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By Making It on 5 December, 2011
Richard Heinberg and Matthew Lockwood debate the “end of growth”, and what lies at the foundation of a post-carbon, green economy
Posted in All Posts, Hot Topic | Tagged Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, c02, carbon emissions, climate change, constant growth, de-carbonized economy, debt, developed countries, developing countries, division of labour, economic crisis, economic expansion, economic growth is effectively over, economists, emissions reductions, environmental damage, executives, gender equality, gender issue, global economy, government cover-up, grandchildren's future, green growth, Industrial Development, industrial revolution, infrastructure, innovation, investment, irreversible climate change effects, issue 8, limited national resources, low-carbon technologies, Making It magazine, Matthew Lockwood, no recovery, politics, Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg, sustainability, the economy is recovering, the end of growth, transition away from fossil fuels, UK's Institute of Development Studies, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, women, world warming
By Making It on 2 December, 2011
Zoe Elena Horn examines the impact of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy through her work on the Inclusive Cities study
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, Asia, barring access to waste, chronic unemployment and underemployment, employment, financial literacy, financial services, focus groups, gender equality, global economic crisis, government, grim, harassment, home-based work, Inclusive Cities project, income earning opportunities, India, Industrial Development, informal enterprises, interviews, investment, issue 8, latin america, Making It magazine, minimum wage schemes, policymakers, policymaking, raids, research, self-employment, SEWA, skills training, social and economic protection, socially vulnerable, street trade, subsidize electricity, technology improvement, UN, unemployment, UNIDO, United Nations, unpaid care and domestic chores, vulnerability, waste collection, well-being, WIEGO, women, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, women in the informal sector, world's poorest and most vulnerable workers, world's richest countries, Zoe Elena Horn
By Making It on 28 July, 2011
Nestlé’s Paul Bulcke recognizes success depends on creating value for everyone – from farmers to consumers – and discusses how to achieve it
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged advice, agribusiness, agriculture, ambition, Brazil, business, child labour, civil society, community involvement, consumers, creating shared value, CSV, deforestation footprint, doing business, economic growth, economic reality, employment, environment, food security, future, global export, globalization, Harvard, HIV, hope, Industrial Development Organization, infrastructure, interconnectivity, interdependence, investment, issue 6, local government, Making It magazine, Michael Porter, micronutrients, milk, mutual value, Nestlé, nutrition, Paul Bulcke, poverty, product strategy, roads, rural development, social benefits, societal advancement, South Africa, supply chain, sustainability, sustainable business practices, UN, UN Global Compact, UNIDO, United Nations, unwelcome, vaccines, values, water, water management, Water Mandate, Water Resources Group, water treatment systems, working together, World Economic Forum
By Making It on 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
By Making It on 4 July, 2011
Guillermo García explains how agribusiness can help Colombia’s peasant farmers ditch coca cultivation and pursue legal and more secure opportunities
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access, agribusiness, agriculture, alternative development, alternatives, Amazon, beans, black pepper, cacao, Canadá, Carrefour, Casino, coca cultivation, cocaine, coconuts, coffee, Columbia, competition, dairy products, demand, development, distribution, drugs, environment, Europe, export, Fair Trade, France, gourmet sauces, government, guerrillas, Guillermo Garcia, heart of palm, honey, illegal, income, infrastructure, Inter-American Development Bank, International, investment, issue 6, Japan, legality, local, Making It magazine, marketing, middlemen, opportunities, packaging, paramilitary, peasant farmers, private sector, Putumayo, quality, security, socio-economic intervention, Spain, subsistence, traffickers, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNODC
By Making It on 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
By Making It on 7 April, 2011
Lucy Muchoki, CEO of the Pan African Agribusiness and Agro-Industry Consortium, tells Making It about agribusiness challenges in Africa, and how the future could look.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, Angola, CEO, China, commodity, countries, credit, economic output, éducation, efficiency, empowerment, EU, European Union, export, farming, finance, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, food storage, foreign markets, future, GDP, global partnership, globalization, government, growth, import, independence, Industrial Development, infrastructure, investment, IT, jobs, labour, liberalization, Lucy Muchoki, MDGs, methodologies, Millennium Development Goals, Mozambique, opportunity, Pan African Agribusiness and Agro-Industry Consortium, PanAAC, poverty, price, private sector, rural population, science, small-scale, SME, sourcing, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania, tax, traceability, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, urban, US, water sustainability, women, young people, youth
By Making It on 25 February, 2011
How sub-Saharan African countries can seize the new opportunities to advance their own development through trade with China
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 1990s, Africa, agriculture, Cape Verde, chemicals, China, Chinese Ministry of Commerce, climate, commodity price shock, comparative advantage, competition, development, economic recovery, éducation, emerging economies, engine of development, environment, EU, Europe, European Union, export, FDI, financial crisis, food, foreign direct investment, GDP, Ghana, Global Competitiveness Index, global economy, government, growth rate, high-income countries, human, import, Industrial Development Organization, investment, issue 5, Jiying Plastic Products, Kenya, labour-intensive, lower-middle income countries, machinery, Making It, Mali, man-made products, manufactured goods, market, metals, natural, north-south trade, ore, petroleum, policy, raw material, resources, Rwanda, south-south trade, statistics, sub-Saharan, technology, trade, trade growth, transport equipment, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, vuvuzela, world, World Bank, world cup 2010, World Economic Forum, Xiao Ye, Zhejiang province
By Making It on 23 February, 2011
Simon Maxwell on how to avoid the downsides of climate change – and how to capture the possible upsides too!
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged adaptation, agriculture, Australia, batteries, Bolivia, business, capitalism, carbon emission, CDKN, challenge, Climate and Development Knowledge Network, climate change, climate compatible development, co2, coal, comparative advantage, Connie Hedegaard, development, dialogue, disruptive, energy, energy-intensive industries, epic scale, European Union's Climate Change Commissioner, experience, extreme weather, flood, future, global economy, globalization, government, heating, hydro, Indonesia, Industrial Development Organization, industrial policy, industrialists, infrastructure, innovation, International, investment, issue 5, lesson, lithium, livelihood, lobbies, long-term development, Making It, Maldives, market, mitigation, Napoleon, oil, Pakistan, policymakers, politics, post-petroleum age, poverty, product development, renewables, reserves, resources, restructuring, risk, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Schumpeter, short-term, Simon Maxwell, social impacts, societies, technology, temperature rise, trade, UNIDO, United Kingdom, United Nations, vietnam, warning, wind, wolar
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