STWR - Share The World's Resources

Economic growth, population increases and climate change are all contributing to stress on the world's water resources. By 2030, nearly fifty percent of the world population will be living under high-water stress, and 5 billion may be without water sanitation, according to a report by UNESCO.

A swelling global population, changing diets and mankind's expanding “water footprint” could be bringing an end to the era of cheap water, according to The World's Water 2008-2009 report by the Pacific Institute.

The privatisation of the world's natural resources leaves us 'awash with capital but literally running out of nature'. Now, we need a counter narrative to legally protect our global commons, and share our most essential resources, argues a new report by Maude Barlow.

The relentless demand for raw materials will lead to the destruction of the world’s forests - and result in a global land grab that will leave millions of forest people impoverished and homeless, a new study warns.

A civil society response to the World Bank’s Investment Framework for Clean Energy and Development.

The landmark HDR 2007 report nvestigates the underlying causes and consequences of a crisis that leaves 1.2 billion people without access to safe water and 2.6 billion without access to sanitation.

This report from nef's food programme for Oxfam examines current interest in the proposition that enhancing the productivity of family farms is the most effective way to reduce rural poverty in the developing world.