rural development

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.

Accelerating change in agriculture – AgriFoSe2030 phase II launch event

Past event / The launch event of AgriFoSe2030 to highlight and celebrate the new, second phase of the programme, took place on 24 November 2020.

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.

Sanitation from a One Health perspective

Past event / Online seminar exploring a One Health approach to sustainable sanitation

We must understand the culture of wildlife consumption to stop future pandemics

Perspective / Strict controls alone won’t work – measures must take account of culture, behaviour and awareness.

Harvesting the sun twice

Project / Enhancing livelihoods in East African agricultural communities through innovations in solar energy.

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.

GCRF Peri-Urban Resilient Ecosystems (PURE)

Project / PURE supports development of just and representative climate resilient urban strategies in dryland Namibia, to enhance future health, wellbeing and development.

Capital cost subsidies through India’s <i>Ujjwala</i> cooking gas programme promote rapid adoption of liquefied petroleum gas but not regular use

SEI brief / Although a subsidy programme in India has encouraged adoption of modern cooking gas, households have not shifted away from using highly polluting solid fuels.