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Save the date for 2020 Development and Climate Days
News, 09 November 2020
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Pro-poor certification: Assessing the benefits of sustainability certification for small-scale farmers in Asia
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 March 2012
Supporting small-scale farmers: rights or markets?
… Food and agriculture … Sustainable markets …
Article, 09 March 2011
Supporting smallholders: markets, rights, or sovereignty?
… Food and agriculture … Sustainable markets …
Article, 09 March 2011
Provocation 3: Making markets work for the poor - contents and discontents
… Food and agriculture … Sustainable markets …
Article, 09 March 2011
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Towards food sovereignty: reclaiming autonomous food systems
… food sovereignty movement. This alternative framework for food and agriculture aims to guarantee and protect people’s space, ability and … Part one of the book, 'Another world is possible for food and agriculture', highlights the global importance of agriculture and food … food sovereignty', looks at the importance of local organisations for sustainable livelihoods and food systems. Specific examples highlight …
Project, 27 January 2010
Provocation 2: Rights-based versus market-based development
… Food and agriculture … Sustainable markets …
Article, 10 February 2011
Ships lay stranded in a dry reservoir in China.
China: can the ‘factory of the world’ clean up its act?
… an impact in other parts of the world. Brazil is facing increasing sustainable development challenges due to its growing trade with China, … traditional north-south flows, will be vital to make progress towards sustainable development. This was a subject Bill Vorley, a Principal … key to applying pressure on businesses to adopt more environmentally sustainable practises. And NGOs and research institutes have a vital …
Insight, 27 June 2012
Government officials and researchers discuss the future of hilsa management on 19 January (Photo: Essam Mohammed/IIED)
UK's Darwin Initiative funded project strives to reduce threats to hilsa fish
… The Department of Fisheries has made commendable efforts to ensure sustainable management of hilsa fishery in Bangladesh, compensating the … the Bangladesh fisheries sector it is vital that this industry has a sustainable future which supports the people involved and allows fish … healthy hilsa fishery. This should include a recovered fish stock, a sustainable compensation scheme and improved livelihoods for the …
News, 19 January 2015
A pot with bubbling food sits cooking on an open fire.
Sustainable energy: can a new initiative succeed where Rio+20 failed?
… people who don't currently have it. Energy for all Step forward Sustainable Energy For All (SE4ALL) — led by UN secretary-general Ban … 2014. In a Rio+20 briefing session Ban Ki-moon announced: “Achieving sustainable energy for all is not only possible, but necessary — it is … energy services, such as clean cooking and productive energy for agriculture and small business. Current large-scale public and private …
Insight, 25 June 2012