El Niño: the silent emergency
In April 2016, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, alerted governments gathered in Geneva that they collectively faced “an alarming funding gap of over $2.2 billion” to respond
ActionAid International
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Caught in the net: how “net-zero emissions” will delay real climate action and drive land grabs
Adding “net” to a goal of “zero emissions” may prove to be a trap that delays real climate action, and which could drive devastating land grabs and hunger through the large-scale use of land, biofuels
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The great land heist: how the world is paving the way for corporate land grabs
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/land1.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 164px; margin: 7px; float: left;" />For millions of people living in the world’s
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Tackling the limits to adaptation: an international framework to address 'loss and damage' from climate change impacts
This document argues that current and future scale of climate change implies serious loss and damage, especially to the lives and livelihoods of those who are poor, most vulnerable and least to blame.
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Biofuelling the global food crisis: why the EU must act at the G20
A new report commissioned by ActionAid shows that biofuel targets set by the EU will lead directly to an increase in the prices of key agricultural commodities worldwide by 2020. And – while consumers
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Climate resilient sustainable agriculture: a real alternative to false solutions
ActionAid believes that agroecology-based Climate Resilient Sustainable Agriculture (CSRA) is an effective way to respond to both the climate and food crisis. CRSA proposes to overcome the gaps of contemporary
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Country successes in reducing hunger: how they did it, and why other donors and governments should change policy
From 1970 to 1995 the world made progress in reducing the number of hungry people but the figure always remained above 750 million. Since then, the number has progressively risen, increasing to over a
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Meals per gallon: the impact of industrial biofuels on people and global hunger
Industrial biofuels
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Sustainable agriculture and climate change
Agriculture is now recognised as both contributing to and suffering from the negative effects of climate change. Farming accounts for as much as 32% of greenhouse gas emissions, if
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Who should pay to tackle climate change in developing countries?
Tackling climate change effectively is going to require serious sums of money. Developing countries, many of whom are on the front-line in the battle against global warming, will require large amounts of external public finance to adapt to climate change, combat deforestation and move to low-carbon pathways out of poverty. Rich countries, who have largely caused the