As many nations look towards large-scale infrastructure investment as a catalyst for economic growth, a group of scientists from the Development Corridors Partnership (DCP) warn about the unwelcome environmental degradation that can take place if transport infrastructure such as railways and roads are not well planned for environmental sustainability. In a new paper published in …
22nd January 2021 As we enter a last-chance decade for tackling the global nature crisis, scientists have outlined a new framework for implementing global commitments to restoring nature, The Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy, or Four Steps for the Earth. This comes as 2021 marks the beginning of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration as well …
Authors: Kate Elizabeth Gannon, Laetitia Pettinotti, Declan Conway, Swenja Surminski, Edward Ndilhana, and Tobias Nyumba (Originally published on 14th December, 2020, as a post on https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/imaginaries-of-development-corridors-delivering-the-sustainable-development-goals-through-development-corridors-in-east-africa/. See the full working paper here.) Development corridors are focal points for national and international development investment in East Africa, and national governments are directing their limited public sector …
As the Development Corridors Partnership (DCP) nears its final year (2021), over 40 researchers and project partners from 11 institutions in Kenya, Tanzania, China and the UK met for an internal mid-term conference, held semi-virtually from 22nd – 25th of Sep 2020. This global virtual meeting replaced DCP’s initial plan to host an in-person Midterm …
By Declan Conway and Christian Siderius (Originally published on 25th August, 2020, as a Commentary on https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/quantifying-and-visualising-inter-dependencies-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/ . The second paper discussed in this commentary, based on Tanzania’s Rufiji Basin, is a part of ongoing Development Corridors Partnership work. The publication can be found here) We often promote coordination as a goal, particularly in relation …
During July and August 2020, the value of the Development Corridors Partnership as a growing network, resource and driver of real practical change gained momentum. As part of the process of updating their existing Minerals and Mining Act (2007), the Federal Government of Nigeria recently sought technical assistance from the UK government. Of particular interest …
By Sicily Fiennes (Intern/UNEP-WCMC) UNEP-WCMC is leading the process to map and visualise research taking place across 4 country teams, within the GCRF Development Corridors Partnership. We are critically considering the proposed outputs and planning plausible ways that these could lead to outcomes and longer-term impacts. By taking this approach, we hope to better fill …
This World Environment Day, the theme is to “Act for Nature”. What does this call to action mean for scientific research? It is clear that the production of knowledge alone, while critically important, may not always be enough to make impact. Increasingly, a scientist’s call to action includes engaging at the ‘science-policy interface’. That is, …
To gain insight into the web of complexities that surround mega-development projects, Dr. Jessica Thorn from the University of York coordinated a Participatory Scenario Planning Workshop in Kisumu in August 2019. The complex social-ecological system of Lake Victoria Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa, the second largest freshwater lake in the world, and …
In a brief released today, the UMFULA research team of the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) programme outline their innovative approach to assess climate resilience in the Rufiji River Basin in Tanzania. The basin is the largest in Tanzania. It supplies water for over 4.5 million people, irrigation and livestock, and generates around 80% of …
