India Social Enterprise Landscape Report
Social enterprises (SEs) have the potential to make India’s spectacular growth story work better for its poor citizens. Currently, India’s rapidly growing economy has not managed to alleviate the extreme
Social enterprises (SEs) have the potential to make India’s spectacular growth story work better for its poor citizens. Currently, India’s rapidly growing economy has not managed to alleviate the extreme
Solar markets are booming in the United States due to falling photovoltaic prices, strong consumer demand, and financial incentives from the federal government, states and utilities.
The report aims to provide a conceptual framework to address food security under conditions of water scarcity in agriculture.
Getting food from the farm to our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and swallows 80 percent of all freshwater consumed in the United States. Yet, 40
Developing countries are bracing themselves for the worst effects of rising corn, soy and wheat prices on their poorest people. One of the worst hot-spots is Yemen which is heavily dependent on food imports,
2012 has brought welcome news of the progress made in bringing water and sanitation to the many people worldwide still without access to these essential services. The Joint Monitoring Programme between
While national carbon dioxide emissions are regularly published for most countries, data specific to individual sectors, companies, geographic regions, or facilities are more difficult to obtain – if available
This new paper by ICTSD discusses net food-importing developing countries – the most vulnerable – in the light of the recent commodity price spikes: who they are, and policy options for dealing with global price volatility.
Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are increasingly using small-scale irrigation to cultivate their land. Individually owned and operated irrigation technologies improve yields, reduce
Bush-era tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of 2012, leading to interest in raising revenue through a carbon tax. This revenue could be used to either cut other taxes or to avoid cuts in Federal
India’s substantial and sustained growth has placed enormous demand on the country’s natural resources. Today, India imports substantial quantities of gas, oil and coal in order to meet its growing energy
The prices of internationally traded maize and soybeans reached all-time peaks in July, following an unprecedented summer in both the United States and Eastern Europe in terms of high temperatures and
“Indian Public Finance Statistics” is an annual publication prepared by the Economic Division of the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. This provides a comprehensive overview of the
This recent survey report by the Project on Climate Change Communication at Yale University and GlobeScan reveals how Indians are thinking about and responding to climate change.
The Government of India ratified the Convention on Nuclear Safety on March 31, 2005. This National Report is being submitted by India for review by the Contracting Parties to the 2 nd extraordinary
This is the report of a Technical Working Group which was convened, in April 2012, to develop an OCV stockpile implementation framework. Participants advised on: the criteria for choice of stockpiled vaccine
Precautionary guidelines for mobile users - Mobile users are advised to take precautionary measures while using a mobile handset.
As of of 30 June 2012, WSSCC’s Global Sanitation Fund supports work actively in Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, Senegal and Uganda. In those countries, 94 sub-grantees have raised
This report contains information on a rapid field assessment of Boran pastoralists of southern Ethiopia to: (1) gauge local communities’ perceptions of the need for local climate change adaptation strategies
This CAG audit of capacity expansion in hydro power sector found deficiencies in the projects right from planning to execution and said that the delays in commissioning of projects had led to the opportunity loss of generating 26,282.97 million units of electricity annually.