DDRN group: Poverty and Environment

The working group has existed since 2003 as an informal group, meeting 3-4 times a year. The main activities of the working group are currently focused on arranging a public seminar series on poverty-environment issues. 

The objectives are to:
• Contribute to an improved understanding of the poverty-environment relationship with specific focus upon natural resources
• Explore ways to improve policy and practice in the field of rural poverty reduction and natural resource management
• Address how a concern for poverty-environment linkages can be safeguarded and mainstreamed under a sector and programme-based approach in ODA.

Expected outcome:
- A well-established seminar series on poverty-environment relationships
- Better informed research, policy and practice with respect to poverty and environment interactions.

6 seminars were held at Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) during the period April - December 2008. A report on all 6 seminars can be downloaded here.

2 out of 3 planned seminars in 2009 have been held at Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS).
You may follow the links for more information on the first and second seminar.

For an overveiw of past and planned seminars, please follow this link.