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Journal article / This paper looks at users' experience of connecting to and using electricity services from a 60 kW solar mini-grid in Mpanta, Zambia.

SEI brief / This brief looks at the failures of development and disaster risk reduction and calls for a transformation in this relationship through policy changes.

Program / SEI’s Strategic Collaborative Fund Phase 2 fosters regional cooperation and policy dialogue for sustainable development and environmental sustainability.

Perspective / SEI Scientist Georgia Piggot, who participated in the Talanoa Dialogue, explains the nuts, bolts and ambitions of this UNFCCC storytelling event.

Feature / Using Trase transparency data, discover insights into how companies' and importers' sourcing of Brazilian soy could link them to deforestation.

Press release / New analysis in the Trase Yearbook identifies deforestation risks associated with the supply chain of soy.

Feature / SEI recently signed an agreement with Myanmar’s Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems (DWIR) to strengthen research and policy.

Journal article / How can better transparency boost sustainability governance in agricultural commodity supply chains?

Past event / SEI Senior Reseach Fellow and Burtoni Award recipient Richard J.T. Klein provides perspective on Adaptation Futures 2018. A list of SEI events is included.

Perspective / SEI Research Fellow Anna Taylor offers insights on climate change adaptatation based on her research and on experiences living in drought-stricken Cape Town.

Journal article / This paper presents and tests a conceptual framework for analysing the trade-offs that underpin the relationship between development and disaster risk.

Feature / Find out how participants and collaborators from the SEI Science Forum are visualising and enabling action on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Feature / If decision-making imbalances are ignored, adaptation can perpetuate inequalities. Find out how a new index will identify imbalances and measure success.

Perspective / Video is a storytelling format that creates compelling narratives. How can it be used to communicate research?

Feature / Our lives are defined by globalization – we are inescapably intertwined. The TCI Index looks at the international dimension of climate adaptation.

Feature / SEI experts organised a brainstorming workshop for people interested in combining food waste research with citizen science approaches.

Journal article / How do actors involved in the governance of water, energy and food in the Upper Blue Nile interact with each other across sectors and scales.

Perspective / How can we integrate regional African bioeconomies into a global bioeconomy while aligning with the SDGs? Find out what 70 experts discussed at this summit.

Perspective / The production process of gold is rife with negative social, environmental and economic impacts. Governance is the critical issue behind the systemic problems.

Journal article / This paper presents a macroeconomic model for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean structuralist tradition.