The palm oil sector is facing entrenched social conflict between companies and communities. Community consent is proposed to create a ‘level playing field’.

Knowledge is a catalyst – an indispensable ingredient in all human progress and development. Despite this, as many commentators are discovering, knowledge is missing from Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. But recent developments seem to indicate that the UN, civil society and others are finding ways of putting knowledge back into the mix.

Kate Raworth’s ‘Doughnut economics’ challenges economists to do better – to design institutions and economies that are just and sustainable. But will the doughnut fly?

Around 170 million Africans will enter the continent’s labour market between 2010 and 2020. African policymakers consider industrialization the way to create employment opportunities for these new labour market entrants.

How can we explain the rise and subsequent fall of Greece’s anti-austerity movement? A brief reflection on a period of mass mobilization, political change and social solidarity.

Decoupling is a dangerous fantasy sustained by disavowal – the simultaneous admission and denial – of its impossibility in practice.