This week: The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture: An Era of Urbanization
The Global Forum on Food and Agricultures aims to inform agricultural ministers on how to supply growing urban centers with safe and healthy food.…
Time to unlock rights to rural land?
South China Morning Post The mainland’s 900 million farmers will be on the lookout for rural land use reforms after a signal from the…
A new report from Brookings: Foresight Africa 2016
A preview of Foresight Africa: Top priorities for the continent in 2016, in which the Africa Growth Initiative and its colleagues discuss six overarching…
Urban Sustainability Laboratory | Wilson Center
For more than two decades the Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Project has explored the importance of effective governance and inclusion for nurturing livable…
Secondary Cities: Neglected Drivers of Growing Economies
While much of the attention in international development and academia has focused on mega and primary cities, rapidly growing secondary cities will play a…
Blazing the Neoliberal Trail, a new book by Timothy P. R. Weaver
Weaver challenges the dominant narrative that the revival of promarket policies was primarily driven by the American GOP and the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party.
Becoming Jane Jacobs, a new book by Peter L. Laurence
Penn Press, January, 2016 Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and…
China vows to make its crowded, chaotic cities safer and better
“China’s rapid urbanisation has created many social and economic problems, and especially environmental problems – Beijing is like a hell on earth today,” said…
Adapting from the Ground Up: World Resources Institute Report
Small businesses are critical yet often overlooked players in climate change adaptation. This report offers specific policy interventions for policymakers, climate finance providers, and large corporations to engage small businesses in adaptation efforts, enabling them to build their own resilience as well as the resilience of their communities.
C40 2015 Cities Awards
The 2015 C40 Cities Awards took place during the COP21 meeting in Paris. The awards specifically aim to share highly replicable ‘best practices’ across…