Research Resources

Four partner organizations of the the EED-TFIP will be presenting their research findings as part of its panel presentation to the forthcoming First International Conference on Cordillera Studies by the UP Baguio Cordillera Studies Center on 07 to 09 February 2008 at the University of the Philippines Baguio. The conference’s theme is entitled “Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Transition”.
 

The Human Development Report 2007/2008 shows that climate change is not just a future scenario. Increased exposure to droughts, floods and storms is already destroying opportunity and reinforcing inequality. Meanwhile, there is now overwhelming scientific evidence that the world is moving towards the point at which irreversible ecological catastrophe becomes unavoidable. Business-as-usual climate change points in a clear direction: unprecedented reversal in human development in our lifetime, and acute risks for our children and their grandchildren.

The contents, chapter 1, and the index of this volume, published in the UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics and Policy series by Palgrave Macmillan is available as a PDF sample.
Originally posted Nov. 15, 2007 by Keystone

This FAO Working paper seeks to propose a flexible general approach to addressing food security through agricultural and rural development and direct actions to enhance immediate access to food. Arguably, this paper may serve as a starting point for dialogue among these parties, to clarify the scope of the Initiative, and to propose a broad conceptual approach to the strategy process. For your reference and possible comments.

This year, the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, dug in its heels for Food Sovereignty defined as people’s right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through equitable, ecologically sound and sustainable methods. Food sovereignty is our right to determine our own food systems. It puts people – not international markets or corporate megaprofits – at the heart of food and development policies.