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On the 16 October 2008 former President Clinton announced at a United Nations’ conference “we all blew it, even me.” This statement was acknowledging the major role that the west played in causing the 2006-2008 global food crisis, largely by their treatment of crops “like color TVs” rather than realizing …

This week, INESAD’s Ioulia Fenton published the following post about INESAD’s intern team on On Think Tanks: One thing has become undeniable over the last couple of decades, especially since the beginning of the current global crisis: Getting a foot on the career ladder is increasingly hard. Well qualified students and …

With the highest concentration of jaguars in the world and an incredibly rich tropical biodiversity, the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary in Belize is an invaluable area not only for its scientific potential, but also due to the economic advantages of eco-tourism. Unfortunately, the installment of the wildlife sanctuary 25 years …

By Michael Jacobs Over the past four years the concept of ‘green growth’ has burst onto the international policy scene. A term rarely heard before 2008, it now occupies a prominent position in the international policy discourse. The last two G20 Summits—international meetings of the heads of government of the …

According to Conservation International‘s 2009 book, The Wealth of Nature, ecosystems support and regulate all natural processes on earth, while contributing to cultural, social, and economic benefits to human communities. These have become known as ecosystem services and, according to the Rainforest Conservation Fund (RCF), they would cost trillions of …

Over the next four weeks, to coincide with INESAD’s Environmental Sustainability Month, Development Roast will release fascinating and informative infographic every Monday. To kick off the month, we bring you those depicting one of the most pressing environmental issues to date, global warming.

“When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money,” Native American saying “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs,” Brundtland …

By Tim Gieseke “Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the world.” Archimedes, 230 BC Nothing seems to loom larger than the degradation of the environment at the hand of the growing global economy. This antagonistic relationship has been recognized for centuries …

Research, policy making and general life should be as fun as it is serious, so at INESAD we have let our hair down for an entertaining and productive month: MEDIA FRENZY: Having recently implemented a new media and communications strategy, during October INESAD began to reap the rewards. Ioulia Fenton, …

Whether it is family Trivia Pursuit at Christmas, Words with Friends on the android phone, or Second Life on a P.C., everyone likes to play games. They are challenging, fun, and constitute a healthy source of friendly competition. However, as Jane McGonigal, an American game designer, argued in her TED …