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A Singapore study shows career breaks to care for family hold back not only a woman’s rise in the corporate ladder but also affect her retirement savings.
Indigenous peoples can better articulate their role in making sense of a project’s environmental and social impacts through participatory storytelling.
In Nepal, a project looked at how biochar can improve soil health and crop yields and reduce the importation of carbon-intensive farm inputs.
Digital connectivity is a public good that can lead to new and sustainable growth areas and facilitate cross-border trade and remittances.
The World Food Programme uses cash transfers not just to feed the hungry but also to give people purchasing power to buy locally, helping to boost economies.
Well-designed and participatory eco-compensation schemes with proper technical assistance can help small farmers in some of the poorest and most ecologically sensitive areas in the People’s Republic of China.
Increased use of geospatial modelling in integrated energy planning highlights gaps in data.
The Lao PDR is using gender, disability, and inclusion data to design better, more targeted public services.
The EU’s regulation to reduce tropical deforestation caused by agriculture will be crucial, but it may impose severe short-term costs on smallholders.
Without proper valuation, natural assets’ scarcity remains economically invisible, leading to their exploitation for short-term gains.