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The 2017 Commodities and Development Report investigates the transmission channels through which commodity dependence affects micro- and macro-level development outcomes, examines long-term commodity...

Smallholder farmers constitute the largest contingent of the poor and yet they produce more than 80 per cent of the world's food, in value terms. Though there are marked differences by country and...

The Commodities and Development Report 2012, released during the 13th session of UNCTAD, shows that developing countries suffer from high prices for commodities and food, in particular Least Developed...

This report highlights pathways to economic diversification in commodity-dependent developing countries in an environment where decarbonization of the global economy has become the overarching...

Commodity dependence is a trap: once a country is commodity dependent, it is difficult to develop a productive sector out of commodities and export non-commodity products. This publication argues that...

This report explores key aspects of the two-way relationship between commodities and climate change, discusses the concept of natural resource conversion and explores its application to renewable and...

This publication explores the impact of recent changes in the world economy on progress in the transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies in the post-UNCED setting and endeavours...

A new publication in this vital and timely series. It deals concisely with the implications of technological and regulatory trends for the developing world, explicitly setting forth a number of main...

An examination of the opportunities created in the context of a changing global environment. By analyzing the specific features of the process of TCB in new technologies, policy implications and...

The spectrum of the debate on environmentally sound technologies is as lively as the broader debate on environment and development. Amidst the spectrum is the realism that a world where three fourths...