livelihoods Archives

Gender, poverty affect irrigation water access in Cambodia

Promoted podcast / SEI scientist Laura Forni joined The Asia Foundation's podcast to discuss her study on inequalities in Cambodia’s irrigation water access.

11 January 2021 / Behaviour and choice, Food and agriculture, Participation, Planning and modelling and Water resources

Redistributing resilience? Deliberate transformation and political capabilities in post-Haiyan Tacloban

Journal article / This article examines the need for equity and social justice in transformation.

7 January 2021 / About Adaptation, Climate policy and Disaster risk

Aerial view of cows grazing and ruminating in a green grassy field.

Just transitions in animal agriculture

Project / The world’s appetite for animal products continues to grow, with profound implications for the environment, human health and animal welfare.

2021 / About Behaviour and choice, Food and agriculture, Mitigation, Pollution, Public policy, Supply chains, Sustainable lifestyles and Wellbeing

Making research work for smallholder farmers

Feature / Now that AgriFoSe2030 has launched its second phase, get to know more about some of the upcoming projects in these videos.

10 December 2020 / About Food and agriculture, Land use and Participation

Burning dilemma: Sugarcane farmers struggle in Thailand’s green vision

Media coverage / Thailand pushes for bioeconomy vision, toiling to lower air pollution. But cut off from much of the profits, sugarcane farmers continue to burn just to survive.

7 December 2020 / About Bioeconomy, Food and agriculture, Land use, Pollution and Public policy

Woman dairy farmer speaking at a stakeholder meeting, Uganda, showing the importance of stakeholder engagement

Supporting policies and practices for SDG2 in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia

Feature / Agriculture for Food Security 2030, AgriFoSe2030, is launching a new phase of programme activities.

25 November 2020 / About Food and agriculture and Water-energy-food nexus

Designing sustainable pathways for the livestock sector: the example of Atsbi, Ethiopia and Bama, Burkina Faso

Journal article / Paper presents an approach to co-creating a set of viable, acceptable and sustainable development pathways for the livestock sector with local stakeholders.

7 October 2020 / About Ecosystems and Food and agriculture

The impact of air pollution on the world of work for women and youth in East and South East Asia

Project / The project will look at the impact of air pollution in the world of work, including worker productivity, and work quality and quantity.

2020 - 2022 / About Pollution

Tackling the extinction crisis is everyone’s responsibility — and time is running short

Perspective / The BBC documentary 'Extinction: The Facts' by Sir David Attenborough, makes the need for action very clear. Read op-ed by Toby Gardner in The Independent.

15 September 2020 / About Climate policy, Ecosystems and Supply chains