Our Work

Between 2010 and 2011, the Rural and Sustainable Development team will focus on a number of areas:

• Addressing Vulnerability and Resilience in policy, examining likages between poverty and gender and climate change, and the social dimensions of climate change are very important for addressing climate change and disaster risk reduction but remain very recent explorations in research and development work. Much remains to be done to move from concepts to action. Under this topic, the IPC-IG will examine governance issues in this context as well as specific programming approaches which may advance work at the global and national level, from broad commitments to concrete actions.
  


• The component “Poverty and Environment Nexus – at the core of Sustainable Development and Rural Development” identifies policy innovations that can strengthen results in both poverty reduction and environmental management. One of the areas in which this is a stark concern is in agriculture..  IPC-IG’s Rural and Sustainable Development team in analyzing the inclusion of family-farmers in the Brazilian case of the National Biodiesel Program - PNPB.


• Attaining food security implies the double challenge of ensuring proper food supply as well as broad access to food.  Ensuring that all people, and especially the most vulnerable, have access to nutritious and easily accessible provisions reinforces the need for socially inclusive approaches. In this context, innovative programs in different parts of the world link support to smallholder agriculture to food access initiatives. The RandSD team is interested in better understanding these policy approaches and lessons learned.


• The Rural and Sustainable Development Team will also contribute to the Inclusive Growth Research area, through support on research and synthesis papers on socially-inclusive responses to the economic crisis. A specific focus will be on the policy environments and policy space in Small Island Developing States. The team will collaborate with the Inclusive Development Cluster of the Poverty Group.
  

This agenda specifically seeks to identify best practices in developing countries and use these to promote South-South learning and the application of results for inclusive development.