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15 November 2012
Nnimmo Bassey claims that in Nigeria the authorities’ efforts to curb gas flaring are being thwarted by the big oil companies.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged AGIP, Bayelsa State, Chevron, clean development mechanism, Delta State, environmental protection agency, Environmental Rights Action, Etelebou, ExxonMobil, Friends of the Earth International, gas flaring, Gbaran-Ubie, greenhouse gases, health impacts, human rights, Imiringi (Kolo Creek), JK4, Kwale, Making It magazine, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Nigerian Joint Military Taskforce, Nigeria’s Directorate of Petroleum Resources, Nnimmo Bassey, Oben, oil companies. oil fields, Ondewari, Opolo-Epie, Ossiama Creek, Ovade-Ogharefe, Pan Ocean, Petroleum Industry Bill, Shell, UNIDO, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, West African Gas Pipeline project, World Bank
3 December 2011
Why gender equality is fundamental to Ireland’s overseas development programme
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged building networks, business and farmers associations, Early Childhood Care and Education, enabling women to control their fertility, equitable societies, Fair Trade, female entrepreneurs, gender equality, gender-blind, government, health, human rights, Industrial Development, international trade, Ireland's Minister of State for Trade and Development, Ireland's National Women's Strategy, Ireland's overseas development programme, Irish aid, issue 8, Jan O'Sullivan TD, key facet of empowerment, least developed countries, liberalization, Making It magazine, networking, Orsi Parkanyi, productivity, quality maternal and reproductive health, sustained economic growth, third-level institutions, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, universities, Women as Entrepreneurs, women in parliament, women's economic empowerment, women's engagement in economy, women's issue
30 November 2011
Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women, explains how to advance the aim of gender equality, and what obstacles prevent women from accessing greater economic opportunities
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, Asia, credit, dependency, development, economic empowerment of women, economic opportunities, employment and entrepreneurial activities, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, gender equality, gender gaps, gender issue, globalization, goods and services, government, Hilary Clinton, human rights, ILO, International Labour Organization, livelihoods, macroeconomic policies, Making It magazine, McKinsey, Michelle Bachelet, policymaking, poverty, poverty reduction, prevent women, private sector development, rio+20, social and labour market obstacles, social challenges, structural inequalities, UN Global Compact, UN Women, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, World Ecnomic Forum
13 September 2011
For centuries, Afghanistan has been a leader in carpet production, but years of political instability have damaged the industry. Charles Arthur traces the Afghan carpet’s journey from point of production to point of sale
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to education, Afghan soil, Afghan women weavers, Afghanistan, Arzu Studio Hope, carpet production, carpet retail business in Vienna, Charles Arthur, Connie Duckworth, cycle of poverty, Dari, dealers, difficult to import carpets, Dubai, economic activity, economic growth, Europe, free-standing looms, George Vartian, global investment banking firm, global recession, Goldman Sachs, healthcare, Herat, high-quality carpet, human rights, Industrial Development, innovative model of social entrepreneurship, instability, international community, issue 5, Karachi, lack of investment, landlocked, legal export, local, long-term investment, Making It, manufacturing, mountainous country, Nangarhar province, network of weavers, newly established international sales hub in Istanbul, North America, northern Afghanistan, northern provinces, Pakistan, Pakistani exporters, Peshawar, rural, Russian buyers, significant growth and export potential, small-scale, sourcing and selling, steady income, Taliban regime, trade, transportation challenges, Tremayne, Turkey, UNIDO, US Afghan Women's Council, US Agency for International Development, US consulting company, US Departments of the Interior and Defence, USAID, value-added, violence, warfare, wholesalers, women
8 August 2011
Biofuels address three key global challenges: maintenance of energy security, economic development, and mitigation of climate change
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged 2020, agribusiness, Alena Buyx, biodiversity, biofuels, challenge, climate change, development, efficiency, environment, ethical issues, ethics, European, European Union, food security, globalization, greenhouse gas emissions, human rights, indigenous, Industrial Development Organization, intellectural property rights, issue 6, justice, labour rights, law, Making It, Malaysia, moral values, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, palm oil plantation, policy, policymakers, prices, production, regional, Renewable Energy Directive, report, rights, solidarity, standards, stewardship, sustainability, target, target-based strategy, technology, trade, transport, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, workers
6 July 2011
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, pushes for more innovative designs for the global food system
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, agro-ecology, architect, build, climate change, co2, commodities, crisis, deforestation, design, developing countries, distaster, domestic supply, donor contributions, Egypt, export, farmers, feed, fight, food crises, food security, foreign producers, France, future, g20, global food system, government, greenhouse gas emissions, health care, human rights, humanitarian supplies, hunger, import, Industrial Development, infrastructure, innovation, insecurity, International, investment, living wage, Making It magazine, market, Mozambique, Olivier De Schutter, organizations, peak prices, politics, population growth, poverty, prices, producers, protection, reinsurance mechanism, remedy, reserves, Robert Zoellick, root causes, safety, safety nets, shock, social-protection programmes, solution, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, srfood.org, stable revenue, Sub-Saharan Africa, sustainability, symptoms, technology, trade, trend, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, value chains, World Bank
30 June 2011
Country feature on Ethiopia, including Prime Minister Meles Zenawi speaking about his vision for sustainable development
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, African Union, agribusiness, aid, bio-fuels, carbon emissions, China, Christianity, clean, Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance, conflict, construction, country feature, degradation, dependency, developing country, development, developmental aid, developmental state, economy, energy, environment, Ethiopia, famine, finance, food crisis, g20, geo-thermal, Global, globalization, government, green, growth, helter-skelter, human rights, hunger, hydropower, impoverished, independence, Industrial Development Organization, infrastructure, institutional growth, international loans, investment, Islam, issue 6, liberalization, local, Making It magazine, manufacturing, Meles Zenawi, modern, neo-liberal paradigm, Oromia, Peter Gill, policy, poverty, power, Prime Minister, private sector, public investment, re-forestation, renewable resources, resources, roads, social sector, sugar production, sustainable future, transport, UN, UNIDO, United Nations
27 March 2011
For business values, norms, ethics, private standards are one way of promoting social development and environmental sustainability
Posted in Policy Brief | Tagged business, civil society, competitive advantage, consumption, developing countries, ecologic, efficiency, environment, export, Global, globalization, governance, guideline, human rights, Industrial Development Organization, International, issue 5, liberalization, market, Müge Dolun Bora, national, policy, practices, private standards, production, regional, report, responsibility, safety, social, study, sustainability, technical regulation, trade, UNIDO, United Nations, workers' rights
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