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Future of Sustainability: From system shock to system change - time to transform

The devastating impact of the COVID-19 crisis has underlined the fact that we face a decade of discontinuity and uncertainty, with further shocks and systemic disruption ahead. Moments of radical disruption like this one force us to revisit what we value and to explore how we might reimagine the future. From System Shock to System Change, published on our newly relaunched platform,…

Future of Sustainability: From system shock to system change - time to transform
Forests, Trees and the Eradication of Poverty: Potential and Limitations

The report, “Forests, Trees and the Eradication of Poverty: Potential and Limitations,” shows that forests and trees support human well-being and are critical to end poverty. It finds that forest-poverty dynamics are affected by a range of social, economic, political, and environmental context factors, such as rural outmigration, gender norms, remittance flows, and elite capture. The report’s key…

Forests, Trees and the Eradication of Poverty: Potential and Limitations
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020. Agricultural markets and sustainable development: Global value chains, smallholder farmers and digital innovations

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets presents commodity market issues in an objective and accessible way to policy-makers, commodity market observers and stakeholders interested in agricultural commodity market developments and their impacts on countries at different levels of economic development. This edition of The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets focuses on how…

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020. Agricultural markets and sustainable development: Global value chains, smallholder farmers and digital innovations
International Migration Outlook 2020

COVID-19 crisis puts migration and progress on integration at risk. Migration flows have increased over the past decade and some progress has been made to improve the integration of immigrants in the host countries. But some of these gains may be erased by the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout. Governments need to secure the health and safety of all workers in essential activities and…

International Migration Outlook 2020
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020. Reversals of Fortune

The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. For more than two decades, extreme poverty was steadily declining. Now, for the first time in a generation, the quest to end poverty has suffered its worst setback. Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020: Reversals of Fortune…

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020. Reversals of Fortune