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Shifting water demands onto the vulnerable?

Our water footprints have gone global. The drivers include modern agribusiness and the unprecedented reach of value chains. Those living where rain falls or rivers flow may give little thought to the water demands of their lifestyles. Others do not have that privilege. Worldwide, people’s water uses contribute to an increasingly complex web of “virtual” water flows implied in agricultural production, trade, and investment. This datablog entry introduces some of the water issues of global market-driven agricultural investment in developing countries.

CDE's approach

Visualize a strategy

For this blog post, we used CDE’s new Strategy 2016–2021 to explore and visualize text mining techniques. Nowadays text mining

Socio-Economic Transitions

Good intentions, big footprints: Facing household energy use in rich countries

This CDE policy brief looks at energy-related household carbon footprints. Scientists agree that human activity – above all emission of

Land Resources

Investing in mountain regions is essential for global sustainable development

Investing in mountain regions is decisive for the future not only of mountain regions but of the planet as a

Sustainability Governance

Switzerland’s Dominance in the Commodities Trade

Switzerland has recently emerged as one of the world’s most important hubs in the global trade of commodities. But its

Land Resources

Joint Action for Sustainable Development –
A storymap

The Eastern and Southern Africa Partnership Programme (ESAPP) was launched in 1999 and concluded in 2015. This storymap summarizes experiences and knowledge gained from 15 years of partnership-based research and action in Africa. It presents 24 representative highlights carefully selected from over 300 small-grant projects carried out in Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.

Land Resources

Sustainable Land Management is simply about people looking after the land – for the present and for the future

Sustainable Land Management (SLM) means maintaining healthy land resources – soil, water, vegetation, and animals – including their productive functions (e.g. food security), ecological functions (e.g. water, nutrient, and carbon cycles), and biodiversity.

Sustainability Governance

Where our roses come from – commercial horticulture in Kenya

Growing flowers and vegetables for export is a vital source of revenue for Kenya and other East African countries. It provides jobs for local people, including women, and creates market channels for small-scale farmers to sell their crops. But working conditions and employment terms must be improved. Moreover, the industry is a major water consumer, competing for declining river water with other uses. This is a problem during the dry season, which corresponds with Europe's winter. Near Mt Kenya, the sector is shifting from using river water to relying more on stored water and boreholes.

Socio-Economic Transitions

Socio-Economic Atlas of Kenya

Where in Kenya are most people poor, and where are the most poor people? Is Kenya’s richest county also the one with the greatest inequality? And where is the difference in wealth between the poorest and the richest people biggest? We answer these and more questions about welfare, poverty, and inequality in Kenya by means of interactive visualizations based on the recently published Socio-Economic Atlas of Kenya.

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Around the world with CDE publications in 2015

Set out on a journey from coffee plantations in Laos to protected areas in Switzerland and Austria. Cross the sea and take a break to receive decision-support for assessing land degradation in Tunisia. Continue on to explore potentials and limitations of biomass energy in Tanzania. And then head west to research conditions for crafting local ownership of institution-building processes in Bolivia. Take a trip around the world with publications from CDE researchers.