• What's On Your Plate?

    An illustrated video on the challenges of the dominant food system, and alternatives for creating healthy people and a healthy planet. Commissioned by the University of Vermont.  more[...]

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  • Sanitation campaign in Indian village starts with women and youth

    The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

    UNICEF correspondent Atul Kumar reports from Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, India, on a campaign that tackles defecation in the open.  more[...]

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  • Haiti: Wooden Soldiers for Sale

    In Haiti, craftsmen are sculpting wooden UN soldiers at the Brazilian Military base. Located opposite MINUSTAH Headquarters, the place has been turned into a market selling perfectly handcrafted blue helmet soldiers. The constant demand for these special items has helped talented Haitian craftsmen enjoy a bit of economic stability for the moment.  more[...]

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  • Conflict Minerals, Rebels and Child Soldiers in Congo

    Warlords, soldiers, and child laborers all toil over a mineral you've never even heard of. Coltan is a conflict mineral in nearly every cell phone, laptop, and electronic device. It's also tied to the deaths of over 5 million people in Congo since 1990.  more[...]

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  • Bangladesh: Climate Change Threatens Livelihood

    Climate change continues to threaten food security in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world, where rising sea levels and seasonal storms worry farmers. Those living along the country's southern coast fear for their crops and livelihoods. Now the Government of Bangladesh is working with IFAD, the International Fund for Agricultural Development to provide training to farmers with the aim of introducing new techniques to beat the crisis.  more[...]

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  • The world' s challenge - Feeding 9 billion people

    Dr. Marion Guillou, INRA (Instut national de la recherche agronomique)

    If a global population of 9 billion by 2050 is to be fed adequately, more food must be produced, and this in keeping with increasingly stringent standards of quality and with respect for the environment. Not to mention the land that must be set aside for the production of energy resources, industrial goods, carbon storage and the protection of biodiversity.  more[...]  login_required

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    Dr. Marion Guillou, INRA (Instut national de la recherche agronomique) 
     
  • Global Compact International Yearbook 2011

    Dr. Elmer Lenzen

    Over the last several years, the United Nations has become a trailblazer in promoting corporate responsibility. “In the 11 years since its launch, the United Nations Global Compact has been at the forefront of the UN’s effort to make the private sector a critical actor in advancing sustainability,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the 2011 edition of the Global Compact International Yearbook.  more[...]  login_required

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    Dr. Elmer Lenzen
     
  • Global Compact International Yearbook 2010

    Dr. Elmer Lenzen

    A profound retrospective of the first decade of the UN Global Compact, challenges in the light of the year of biodiversity, and instruments for an adequate Corporate Citizenship are some of the issues highlighted in the new 2010 edition of the “Global Compact International Yearbook”. Among this years prominent authors are Ban Ki-moon, Bill Clinton, Joschka Fischer and Achim Steiner. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said: “As the Global Compact enters its second decade, it is my hope that this Yearbook will be an inspiration to bring responsible business to true scale.” Formally presented during the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in New York, the yearbook is now for sale.  more[...]  login_required

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    Dr. Elmer Lenzen
     
  • On the Role of Human Development in the Arab Spring

    Prof. Randall Kuhn, University of Denver

    This essay traces the impact of human development on political change, focusing on the events of the Arab Spring. Over the past generation, most Arab States experienced rapid progress in human development outcomes, including declining child mortality, increasing schooling and increasing height of women. I posit that improvements in human development laid the foundation for mobilization against political regimes.  more[...]

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    Prof. Randall Kuhn, University of Denver 
     
  • Singapore’s growing Role in Asian Food Security

    Yang Razali Kassim, Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore’s approach to food security is set to undergo a fundamental rethink — from being a passive food-importer to a more active contributor to the regional and global food system. A mental map of a multi-pronged strategy, spearheaded by research and development, is emerging on Singapore’s food security front that could turn old limitations into new strengths. Certain realities clearly define food security planning: Singapore is not an agricultural country, has little land to grow its own food, and is almost totally dependent on food imports. As a food importer Singapore is perpetually subject to the vagaries of external forces when it comes to feeding its own people. This picture may soon change.  more[...]  login_required

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    Yang Razali Kassim, Nanyang Technological University 
     
  • Will the Arab Spring Free the “Orphans of Globalization”?

    Prof. Jean-Pierre Lehmann, IMD

    It was a humiliated Arab youth – the Tunisian Mohammed Bouazizi from the desolate village of Sidi Bouzid – who, in immolating himself, sparked a revolution that engulfed his country, spread to Egypt, and has gripped the entire Arab world. It is the first revolution to happen in the Arab world for some time, certainly one led by youth, and it is the first in which the spirit of revolution was spread through such social media instruments as Facebook and Twitter.  more[...]

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    Prof. Jean-Pierre  Lehmann, IMD 
     
  • Improving Labor Standards Performance in the Middle East

    Craig Moss, Social Accountability International (SAI)

    Labor standards and working conditions in the Middle East exhibit many of the same basic problems that occur globally. If we look at workers’ demands from the recent strikes in Egypt and Jordan, we will see issues that clearly violate the International Labour Organization’s core labor conventions – unfortunately, that will surprise no one.  more[...]

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    Craig Moss, Social Accountability International (SAI) 
     
  • Wasta: How the Use of “Connections” Impacts on Private Sector Development in Arab Countries and Why

    Dr. Markus Loewe, German Development Institute

    The literal translation of the Arabic word wasta is “connection,” but it is often employed for favoritism, that is, the use of personal relations for preferential treatment. Favoritism is a form of corruption when someone uses her/his position to distribute the resources of someone else (e.g., the employer or the state) to a friend or relative.  more[...]

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    Dr. Markus Loewe, German Development Institute 
     
  • Freedom, entitlement, and the path to development

    Jean-Pierre Chauffour, World Bank

    Twenty years after the revolutions of Central and Eastern Europe, the Arab Spring is again raising some fundamental questions about the place of freedom and entitlement in development. Depending on the balance between free choices and more coerced decisions , individual opportunities to learn, own, work, save, invest, trade, protect, and so forth could vary greatly across countries and over time.  more[...]

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    Jean-Pierre Chauffour, World Bank 
     
  • Water, oil and demographics: The Arab world’s triple crisis

    Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Institute for Policy Research & Development

    Unless Arab governments invest much more in health, education and citizens' rights, warns Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, the pressures of water scarcity, oil depletion and population growth will spell their downfalls. One in five people around the world lack access to safe drinking water, so it is undeniable that we already face a global water crisis. But water scarcity is not just about its physical availability, it is also about power, poverty and inequality.  more[...]

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    Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Institute for Policy Research & Development 
     
 
 
 
 

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