This study highlights the complex trade-offs and dependencies that beset attempts to secure an energy system that performs well across all key objectives. Different countries are of course variously endowed with natural resources and are pursuing economic development from very different starting places.

This paper provides a summary of a more detailed full Report commissioned by the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability. Its purpose is to provide a framework and guide for people engaging with the complex and evolving sustainability literature and the development and application of sustainability assessment tools.

This report assesses key technologies that must be developed in order to convert current, out-dated grids to smart grids, which are essential for a critical area of energy harnessing –using energy efficiently.

This paper provides the building blocks to help private sector players invest in initiatives that address social determinants of health concerns in their communities. Through analysis of pioneering initiatives, the paper extrapolates key overarching guidelines and principles, as well as steps for design planning, implementation and monitoring.

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the available evidence on gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems that has been produced over the last decade. The report also provides policymakers and development actors with an extensive review of what has worked, highlighting the promise of moving from closing specific gender gaps towards the adoption of gender-transformative approaches that explicitly address the formal and informal structural constraints to equality.

The acknowledgement of the relationship between gender, water, and agriculture is crucial to achieving progress on water and food security as well as gender equality, and to the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

This report provides a summary overview of the objectives, activities and recommendations of the IYAFA 2022. It aims to motivate relevant stakeholders to ensure that the end of the Year is the beginning of a new era of support for small-scale fisheries and aquaculture.

This study aims to identify the extent to which climate change-related events and impacts affect child labour in agriculture by exploring the underlying connection between the two challenges as the initial step towards integrating a child labour lens within the international community’s work on climate change.

This report is intended for development practitioners, extensionists and leaders or pioneers in farming communities, to inform them about the experiences and initiatives of farming communities in conservation agriculture in Santa Catarina State, Brazil.

This paper summarises the salient conclusions of the three STAP studies and draws lessons and recommendations for Global Environment Facility(GEF) in further developing its strategic approach to the Land Degradation Focal Area(LD FA) and guiding future investments in sustainable land management (SLM) in order to address gaps in the scientific knowledge and areas where investments will achieve greatest global environmental benefit.