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From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Price fluctuations happen as a result of the storage process from seasonal harvests and the working of the markets and the supply chain, as these harvests need to be… -
From SDG Academy on 18 August, 2020
In the first video of his series Freedom Now: The Economic and Political Alternative, philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger argues that traditional progressive politics… -
From SDG Academy on 6 August, 2019
Sustainable Development means precisely the interconnection of economic, social, and environmental objectives. Therefore, it is important to try to achieve all of the… -
From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019
Ecosystem services can be divided among those that are provisioning; those that produce market goods that are consumed by human beings; those that regulate the provision… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter discusses food security and how food security is measured, who is food insecure and where they are located, as well as progress to date on addressing the… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Three mechanisms that are important for terminating transformative changes are the need for more coordinated action, the need for good policies that enable change, and… -
From SDG Academy on 18 August, 2020
In the third video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger explains that traditional means of promoting economic… -
From SDG Academy on 18 August, 2020
In the second video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger lays out the three axis points of his progressive alternative: democratization… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
The post-2015 agenda for sustainable development for the first time has agriculture play a significant role. Sustainable development can be traced to sustainable forest… -
From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019
Terrestrial ecosystems are important for social and economic reasons through both their products – such as timber, fruits, etc. – and their services –… -
From SDG Academy on 18 August, 2020
In the ninth video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger lays out his four-part vision of a truly progressive approach to… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
The first big challenge that the world suffers from is malnutrition, which means that people eat a diet that contains too few or too many nutrients: at this point, 800… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter discusses the drivers that impact food systems and health and nutrition outcomes, first focusing on natural resource capital, and then climate change,… -
From SDG Academy on 18 August, 2020
In the fourth video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger outlines the characteristics of the knowledge economy and discusses what… -
From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019
Agroforestry systems (SAF) can take various forms and combinations of species and strategies of cultivation of the species of interest, but in general is a form of land… -
From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019
This chapter provides an overview of the nine targets associated with SDG 15, which relates to terrestrial ecosystems or Life on Land. The targets focus on: preserving…