Principled Aid Index 2023: In a weaponised world, smart development power is not dead
A look at the main trends revealed by the updated index, and what to expect from future aid spending.
A look at the main trends revealed by the updated index, and what to expect from future aid spending.
Not only is the world contending with a devastating civilian death toll, but also a battle of narratives – with questions of how this violence is being framed, depicted and portrayed publicly, or the ‘stories’ that are shaping the public’s perception of the conflict.
<p> <p>Shifting cultivation in the Philippines is widely referred to as 'kaingin', but as this paper reported, different communities attached different meanings to the term. The most common local definition was slash-and-burn with no return to forest, and farmers in all areas attributed deforestation to kaingin rather than to commercial logging. Farmers had responded to deforestation by planting or regenerating trees on their lands. The areas with the most secure land tenure had the highest diversity of tree species on farms.</p> </p>