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Ed Holt Ethiopia has lost large swathes of its forest cover in recent decades, including areas cleared for coffee plantations. Ironically, Ethiopia — including Gura Ferda — is the only place in the world where coffee grows wild. The Gura Ferda forest in southwest Ethiopia is a beautiful example

Business , Cities , Climate , Data & Reports , Disasters , Economy , Energy , Environment , Governance , Labour , Resources , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Transport , Water / 10/20/2022

Adapting China to extreme weather

Xia Zhijian Climate adaptation of industry and infrastructure is a matter of national concern after extreme weather battered China’s manufacturing centres this summer Vast swathes of China suffered from unusual weather this summer. Floods, droughts, power shortages, wildfires, heatwaves and heatst

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Data & Reports , Economy , Environment , Forests , Gender , Governance , Human Rights , Labour , Refugees , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 09/29/2022

A deadly decade for land and environmental activists – with a killing every two days

The report highlights that the control and use of land and territory is a central issue in countries where defenders are threatened. Since 2012, Global Witness has been gathering data on the killings of land and environmental defenders. In that time, a grim picture has come into focus – with evide

Climate , Education , Gender , Governance , Human Rights , Labour , Opinions , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/18/2022

This Far…Go Further: Women and the Carbon Market!

Tasneem Balasinorwala and Diya Deb As we make our way one step at a time to make carbon markets and carbon projects the domain of women in the local communities, we looked at the Gold Standard Guidelines on gender equality requirements. What is Gold Standard: The Gold Standard has been&

Aid , Business , Economy , Education , Featured , Labour , Opinions , SDGs , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 07/01/2022

Social innovators spur growth — from moringa to mourning flowers

Radhika Mia Social entrepreneurs are transforming the lives of 722-million people worldwide, and in Sub-Saharan Africa alone in 2020 about 28-million to 41-million jobs were created by social enterprises Landmark research recently released by the British Council, called “State of social enterprise

Aid , Biodiversity , Business , Economy , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Labour , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 05/07/2022

New civil society initiative aims to ‘green’ China-Brazil agriculture trade

Yan Tian Baxter Chinese NGO GEI aims to equip food producing regions in Brazil with good practices to bring about broader changes in agricultural trade ince 2003, when China first became a net food importer, the gap between its imports and exports has continued to widen. By 2019, it had become

Aid , Business , Data & Reports , Governance , Labour , Sustainable Development / 03/24/2022

Power dynamics-global north givers and global south receivers

Tasneem Balasinorwala and Diya Deb Project funding decisions are primarily influenced by international commitments, national level commitments, donor country policies or development cooperation policies followed by stakeholder discussion deliberation and finally local needs. ‘We stopped

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Data & Reports , Economy , Environment , Food , Forests , Health , Human Rights , Labour , Refugees , Resources , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 03/01/2022

Mining companies seek to expand into Brazil’s indigenous territories

Lívia Machado Costa New report shows that companies from Brazil and abroad are sieging sites of interest, even where mineral extraction is prohibited he search for new mining areas is expanding into Brazil’s indigenous territories, amid rising mineral revenues and exports, as well as in

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Education , Environment , Forests , Labour , Resources , SDGs , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Water / 01/30/2022

Forget logging or hunting – two Assam villages in India embrace eco-tourism

Gurvinder Singh Giving up hunting and tree felling, two Assamese villages are conserving their forest habitat rather than let their natural resources erode. With their villages now on the eco-tourism map, they are embracing alternate livelihoods. Notun Leikol village in Assam is rich in natural beau

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Economy , Environment , Food , Health , Labour , Sustainable Development / 11/11/2021

WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies: Global Open Letter

To curb overfishing, biodiversity degradation and loss, and CO2 emissions, and to safeguard food and livelihoods, WTO members must prohibit fisheries subsidies that cause harm Sustainably managed wild fisheries support food and nutritional security, livelihoods, and cultures. Harmful fisheries sub

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