
Insight, 17 January 2012
The world's top bankers discussed international financial systems at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Photo: swiss-image.ch/Remy Steinegger, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
It's time for the Davos super-rich to pay their fair share
… World Economic Forum  taking place in Davos this week, and was the focus of an Oxfam and Oxford University debate held in advance. The … poor was likely to widen further unless concrete steps were taken to change the current trajectory. Oxfam's latest report , for example, … income. Thus, the votes of the wealthy weigh far more heavily in our democratic process than those with less cash. A wide variety of tax …
Insight, 22 January 2015
Kazakhstan's capital Astana will host the EXPO trade fair in 2017. Credit: Ken & Nyetta/Flicker (Creative Commons)
Kazakhstan: Green economy of the future?
… long-term investments and a range of other enabling conditions. Our report is an effort to ask difficult questions and start discussing … Ministry of Environment organised in 2011. Our recommendations Focus the green economy policy concept on specific sectors such as … sector, as well as development of energy, water and climate change policies. ( [email protected] ) …
Insight, 30 January 2014
UNESCO considers Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area to be of global importance for biodiversity conservation, but it faces significant development pressure from tourism (Photo: Justin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mainstreaming nature and biodiversity into wider planning and policy
… can help poor people adapt to, and mitigate the effects of, climate change. For example, preserving trees and maintaining biodiversity can … be integrated into conservation policy and planning – this is the focus of our work on conservation, communities and equity . To better integrate …
Article, 16 August 2013
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 18 Mixing and matching methodologies in Redd Barna Uganda
… CBOs, and build their development. capacity to act as the link. All our activities and methodologies focus on enhancing the RBU's approach to PRA development, survival, …
Publication, 01 January 1997
Boat surrounded by vegetation growing in the water near the river port of Vallemi.
Will Payments for Watershed Services fuel the protection of ecosystem services?
… For PWS to be effective, payments or rewards must translate into a change in the farmer’s behaviour that will, ultimately, affect the … achieve environmental success along with lessons accumulated since our first review in 2002 . In practice, monitoring PWS tends to fall in … a change in the level of the ecosystem services? While ideally the focus should be on both, more often than not monitoring only looks at …
Insight, 21 June 2013
Fishing boats return to a beach on the Bay of Bengal.
New Commission for oceans in crisis
… roughly half the oxygen we breathe, recycle nutrients and regulate our climate — services we too often fail to value . They cover more than … and environmental issues, including deep sea fishing and the climate change implications of ocean acidification, have emerged since then, … involve fisheries, and many of those are in developing countries. A focus on four issues The new Commission is a collaboration between the …
Insight, 14 February 2013
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
… indictment of sustainability wonks and advocacy organisations that our leaders still don’t ‘get’ the basic significance of sustainable … had a blunt awakening when they were sidelined in the climate change negotiations by a stitch-up between the US, China and India. This … and China focused on the potential impact that a greater focus on environmental wellbeing could have on job creation. On the flip …
Insight, 03 July 2012