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Certified tea is among the commodities to have experience strong market growth.
Study reports double-digit growth in market performance of 'eco-labels'
… private sector plays in overall market growth of products certified under these initiatives. The average annual growth rate of certified …
News, 31 January 2014
Small-scale gold miners in Madagascar. Photo: Global Environment Facility
IIED shines a light on small-scale mining
News, 05 March 2013
The sun glints on smoke above Beijing. China is on course to see overall coal consumption peak this year (Photo; GadgetDan via Creative Commons)
If the coal industry really cared about helping poor countries, it would shut itself down
Insight, 17 November 2014
Making sure the poor benefit from ecosystem services
… health and wellbeing met with Stephen O’Brien, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development at a meeting of …
Insight, 08 February 2012
The Bairro Proletário do Dique in Rio de Janeiro was settled in the 1960s. The local infrastructure remains poor (Photo: Mariana Gil/EMBARQ Brasil, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Is more inclusive urbanisation essential to the 2030 Agenda?
… destructive politics of powerful groups forming urban coalitions under the banner of delivering economic growth.  Sociologists and …
Insight, 02 March 2016
With water shortages in Lebanon, many households have water storage facilities
Getting Lebanon’s water flowing: using new SDG data in an urban crisis
… the arrival of the Syrian refugees. Decades of civil unrest and under-investment, followed by episodes of conflict driven by regional …
Insight, 19 February 2018
The island state of Tuvalu is profoundly threatened by climate change. Tuvalu’s Prime Minister announced plans to switch to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2020. He was one of several LDC leaders to announce climate action. (Photo: Tomoaki Inaba)
Bold climate pledges from the Least Developed Countries
Insight, 28 September 2014
More than 300,000 marched in New York to call for action on climate change (Photo: John Minchillo)
People power applies climate pressure
Insight, 23 September 2014
People spread cocoa beans on a drying table in Ghana.
New business models can spell success for African farmers
… gender: gender productivity and sustainable sourcing strategies Under what conditions are value chains effective tools for pro-poor …
News, 19 November 2012
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Policies for Agricultural Sustainability in Northern Thailand
… use and agricultural production. At present the areas are considered under-utilised due to mismanagement of land resources in the early …
Publication, 01 January 2001