Reports and Documents

This new paper by ICTSD discusses net food-importing developing countries – the most vulnerable – in the light of the recent commodity price spikes: who they are, and policy options for dealing with global price volatility.

2012 has brought welcome news of the progress made in bringing water and sanitation to the many people worldwide still without access to these essential services.

Developing countries are bracing themselves for the worst effects of rising corn, soy and wheat prices on their poorest people.

Getting food from the farm to our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and swallows 80 percent of all freshwater consumed in the United States. Yet, 40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten.

The report aims to provide a conceptual framework to address food security under conditions of water scarcity in agriculture.

Solar markets are booming in the United States due to falling photovoltaic prices, strong consumer demand, and financial
incentives from the federal government, states and utilities.

Social enterprises (SEs) have the potential to make India’s spectacular growth story work better for its poor citizens. Currently, India’s rapidly growing economy has not managed to alleviate the extreme poverty of nearly half the country’s population that lives below the $1.25 per day poverty line.

In Sri Lanka, the quality of drinking water is at the base of all theories linked with Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDue). In many studies, trace metals (especially arsenic) in the environment have been identified as a major geoenvironmental factor contributing to the etiology of renal damage.

This book provides case studies from China, South Korea, India and Indonesia disclosing the ugly face of CSR. Says that for many large MNCs, the CSR is primarily a strategy to divert attention away from the negative social and environmental impacts of their activities.

This collection of papers was presented at a conference on linkages between climate change, water, conflict and migration, held in September 2011 at The Hague, in the Netherlands, where the discussion focused on: capacity building and resilience in climate hotspots; conflict prevention; and a legal framework to protect environmental migrants.