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The environmental crime crisis. threats to sustainable development from illegal exploitation and trade in wildlife and forest resources
GRID Arendal, 2014Given the alarming pace, level of sophistication, and globalized nature that illegal trade in wildlife has now notoriously achieved, UNEP initiated a Rapid Response Assessment to provide some of the latest data, analysis, and broadest insights into the phenomenon.DocumentAssessing local preferences for payment formats in REDD+ interventions: A case study of the Ongo Community Forest
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013The government of Uganda has over time been actively engaged in ensuring the sustainable utilisation of its forestry resources. This has been undertaken by different players including the national forestry sector, forest-neighbouring communities and private individuals owning forested land.DocumentViews and preferences for compensation under REDD+ in Tanzania: Kilosa pilot project case study
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013Since 2008, Tanzania has been working to create a national REDD+ strategy. Nine REDD pilot projects have been put in place in different areas of the country, with the main aim being to gain experience and learn more about what constitutes good practice for REDD+, in order to influence Tanzania’s national REDD strategy.DocumentHow to identify forest crime - Latin America
GRID Arendal, 2014The illegal trade and exploitation in flora, such as illegal logging, has been estimated to represent a value of 30–100 billion USD annually.DocumentHow to identify forest crime - Asia
GRID Arendal, 2014The illegal trade and exploitation in flora, such as illegal logging, has been estimated to represent a value of 30–100 billion USD annually.DocumentHow to identify forest crime - Africa
GRID Arendal, 2014The illegal trade and exploitation in flora, such as illegal logging, has been estimated to represent a value of 30–100 billion USD annually.DocumentClimate change, crop production and child under nutrition in Ethiopia; a longitudinal panel study
BMC Public Health, 2014Background: The amount and distribution of rainfall and temperature influences household food availability, thus increasing the risk of child under nutrition. However, few studies examined the local spatial variability and the impact of temperature and rainfall on child under nutrition at a smaller scale (resolution).DocumentChild undernutrition in Kenya: trend analyses from 1993 to 2008-09
BMC Medicine, 2014Background: Research on trends in child undernutrition in Kenya has been hindered by the challenges of changing criteria for classifying undernutrition, and an emphasis in the literature on international comparisons of countries’ situations. There has been little attention to within-country trend analyses.DocumentThe extractive industries transparency initiative: Impact, effectiveness, and where next for expanding natural resource governance?
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of initiatives to improve the governance of the extractives sector.DocumentFood securities and social conflict
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014Following rising food prices violent ‘food riots’ took place in about 40 countries around the globe in 2007-2008. And at the end of 2010 and the start of 2011, as protests erupted first in Tunisia and then in Algeria, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan and Egypt, the price of food was widely seen as a significant factor underlying unrest and the train of events of the Arab Spring.Pages