Research & Publications
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Biofuelling the global food crisis: why the EU must act at the G20EU biofuel mandates to 2020 will directly affect world prices of key agricultural commodities, according to a new report commissioned by ActionAid. While consumers around the world will see some increases in their food related expenditure, people living in developing countries will suffer the greatest impact. By ActionAid |
01/06/2012 | 386.36 KB |
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Shifting away from conventional biofuels: sustainable alternatives for the use of biomass in the UK transport sector
Land is a precious and finite resource. But great strain is being placed on land through the use of current generation biofuels (wheat, maize etc), biomass for heat and power generation and through other energy crops. Sustainable advanced bioenergy feedstocks from UK sources of wastes and residues on the other hand do not use land directly. In the main, these bioenergy feedstocks are municipal wastes and residues from agricultural activities. By ActionAid |
15/05/2013 | 309.02 KB | |
A level playing field? The need for non-G20 participation in the BEPS process
The OECD and the Working Group chairs (France, Germany the UK and the USA) must ensure that non-G20 economies are able to participate fully in any re-write of the international tax rules within the BEPS process. By ActionAid |
02/05/2013 | 238.58 KB | |
Fuelling Hunger
Amount of food crops burnt by richest nations as biofuels could feed half the world’s hungriest people. New data reveals that nearly nine billion litres of biofuels are used annually to fuel cars in the world’s wealthiest countries. This equates to the yearly amount of food needed to feed half of the world’s 870 million people who live in hunger. By ActionAid |
01/05/2013 | 272.54 KB | |
Bringing taxation into the post-2015 development framework
Significant new finance will be needed to realise the welcome ambition of the post-2015 development process. While aid will remain crucial for the foreseeable future, additional alternative financing sources must be a feature of the future development financing framework. By ActionAid |
25/04/2013 | 117.35 KB | |
Within our reach – gender equality and women’s empowerment post 2015
Gender inequality is a global challenge of huge proportions. Around the world the prospects and life chances of millions of women and girls are stunted because of widespread discrimination and inequalities based on gender. By ActionAid |
24/04/2013 | 389.15 KB | |
Enough Food IF - executive summary
There is enough food in the world to feed everyone, yet one in eight women, men and children go to bed hungry every night. The need for UK action on global hunger. By ActionAid |
07/03/2013 | 2.92 MB | |
Enough Food IF - the report
The need for UK action on global hunger By ActionAid |
07/03/2013 | 3.91 MB | |
Women and the City
ActionAid is working in different countries to make cities safe for women and girls through its Safe Cities Initiative.This initiative is founded on the concept of right to the city. The right to the city is the right of all city inhabitants, especially poor people, to have equitable access to all that a city has to offer and also to have the right to change their city in ways that they see fit. By ActionAid |
21/02/2013 | 3.09 MB | |
Sweet Nothings
An investigation into how Associated British Foods group (ABF), owner of Silver Spoon sugar, Ryvita and Primark, is dodging its tax bill in Zambia. By ActionAid |
14/02/2013 | 1.99 MB | |
Women and economic transformation post 2015
Putting women at the centre of the post 2015 economic transformation agenda By Clare Coffey |
13/02/2013 | 158 KB |