livelihoods Archives

Games as boundary objects: charting trade-offs in sustainable livestock transformation

Journal article / This paper describes an inclusive participatory approach engaging multi-stakeholders in decision-making processes in three African agri-food systems.

27 March 2020 / About Food and agriculture and Participation

Rights-based claims and extractive industries in Asia: an assessment and ways forward

SEI working paper / Read a literature review of rights-based claims against extractive industries in Asia.

12 March 2020 / About Land use and Public policy

Bioenergy in Kenya: Making tea production sustainable

Media coverage / Rocio Diaz Chaves, Deputy Centre Director at SEI Africa featured by Deutsche Welle (DW) in a short movie about biofuel from sugarcane waste.

27 February 2020 / About Business, Food and agriculture, Forests, Innovation, Land use, Planning and modelling, Renewables and Supply chains

Farmer and wife smiling sitting outside of their house

What drives human behaviour when it comes to development solutions?

Feature / Explore the results from our Initiative on Behaviour and Choice, including a toolkit for behaviour-based development interventions and examples of its use.

27 February 2020 / About Behaviour and choice, Climate policy, Energy access, Food and agriculture, Household energy, Innovation and Pollution

Why gender matters in tackling marine plastic litter – a Q&A with May Thazin Aung and Babette Resurrección

Perspective / Interview with the lead authors of the UN Environment report, Marine Plastic Litter in East Asian Seas: Gender, Human Rights and Economic Dimensions

11 November 2019 / About Adaptation, Behaviour and choice, Participation, Pollution, Sanitation, Sustainable lifestyles and Wellbeing

Careless development models in wake of Yolanda

Media coverage / As Tacloban city struggles six years after being devastated by Typhoon Yolanda, a call to transform current development and recovery models.

9 November 2019 / About Adaptation, Cities, Climate policy, Disaster risk, Innovation, Participation and Public policy

Indigenous knowledge for the future – a talk with community leader Mama Aleta

Feature / Lauded indigenous leader from West Timur Mama Aleta recently spoke with SEI, urging the use of Indigenous knowledge to meet today's environmental challenges.

7 November 2019 / About Food and agriculture, Land use, Participation and Public policy

Indigenous Peoples of Southeast Asia reaffirm their rights

Perspective / The lands and livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples in Southeast Asia face mounting threats. Their knowledge and rights are vital to addressing these threats.

28 October 2019 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Participation, Public policy and Sustainable lifestyles

People burning cables in waste dump to collect copper, Ghana.

Grant award for project to tackle air pollution in West African cities

Press release / Scientists at SEI and the University of York have been awarded £674,000 to develop a project to measure air pollution.

18 October 2019 / About Cities, Household energy and Pollution