As human-induced climate crisis worsens, losses and damages are escalating, with each new event shattering records from the past. There is unequivocal scientific evidence to support that climate-induced disasters and slow-onset risks will continue to increase (IPCC,...
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Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Building Knowledge and Capacity in the Most Vulnerable Countries
Communities around the world are suffer significant losses and damages from unprecedented extreme climate-induced disasters. This Policy Insight, prepared by the Institute For Study and Development (IFSD) in collaboration with the International Centre for Climate...
Agricultural Trade Potential between Australia and India in the Post-Pandemic Era
We are at the end of a global crisis. The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused detrimental and long-lasting socio-economic tremors to the world, with more than 1.5 million people have lost their lives (UN, 2020). The pandemic has also tapered the global economy by an...
Conservation Agriculture can Aid Recovery from COVID-19 in the Indo-Gangetic Plains
IFSD has just launched a new Policy Insight paper the topic of conservation agriculture and how it can aid in the COVID-19 recovery process in the Indo-Gangetic Plains. The authors argue that conservation agriculture benefits to makers, communities and...
Reducing gender inequality in urban water management in Nepal
In towns and cities at the foot of the Himalayas, women play a vital role in supplying water and its management, but ironically, their voices are rarely heard in water management decisions. Despite 33 percent seats reserved for women in local level water management...
Is Gender transformative change possible?
Despite significant international development efforts to promote gender equality, achievements remain limited. Dr Basundhara Bhattarai, Senior Gender and Development Specialist at IFSD, presents a critical analysis of the problem and offers some actionable solutions...
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