Brasília, March 27, 2013 – The International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth hosted a 10-day E-discussion between February 10th and March 4th on the topic of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) with support from the UK Department for International Development. The discussion attempted to address the key tensions that exist at the intersection of climate change and agriculture [...]
Article published at Revista Desafios do Desenvolvimento of the Intitute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) – Ano 9, No. 72 By Daniella Cambaúva – São Paulo As a result of a partnership between the Brazilian government, the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) and the United Nations, the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth is [...]
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — In a high-level forum at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development today the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) presented the conceptual groundwork for a future “Sustainable Human Development Index,” which would recognize the cost of human development to future generations. The UNDP forum was prompted by the call made by many [...]
The premiere of the documentary ‘What Unites Us All‘ will be held on 21 June in Rio de Janeiro as part of the Rio+20 global conference. The documentary was produced by the Earth Condominium NGO and filmed entirely with aerial footage, highlighting the complex relations of consumption and provision of ecosystem services at local and global [...]
Brasilia, 11 May 2012 – The capital of Brasil will host a high-level event on agriculture and development: the International Seminar on The Role of South-South Cooperation in Agricultural Development in Africa. For the first time, the event will bring together inBrasilia representatives from African countries, Europe andChina, as well as main partners and actors [...]
The first high-level delegation of Uganda to visit Brazil for exchanges on social protection and inclusive growth policies took part in a full-week Study Tour programme on March 2012 in Brasilia and Formosa. The Uganda Delegation*, which was composed of ten senior government representatives – including Cabinet Ministers, will participated in a series of learning [...]
Authors : Darana Souza and Danuta Chmielewska for IPC-IG Poverty in Focus magazine on the dimensions of inclusive development. Brasilia,15 February 2012 - Food security has been in the spotlight at the global level as concerns over significant challenges in securing sustained access to food have been mounting. These challenges include the degradation of natural resources and [...]
“Today we have the largest generation of young people the world has ever known. They are demanding their rights and a greater voice in economic and political life. We need to pull the UN system together like never before to support a new social contract of job-rich economic growth. Let us start with young people!” [...]
By Maria Denise Galvani* A broad body of literature acknowledges important developments in the field of social protection that have been recently occurring in developing countries. It has been said about this matter that there is a “quiet revolution from the Global South”, which has integrated over 190 million poor households to income assistance programmes in [...]
8 February 2012 – “Drought, poor harvests and rising food prices have left the Sahel region of West-Central Africa on the brink of a humanitarian crisis,” warned Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food. “We must not wait until people are starving in order to act. The world must respond immediately [...]
