​After five years of conflict in Syria, people need more than short term emergency aid. This event examines if longer-term development is possible in a place like Syria.

This report explains what ‘organisational development’ is and provides good practice examples, frameworks and recommendations for getting started.

Today’s data landscape is defined by inequality between countries, people and issues – with the poorest, most marginalised people under-represented in official data.

This report addresses how politics matter for innovations. How politically smart approaches can help deliver access to services.

​After five years of conflict in Syria, people need more than short term emergency aid. This event examines if longer-term development is possible in a place like Syria.

It’s the International Day of Forests on 21 March – a day to raise awareness of the importance of forests and trees to all life on earth. This year the theme of the day is forests and water. Food security depends on water security – and water security depends on forests. In fact, forested watersheds and wetlands supply 75% of the world’s accessible fresh water for domestic, agricultural, industrial and ecological needs. Live celebrations of the day are taking place around the globe, and FAO’s own International Day of Forests event will be webcast from Rome on 21 March (12:00-13:00 GMT+1) at http://www.fao.org/webcast. For more information, including a 60-second animated video and an interactive quiz, visit the International Day of Forests website.

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Diversion of Forest Land, 15/03/2016. Forest land in urban areas are diverted for development works for providing essential services such as Schools, Drinking water supply,

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Forest Management, 15/03/2016. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and climate Change is implementing the Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) titled “Intensification of Forest

Environmental activists staged a protest at the old deer park, in front of Kadri Park, here on Monday against felling trees for the on-going musical fountain project and associated works being taken at

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Villages in Forest Areas, 15/03/2016. The villages in forest areas may include forest villages, old habitations, unsurveyed villages and other villages in the forests, whether

​From March 14 to 15, 2016, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), in partnership with the Government of Rwanda, will convene the first African Transformation Forum (ATF) in Kigali, Rwanda. ODI's Supporting Economic Transformation Programme is collaborating with ACET on background papers and sponsoring the event.

In her home in the remote Hunza valley, Gul Mehreen smiles as she places a tea kettle on the electric stove in her immaculate kitchen. As she makes tea for guests, the farmer jokes about "how amazingly

SANTIAGO – A total of 19 forest fires continue to burn in five Chilean regions, according a statement released Sunday by the National Emergency Office, or Onemi. According to figures compiled by the

CHINA'S court system concluded 19,000 criminal cases involving environmental pollution and undermining resources in 2015, up 18.8 percent year on year, a work report of the Supreme People's Court (SPC)

This research revealed significant trade-offs among energy security, food security and ecosystem capacity in the Philippines, India and China. The preferred role of bioenergy for sustainable development reflects the social and economic concerns in the respective Asian countries, e.g. energy security and environmental condition in China, food security in India, and ecosystem degradation in the Philippines. Thus, policy should carefully weigh the impacts of bioenergy development on sustainability issues that are closely interlinked in an energy-food-ecosystem nexus.

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This paper analyses how various preferential trading arrangements deal with agriculture liberalization and examines a few case studies highlighting the provisions on agriculture. It assesses the effect of preferential trade agreements on agriculture trade flows in the case of ASEAN. It finds that while the tariff reduction on all goods, including agriculture, in ASEAN provides a marked advantage from the MFN tariff rates, intra-ASEAN agriculture trade have not been all that significant. Most of the growth in the intra-ASEAN trade had come from trade in industry; and if total agriculture trade had expanded, much of it was due to trade outside the region.

The paper argues that AFTA, by original design, had not really been made to boost intraregional agriculture trade, but rather to facilitate the interindustry trade arising out of the vertically integrated network of manufacturing transnational corporations.

This infographic presents an overview of data collected on out-of-school young people in Uganda, aged between 15-24 years.

This infographic presents an overview of data collected on out-of-school young people in Ghana, aged between 15-24 years.

Hundreds of Bangladeshis began a four-day march on Thursday from the capital to the Sundarbans in a last-ditch protest against plans to build a coal-fired power plant near the World Heritage-listed forest.

NASHIK: A private agency hired by the civic body for its botanical garden project in Pandavleni came under the scanner of the green activists on Thursday for cutting 46 trees at the location without prior