natural resources
This briefing examines the origins of the neoliberal economic paradigm and carbon "offset culture" of the G8 nations and other power blocs in the context of climate change, and the way it is being enthusiastically applied as a panacea in other areas of environmental policy as well. It argues that the "win-win" rhetoric pervading the climate discourse is an attempt to...
A great proportion of the world’s poor are vulnerable to the degradation of natural resources and ecosystems. The standard approach to the conservation of these resources (the establishment of “protected areas”) has in many cases actually exacerbated the poverty of local people by undermining traditional access and tenure rights. This paper seeks to highlight the importance...
This report presents the findings of a series of Global Witness investigations into illegal logging in the Aural Wildlife Sanctuary in southwestern Cambodia in 2004. It gives an overview of the industry structure as well as the key players.
Its main findings include:
- in Aural all the public institutions responsible for protecting the forest are...
IFPRI was founded in 1975 to identify and analyse policies for sustainably meeting the food needs of the developing world. Research at IFPRI concentrates on achieving economic growth and poverty alleviation in low-income countries, improving the well-being of poor people and sustainably managing the natural resource base that supports agriculture.
The 2020 Vision for Food,...
Indigenous and traditional peoples are among those most at risk from climate change. This document looks in detail at the potential impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities and cultures and their associated ecosystems, and seeks to develop effective and culturally appropriate adaptation and mitigation measures.
The authors note that many indigenous and traditional people have...
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) framework, a programme for regional development by the Asian Development Bank, has brought about fast paced economic growth. However, poor people's livelihoods, culture and environment have been seriously compromised:
- many of the region's ethnic minorities have suffered loss of control over their...
This book brings together briefs and articles generated by the 2020 Vision initiative that remain highly relevant to the ongoing dialog and debate and, given the nature of the topics addressed, are likely to remain so for some time to come.
The International Food Policy Research Institute has always held fast to the goal of generating policy information that will enable the world...
Each day our world witnesses 800 million people go hungry and about 170 million children under 5 years of age suffer from malnourishment. This situation is a human tragedy on a vast scale, made even worse because it is avoidable. What would the world look like if the commitment to food security for all, so often articulated at international meetings, were real? The 2020 Vision of the...
Developing Asia as a whole has taken remarkable strides since the food crises of the 1960s. Improvements in food security, poverty reduction and per capita income initiated by the Green Revolution have been substantial and lasting. Per capita gross domestic product increased by 190 percent between 1970 and 1995 and calories per person per day by more than 20 percent. In 1975, one out of every...
This report provides a snapshot of both the successes achieved and challenges faced in managing environmental data and information in Uganda, providing some relevant recommendations. The report firstly states that the data collection and information management infrastructure in the country is still very weak. It also notes that networking and coordination mechanisms between data producers and...
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