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Join the online discussion! Debate topics include: Identifying Obstacles, Global Civil Society, Knowledge Infrastructure, Building a New Structure, Going Global and Getting the Basics Right. The blog New Dutch government: reshaping foreign policie…

The Green Economy is one of the key themes to be addressed by the UNCSD summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. But what is exactly the concept of a green economy?

We are all starters in the sector and fear that the development community has become an inward looking culture that has hardly any interaction with outsiders. How we think the sector is evolving?

The International Studies Association is hosting its 51st Annual Convention in the vibrant city of New Orleans, USA.

In the run-up to the MDG +10 conference in New York (preceding the UN General Assembly in September), The Broker wants to generate an in-depth and visionary discussion on the future of aid. The Dutch report ‘Less pretension, more ambition’, publis…

In the run-up to the MDG +10 conference in New York (preceding the UN General Assembly in September this year), The Broker wants to generate an in-depth and visionary discussion on these questions. The Dutch report ‘Minder pretentie, meer ambitie’…

The opinion article of the December issue of The Broker notes that approximately 1.5 billion family farmers in the world live by producing food for themselves and for cities. In some regions, a policy emphasis on global markets and high-input agri…

The Earth system is changing rapidly due to human activity. The scale of human interference with planetary systems is such that our time could be recognized as a new era in planetary history: the ‘anthropocene’.

The ‘Innovation Dialogue on Being Strategic in the Face of Complexity’, organized by Wageningen University and Research Centre, aims to explore what it means to ‘be strategic in complex times’. The event, on November 30 and December 1 2009, brings…