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A pot with bubbling food sits cooking on an open fire.
Sustainable energy: can a new initiative succeed where Rio+20 failed?
… is important. There is something to be said for demonstrating under one banner initiatives working to increase energy access and … interest, investment and knowledge-sharing. But initiatives coming under the SE4ALL banner must also showcase new ways of working and … and move towards truly multi-stakeholder energy delivery models. Under certain market conditions, the private sector can deliver to the …
Insight, 25 June 2012
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Poverty, pastoralism and policy in Ngorongoro: Lessons learned from the Ereto I Ngorongoro Pastoralist Project with implications for pastoral development and the policy debate
… milk, recent years have seen pastoralist production systems operating under growing pressure and pastoralist communities becoming increasingly …
Publication, 01 May 2008
Woman waters seedlings
Delivering high-quality, predictable and accessible climate finance for least developed countries
Insight, 03 November 2021
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Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change: A critique of the UNFCCC estimates
… Framework Convention on Climate Change are likely to be substantial under-estimates. Professor Martin Parry and his co-authors look at the …
Publication, 01 August 2009
An area of forest in Tanzania, where REDD+ activities have included the support of community land use planning and the provision of alternative livelihoods (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Tackling deforestation as part of climate action
Insight, 17 December 2015
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Source Book on Community-Based Conservation in South Asia: People, policies and publications
Publication, 01 January 2000
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Rural District Planning in South Africa: A case study
… for analysis, focusing on the assets of people, vulnerabilities under which they live and the institutional structures and processes …
Publication, 01 January 2000
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Innovative Practice China: Collective action by small-farm households in big markets- Ruoheng farmer watermelon cooperative
… on it. As a country with a large agricultural population and under-development in rural areas, China has very serious agricultural …
Publication, 01 March 2008
Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)
… the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people living under the poverty line in arid and semi-arid land (ASAL) areas. While …
Project, 27 July 2018
Man and woman cut a tree into planks.
United in a call for higher ambition on the global biodiversity agenda
… . The purpose of the dialogues? To explore some of the issues under consideration in the emerging post-2020 Global Biodiversity …
Insight, 18 September 2020