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Carbon accounting under the Kyoto protocol treats different land uses in a fragmented way. As more negotiators and observers are calling for integrated approaches, Brazil has produced a groundbreaking new tool for its agricultural sector. Originally published on the WRI blog, by Stephen Russel and Sarah Parsons. Brazil’s farms are major, global producers of beef, […]

The necessary public and private investment to finance a “green economy” in Southeast Asia has so far been slow to arrive, experts said at a recent regional conference, urging a range of different approaches to help accelerate it. Mobilizing financial resources to stimulate investments in smallholder agriculture and sustainable land use — ranging from REDD+ […]

The Issue: Global environmental and social trends like climate change, ecosystem degradation or unemployment and poverty in rural areas are affecting stakeholders at all levels. Farmers and foresters in developing countries often lack access to financial and other inputs while investors are deterred from the many risks that seem to accompany investments in rural areas. […]

This blog story by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan was originally posted on The Guardian’s Global Development Professionals Network.Read more about food security and development on IFPRI’s blog. With the deadline for achieving the millennium development goals less than two years away, international attention is shifting toward forming sustainable development goals for the post-2015 agenda. […]

The Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons Council opens the call to members of the International Association for the Study of the Commons in good standing or of one of the Institutional Supporters of the Award to nominate outstanding scholars or practitioners in those fields to receive the Elinor Ostrom Award on […]

Should we build more dams? – In reality things are not quite so black-and-white, because as long as we want to continue using energy, consuming food, and having water to wash, drink and use for agriculture, we will have to make difficult decisions about how we access, allocate and use water. This is particularly the […]