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- Publication 16 August 2021 Brazil’s Soft-Power Strategy: The Political Aspirations of South–South Development Cooperation By trading upon the principles of South-South cooperation, Brazil is widely viewed as having gained a positive image worldwide. Brazil’s South-South development cooperation was one of the foreign policy instruments it used to raise this profile. However, studies of the generation of soft power are still lacking in the international relations literature,and where empirical research exists it focuses more on the results of soft power strategies than on how soft power is created. Therefore,this…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Back to basics - the school lunch Purpose The effort to develop social life cycle assessment (Social LCA) along the same principles and procedural steps as LCA has met serious challenges when characterizing social impacts as originating from product life cycles and attributing them to unit processes. This article puts the resulting life cycle CSR and its focus on the production phase on hold. It suggests a research design to support consumers in choosing between, e.g. alternative school lunch scenarios, according to their…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Sustaining Energy Access: Lessons from Energy Plus Approach and Productive Use in developing countries This publication summarizes the report: ‘Energy Plus Approach: Case studies in developing countries’ by GNESD member Centres of Excellence. This summary for policymakers (SPM) and other reports can be freely obtained from the GNESD Secretariat and also from the website: www.gnesd.org
- Publication 16 August 2021 Analysis of national Jatropha biodiesel programme in Senegal Growing Jatropha curcas for energy applications has been established through several initiatives in Senegal. The government of Senegal launched the National Jatropha Programme (NJP) in 2006 with the goal of planting 321,000 ha of Jatropha curcas, with an average of 1000 hectares (ha) in each rural locality. This paper reviews existing policies with relevance to Jatropha curcas L production in Senegal. It assesses the NJP implementation, identifies potential gaps and provides recommendations…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Carbono Cero América Latina - Una vía para la descarbonización neta de la economía regional para mediados de este siglo El objetivo del análisis presentado en este informe esidentificar una vía para la descarbonización completa de la economía regional de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) para mediados de este siglo. Esto se logra a través de una revisión de acciones sectoriales específicas dentro de un contexto tecnológico y económico previsible. El análisis se lleva a cabo en un momento de considerable discusión del problema del cambio climático a nivel mundial y después de una década de notable progreso…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Lignocellulosic residues for production of electricity, biogas or second generation biofuel: A case study of technical and sustainable potential of rice straw in Mali Biomass from agricultural residues, especially lignocellulosic biomass, is not only seen as a sustainable biomass source for the production of electricity, but increasingly as a resource for the production of biogas and second generation biofuel in developing countries. Based on empirical research in an irrigated rice-growing area, Office du Niger, in Mali, this article builds scenarios for the sustainable potential of rice straw. The paper concludes that there is great uncertainty regarding…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Energy and low carbon development efforts in Ghana: institutional arrangements, initiatives, challenges and the way forward Over the years, Ghana has invested considerable effort and resources together with international partners to develop the energy sector and to mainstream energy low carbon pathways into national development plans. Low carbon development (LCD) provides a good opportunity, of not only building upon earlier energy and climate change local processes and structures but also help to mainstream low carbon agenda in economic activities and national development plans. For this to work however, require…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Roots and Tuber Crops Value Chains for Poverty Alleviation and Food Security in Ghana: Potentials and Challenges