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Trade and Environment Review 2013: Make Agriculture truly sustainable now for Food Security in an changing Climate - Wake up before it is too late

Ulrich Hoffmann, Anita Idel, Tobias Reichert, Hans R. Herren et al. UNCTAD (2013)

- Key Development Challenges of a fundamental Transformation of Agriculture - Livestock Production: A Climate Change and Food Security Hot Spot - The Role of Research and Technology and Extension Services - The Role of Changes in Land Use - The Importance of International ... more

Fair Trade and Catholic Social Teaching

CRS Fair Trade (2014) C1

The impact on trade and development of the war in Ukraine

UNCTAD (2022) C1

UNCTAD has prepared a rapid assessment of the impact of war in Ukraine on trade and development, and interrelated issues in the areas of finance, technology, investment and sustainable development. The results confirm a rapidly worsening outlook fo ... more

Tobacco Agriculture and Trade Namibia

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

Country Profile

Guidelines for Addressing Disease Risks in Wildlife Trade

World Organisation for Animal Health WOAH (2024) CC

For thousands of years, humans have been using wildlife for commercial and subsistence purposes. Wildlife trade takes place at local, national and international levels, with different forms of wildlife, such as live animals, partly processed product ... s and finished products. Wildlife is a vital source of safe and nutritious food, clothing, medicine, and other products, in addition to having religious and cultural value. Wildlife trade also contributes to livelihoods, income generation and overall economic development. However, wildlife trade can have detrimental effects on species conservation, depleting natural resources, impoverishing biodiversity and degrading ecosystems (Morton et al., 2021). Wildlife trade, whether legal or illegal, regulated or unregulated, can pose threats to animal health and welfare. It also presents opportunities for zoonotic pathogens to spill over between wildlife and domestic animals, and for diseases to emerge with serious consequences for public or animal health and profound economic impacts (IPBES, 2020; Swift et al., 2007; Smith et al., 2009; Gortazar et al., 2014; Stephen, 2021; Stephen et al., 2022; FAO, 2020). The risk of pathogen spillover and disease emergence is amplified with increased interaction between humans, wildlife and domestic animals. The risk of pathogen spillover has also been exacerbated by climate change, intensified agriculture and livestock production, deforestation, and other land-use changes. Wildlife trade is also a risk to ecosystem biodiversity via the introduction of invasive species (Wikramanayake et al., 2021). Therefore, increased effort must be put into understanding the potential consequences of the wildlife trade, mapping and analysing the adjacent risks, and implementing strategies to manage those risks. Reducing wildlife-trade risks not only helps to limit disease but also minimises the negative effects of invasive species. Between 1960 and 2021, invasive alien species caused estimated cumulative damage of around 116 billion euros across 39 countries in the European Union alone, despite strict import regulations (Haubrock et al., 2021). The effect of invasive species is extremely apparent. more

The Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products: an overview

WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2018) C_WHO

The new treaty aims at eliminating all forms of illicit trade in tobacco products. It provides tools for preventing illicit trade by securing the supply chain, including by establishing an internati ... more

An agroecological Europe by 2050: What impact on land use, trade and global food security?

Schiavo M., Le Mouël C., Poux X., et. al. (2021) C2

This Study presents the key results of a research that analyses the implications of an ambitious agroecological transition across Europe, following the TYFA scenario. Published in 2018, what it proposes by 2050 is fully aligned with the objectives that the European Farm to Fork and Biodiversity stra ... more

Health Professionals Guide to the ATT - Promoting Signature, Ratification, and Implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) (2013)

This guide highlights actions health professionals can take to make the Arms Trade Treaty effective.

A rapid review of evidence on the managing the risk of disease emergence in the wildlife trade

World Animal Health Organization (OIE) (2021) C_WHO

A rapid review of evidence on the managing the risk of disease emergence in the wildlife trade - World Animal Health Organization (OIE)

Least Developed Countries Report 2022: The low-carbon transition and its daunting implications for structural transformation

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Reliefweb OCHA Services (2022) CC

UNCTAD sets out actions to support least developed countries in the global low-carbon transition New report says COP27 is an opportunity to accelerate action to achieve mutually beneficial climate and development goals in the world's most vulnerable countries.

Global Trends and Prospects

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2023) CC

According to most recent data, the world economy grew by 3.1 per cent in 2022. To many, the rebound suggested that a soft landing was possible in 2023, and that the key problems of the year 2022 – rising prices, supply-chain disruptions and recession risks – have been addressed. As a result, t ... more

Improving Tuberculosis Case Detection

Stop TB Partnership to reach; Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (2017) C2

A compendium of TB REACH case studies, lessons learned and a monitoring and evaluation framework. Accessed November 2017.

Report: Baseline Study for Rural and Remote Education Initiative for Papuan Provinces - Report of Findings

Myriad Research; UNICEF; Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2016)

Statement by H.E. Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič, Permanent Observerof the Holy See to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva

Jurkovič, I. Vatican (2021) CC

at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Council 23 Febur. 2021

Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 Policy Briefs FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (2020) CC

Policy briefs The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting not only food trade, food supply chains and markets but also people’s lives, livelihoods and nutrition. This collection of policy briefs presents a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the p ... more

Nature, biodiversity and health: an overview of interconnections

World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (2021) C_WHO

Urbanization, land use, global trade and industrialization have led to profound and negative impacts on nature, biodiversity and ecosystems across the world. The ongoing depletion of natural resources not only afects environmental conditions but als ... more

Hungary: The impact of Food Insecurity on Gender-Based Violence in the Ukraine Refugee Response

CARE International; VOICE (2022) C2

The number of people facing acute food insecurity1 is growing at an alarming rate in the European Union (EU) Member States of Central Eastern Europe. COVID-19 and the resulting disruption to global markets, trade, and food supply chains have negativ ... more

Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE)

World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

Public health, innovation, intellectual property and trade

Disability inclusive employment in urban Malawi: A multi-perspective interview study

Remnant, J.; Wånggren, L.; Huque, S. et al. Journal of International Development (2022) CC

The paper presents interview data from Malawian government representatives, trade unionists, employers and people with disabilities from the country's largest cities Lilongwe and Blantyre. Findings relate to the gap between the discourse of employer ... more