local knowledge Archives

Coffee drying station with long rows of raised beds covered in yellow and black tarpaulins, leading up to corrugated-roof warehouses and a forested hillside.

New digital Nature Tool for effective agricultural sourcing co-developed by Clarmondial and SEI

Press release / Development is underway for a digital version of the Nature Tool, designed to assess nature-related risks and opportunities across agricultural sourcing.

4 June 2026 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture and Water resources

Strengthening evidence on the outcomes of locally led adaptation

Project / This research agenda seeks to strengthen evidence on the outcomes of locally led adaptation to help bridge funding gaps and empower communities.

2026 - 2028 / About Adaptation, Disaster risk and Finance

Two people dressed in black walk away along a gravel road. On the left is fenced grazing land for animals, and on the right side of the road are trees.

Social Impact Framework for assessing the impacts of NBS on human well-being and justice and its relation to biodiversity

Other publication / This brief helps local planners and stakeholders understand how NbS can enhance wellbeing through effective design, governance, and impact assessment.

25 May 2026 / About Adaptation, Cities and Participation

A man on the right side of the image walks across a dry yellow and brown landscape, with occasional brown and green scrub brush and green trees at the horizon that stand among a cluster of clay brick houses, some square with flat roofs, some cylindrical with conical metal roofs.

Sanitation, soil and food security: insights from 20 years of productive sanitation in Burkina Faso

Perspective / Inherently connected, the nutrients needed on the fields are the same nutrients that sanitation systems could capture and reuse.

24 March 2026 / About Food and agriculture and Sanitation

A man renovating the roof of a house standing on scaffolding.

Local leadership is the key missing ingredient in the UK’s retrofit revolution

Perspective / The UK should shift from national, top-down retrofit schemes to locally led delivery, explains SEI’s Luke Gooding in an Inside Housing op-ed.

4 February 2026 / About Household energy and Wellbeing

Communal sustainable development goals, belonging and involvement: engaging with the SDGs

Journal article / This study investigates how Indigenous Peoples and other Traditional Communities in Western Bahia, Brazil, understand and practice sustainability in daily life.

3 February 2026 / About Sustainable Development Goals

Contested borders of fire and reindeer

Journal article / Official reports of Swedish wildfire impacts are compared with Sámi reindeer herders' own perception and navigation of the events.

16 January 2026 / About Adaptation, Forests, Land use and Mitigation

Close up of hands holding a mobile phone, using it to take a photograph or video of two brown and orange butterflies on a round purple flower.

Increasing inclusivity in biological recording in the UK: progress to date and future priorities

Journal article / Eight UK organizations who run volunteer biological recording schemes gathered to evaluate their engagement and activities with underrepresented groups.

15 January 2026 / About Participation

Aerial view of houses at the water's edge, with boats on deep blue and aquamarine water, and green forest to the horizon.

“When will our voice be heard?” Voices from the Pacific

Feature / An event screening a documentary on climate change impacts on Pacific islands served as the basis for wider discussion about taking climate action worldwide.

22 December 2025 / About Climate policy