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Frameworks and platforms can support inclusive and fair climate adaptation

Feature / At Adaptation Futures 2025, “Accelerating Adaptation into Action”, SEI researchers contributed expertise on climate finance, adaptation and co-production.

Specialty markets: rethinking value chains in the tropics

Perspective / Commodities are not always the answer. Specialties suit development based on livelihood and biodiversity conservation, as well as more sustainable consumption.

Anajia Guajira

Tool / Anajia Guajira is a mapping and communication platform to foster a just transition to renewable energy in La Guajira, Colombia.

Advancing a research agenda on agroecology and degrowth: questions we need to ask

Perspective / SEI researchers call for integrating agroecology and degrowth to reshape knowledge, redistribute power and enable just food system change.

Challenges and drivers for the adoption of improved solar drying technologies in mango farming: a case study of smallholder farmers in Mozambique

Journal article / This study explores the barriers and drivers influencing smallholder farmers in Mozambique to adopt solar drying technologies for reducing mango losses.

Sails set for a fair, sustainable energy transition in Colombia

Feature / SEI supports Colombia’s wind energy plans with research shaping fair, inclusive policies cited in the Just Energy Transition Roadmap.

How the Adaptation Research Alliance drives action-oriented research for the most vulnerable

Feature / The ARA, a global collaborative effort hosted by SEI and Chulalongkorn University, has been working to ensure research serves those on the climate frontline.

Knowledge gaps about mining impacts on Sami lands: a call for epistemic justice in European minerals extraction

Journal article / This article examines the gap between environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for new mines in Sweden and actual impacts experienced by the Indigenous Sámi.

Including Indigenous knowledge in land use governance and decision-making

Journal article / This article examines challenges and opportunities in integrating Indigenous knowledge into land use governance and environmental decision-making.