Food and agriculture

Ozone air pollution and gender inequality in India

Perspective / The socioeconomic impacts of air pollution and crop losses need more understanding – especially when it comes to gender.

Poverty, water and gender in Cambodia

Project / This project will create a poverty framework for the Stung Chinit basin and incorporate it into a water resources model.

Basin-scale impacts of hydropower development on the Mompós Depression wetlands, Colombia

Journal article / This study examines how the continued development of hydroelectric dams could affect one of the largest wetland systems in South America.

Change story: Addressing a growing water crisis in Bolivia

Feature / Bolivia faces a deepening water crisis. SEI helped plan for the future by creating the first-ever comprehensive model of Bolivia’s rivers, lakes and streams.

Can the wrongs be righted? Prospects for remedy in the Philippine oil palm agro‐industry

Journal article / Read one of the first detailed examinations of the growing oil palm sector in the Philippines.

Why ozone levels pose a challenge to food security

Media coverage / Ozone is a major air pollutant that threatens agricultural yields globally - Repost of SEI blog from The Conversation

Hybrid governance in agricultural commodity chains: insights from implementation of “No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation” (NDPE) policies in the oil palm industry

Journal article / Should governments be doing more to keep global palm oil value chains sustainable?

In rural Myanmar, more frequent and intense droughts are affecting local livelihoods

Feature / In the dry and arid central region of Myanmar, climate risks mean more intense and longer dry spells and frequent droughts.

New SEI initiative aims to help the bioeconomy take root in the global South

Feature / Ivar Virgin talks about the new SEI Initiative on Governing Bioeconomy Pathways and his role in the Global Bioeconomy Summit 2018.