rural development

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.

Clean and Green

Project / Piloting an innovative rural sanitation framework with the aim to strengthen health and food security.

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.

Designing transformative development interventions

SEI brief / Learn about our new behaviour-based toolkit that can help development interventions tackle complex problems.

How to fund Asia-Pacific community resilience

Perspective / Overseas capital markets can play a vital role in building the resilience of Asia-Pacific enterprises and smallholders.