The latest Policy Brief of the Earth System Governance Project - a ten years research initiative, which is sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and the United Nations University...

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Myriam Vander Stichele, a dedicated senior researcher at the Amsterdam-based Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations. She spoke about this week’s WTO Public Forum discussing “Seeking answers...

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Myriam Vander Stichele, a dedicated senior researcher at the Amsterdam-based Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations. She spoke about this week’s WTO Public Forum discussing “Seeking answers...

Probably you already have noticed that The Broker started a project called the “Bellagio Initiative: living well in the 21st century”. This is mainly an online debate on a series of questions related to the promotion of human wellbeing in general,...

On Thursday 18 August the FAO had a follow-up Emergency Ministerial-Level Meeting on the deteriorating food situation in the Horn of Africa. Famine has been formally declared in several regions of Somalia, but populations in neighbouring countries...

England has been in the grip of looting, rioting and vandalism during the past days. And being in England at the moment - with BBC News on in the background - I’m reading a speech by Professor of Economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Pa...

Some weeks ago the European Commission published its initial views on the strategy towards the Rio+20 Summit. The communication has to fuel dialogues ahead of a final EU Rio+20 Strategy later this year. Although the communication, titled 'Rio+20:...

A very interesting recent study by the Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) looks in detail at which tropical areas of the world will be threatened most by climate change, pinpointing geographical hot...

The news is spreading: China’s new generation of migrant workers in the booming export industry are roaring their voice. The number and intensity of protests is on the rise in China’s urban industrial areas. Read for example Reuters’ special repor...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food price index increased by 3 points to 234 points last month. That’s 39% percent higher than in June 2010 but four percent below its all-time high of 238 points in February of this year...