A new report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) highlight how people in Africa could react against large scale land deals.
Science & Policy
Extractive industries threaten forests
A new report by the Rights and Resources Initiative documents and analyzes the impacts of the extractive industries on the collective land and forest rights of people and communities in South America.
Women are critical resources for food security
A new publication by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) explores the women role in food production, which are responsible for 60 to 80 per cent of the food in most developing countries.
EU guide helps companies to go green
A new guide by the Eco-Innovation Observatory (EIO) introduces eco-innovation and the opportunities it offers to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Aviation bets on potentially harmful biofuels
A new report by the Oakland Institute investigate the use of biofuels from aviation sector, presenting and investigating in particular the Nestlé oil palm case, the Lufthansa jatropha and the SkyNRG recycled cooking oil.
More money from cutting than from saving forests
A new study by the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo (CICERO) investigates domestic and international drivers sustaining deforestation rates
Rules against land grabbing move slowly
A new publication by the All Africa assesses improvements, that African Countries reached, after the 2009 international conference on “Forest Tenure, Governance, and Enterprise”.
Fostering global-local water management
A new report by the Global Water Partnership (GWP) presents water cooperation case studies from Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America.
Climate change threatens coastal wetlands
A new publication by the World Bank (WB) warns: one-meter rise in sea levels from climate change could destroy over 60% of the developing world’s coastal wetlands currently at one meter or less elevation.
Producers and consumers pollution in the EU
A new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) describes methods for quantifying environmental pressures caused by European consumption patterns and economic production sectors.
