Focus on Africa: Making South-South Cooperation on Agricultural development more inclusive and sustainable With Rio+20 only a week away, the theme of this Poverty in Focus resonates clearly with the broader discourse on sustainable development, in particular the expanded efforts to mainstream...

The Rio +20 meeting in 2012 was an opportunity for the global policy framework to review 20 years of action on Agenda 21 and what has been delivered and to whom. The ripple effects of the global economic crisis?i.e. the weakening of the insurance sector, lower demand for exports and reduced...

Meeting the global commitment to limit global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels will require collective, complementary and simultaneous action by nation states and multinational entities. This crisis, however, is additional to existing development challenges...

Despite notable advances in the ?climate change-development? discourse and the rapid evolution of the climate-finance architecture, many of the fundamentally politicised issues that shape the existing dilemma on how to confront global climate change have been avoided or delayed. A largely...

The recently released Rural Poverty Report 2011 (IFAD, 2010) notes that some 1.4 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty, struggling to survive on less than US$1.25 a day and that more than two-thirds reside in rural areas of developing countries. That climate variability and change...

The focus of the development policy discourse now seems firmly fixed on ?inclusiveness?; as both process and outcome. This is clear from the focus of the UN Secretary General?s Agenda for 2011, the discussions at Davos in January 2011 and the focus of the 2011 UNDP Human Development Report on...

O desenvolvimento humano nos Pequenos Estados Insulares em Desenvolvimento (PEID) vem sendo estável e alto, conforme já foi medido. O caribe, em média, tem níveis mais altos de Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano (IDH) do que o Pacífico: Barbados ficou classificado em 37o e São Cristóvão e...

This June sees world leaders and civil society convene for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). It will focus on reviewing progress in achieving the goals of the original 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (the 1992 Rio Earth Summit). A main issue at the heart of...