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Power in Global Value Chains: Implications for employment and livelihoods in the cashew nut industry in India
… as well as to capture most of the revenue generated along the chain. Our survey of the women workers who process the cashew nuts shows clearly that such work, while essential for survival, does not provide enough income to …
Publication, 01 March 2006
A soup stall in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Many of the urban poor rely on frequent food purchases, often cooked food prepared by street vendors (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How the urban poor define and measure food insecurity
… to define their experiences of food insecurity.  We will continue our partnership with ACHR, exploring how disenfranchised urban …
Project, 14 March 2018
Outside of a milk bar
MoreMilk – reviewing policy options for the informal dairy trade
… may come as a surprise to those of us who depend on supermarkets for our daily food needs, but in developing countries supermarkets are for a … seems to be the only tool available, and when it doesn’t work – and it mostly doesn’t – those who participate in informal markets …
Project, 16 April 2019
Low-cost solar lanterns enable a boy to study at home in the small village of Shidhulai in the Natore District of northwestern Bangladesh (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Universal energy access: combining public and private sector efforts
… funds to serve the poor , and to support small-scale enterprise? Our report explores some established and emerging donor-led programmes … to target public funds to meet the needs of the most vulnerable. To work out who is more effective in what circumstances, governments, … what do donors, governments and businesses still need to know? Our study identified several knowledge gaps: Market analysis and …
Insight, 30 September 2014
More people, more trees
… expert, Ced Hesse. We produced a video and booklet — Looking after our land — under the direction of Will Critchley from the Free … go back to look at two of the six original sites from Looking after our land — one in Machakos District, Kenya and the other on the central … range of other activities around, for example, microfinance and craft work. Both sites offer ideas for ways to make rural livelihoods more …
Insight, 29 October 2010
These cars in downtown Lanzhou are part of efforts to reduce CO2 emissions in China. But electric cars require nearly 10kg of cobalt per vehicle, which may encourage increased deep-sea mining (Photo: Tim Zachernuk, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Mining in the deep-sea bed: are we ready?
… and companies promote deep-sea mining as essential for sustaining our highly digitalised society and the booming market of green … is flexible enough to allow for standards to be adjusted in light of our evolving understanding of this precious ecosystem. …
Insight, 12 November 2018
A man leads a herd of camels with the sun setting behind them.
What’s in a narrative? In policy, everything or nothing
… pastoralism in Kenya, India and China, three countries where policies work against the mobility that herding communities use to take advantage … that they will have a critical role to play – if allowed to – as our climate changes. With funding from the Ford Foundation, we had … policy narratives in 1991, and it was his work that we drew on in our conversation. According to Roe, such narratives are strategic …
Insight, 28 September 2012
A Bolivian woman stallholder sells potatoes and other vegetables. Bolivian diets are changing, moving away from traditional foods and towards processed foods (Photo: Mauricio Panozo, Lucano Photography)
The Bolivian diet: women’s voices and choices
… and looking at how to make them more sustainable is a part of the work of the Sustainable diets for all programme being implemented by … raise animals on the family ranch. “Everything was natural back then. Our grandparents and parents did not use chemicals or pesticides; they … people leave their communities to go the cities; little by little our ancient recipes and the natural way of producing food are lost,” she …
News, 08 March 2019
An orange sky
How can we avoid another ‘lost decade’ in the climate fight?
Insight, 06 January 2020
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South Africa: a case for Biomass?
… its poor – are to have secure energy access. Find out more about our work on improving people's access to sustainable energy. …
Publication, 01 December 2014