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Land, Energy & Water

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Warnings of a Global Land Grab

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.

 
How the World Bank’s Energy Framework Sells the Climate and Poor People Short

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

 
The 2006 Human Development Report: Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis

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.

 
A long row to hoe: family farming and rural poverty in developing countries

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.

 
Going public can solve the global water crisis

Public water providers need to be at the heart of efforts to tackle the global water crisis, say anti-poverty campaigners the World Development Movement in a report released to mark World Water Day, 22 March.