Life on Land
Irregular migration
Main Title:
Migration in Seychelles: A Country Profile 2024
Nov 2025
Chapter
Irregular migration is not a key concept used in Seychelles.
Circular Agriculture for Sustainable Rural Development
Jun 2021
Working Paper
The strengthening of institutions and incentives such as water user associations and secure water and tenure rights, along with enhanced international cooperation, can spur greater application of circular approaches in agriculture.
Investing in the Future of Rural Non-farm Economies
Oct 2021
Working Paper
Development strategies that focus solely on urban development and leave rural communities behind are not adequate to overcome the development challenges we face. The in-situ development of rural economies and societies must be a central objective of development if nations are to achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda. A precondition for substantial rural transformation and growth is higher agricultural productivity and the subsequent reallocation of productive resources towards expanding the non-agricultural rural sector. A dynamic local rural economy can benefit from and complement urban growth, alleviate poverty, and reduce migratory pressures on growing cities. Country examples show that it is possible to accelerate in-situ development by investing in infrastructure, offering educational opportunities, expanding financial services, and speeding up the adoption of technologies in food and non-food producing sectors. These investments help create a virtuous circle of agricultural productivity and non-agricultural development.
Population, Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainable Development
Jun 2021
Working Paper
Population lies at the heart of sustainable development, including efforts to create sustainable and equitable food systems. Population trends, including population growth, urbanization, changing age distributions, changes in health and mortality, rural-urban migration and international migration, are closely linked to many aspects of food systems. The Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) emphasizes individual rights and human development, especially for women and girls, as well as sustainable consumption and production. An evidence-based understanding of the interrelationships between demographic trends and food systems, food security and nutrition, as well as relevant policy responses, will be an essential input to broader international discussions of hunger, food security, nutrition and food systems in 2021, including at the high-level political forum on sustainable development, the United Nations Food Systems Summit and the Nutrition for Growth Summit.
Wildfires – a Growing Concern for Sustainable Development
Oct 2021
Working Paper
This policy brief reviews trends and impacts of wildfires on sustainable development, in all its environmental, economic and social dimensions. It provides an analysis of the key drivers of wildfires and proposes measures to reduce the risk and impacts of future wildfires.
Old Age Inequality Begins at Birth
Jan 2023
Working Paper
Old age disadvantage begins at birth. Much of the inequality between older persons has its roots in early life conditions. Without policies to prevent it, disadvantages reinforce one another through peoples’ lives, leading to large disparities among older adults. A life course perspective on ageing is critical to improving people’s health and well-being throughout the life course into old age. The onset and severity of disability – affecting either physical or mental health – profoundly impacts the lives of people and their families and incurs large economic and societal costs in terms of health care and caregiving needs. Disability is a key outcome of unequal ageing as it has been tied to both early life conditions, such as childhood poverty and later life risk factors, including health behaviors, occupation and chronic stress. Examining physical functional limitations as a measure of disability lends itself to cross-national comparisons of inequalities in health in old age as it measures difficulties that people face in carrying out tasks in their daily living, and does not depend on access to health care and medical professionals for diagnosis, as is the case for examining differences in the prevalence of diseases, such as diabetes or cardiovascular disease.
Mapping Essential Life Support Areas to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Apr 2024
Working Paper
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030) is a guiding star for countries, establishing a common vision for human and planetary well-being. However, approximately half of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets are severely or moderately off track for achievement by 2030, in part because decision-making around the SDGs is often undertaken by just a few governmental ministries. While the Agenda 2030 declares that the SDGs are “integrated and indivisible”, goals related to the environment often take a back seat to economic goals during national implementation. The UNDP led project ‘Mapping Nature for People and Planet’ demonstrates how countries can apply integrated spatial planning to facilitate inclusive decision-making for policy targets around the SDGs, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and other global conventions and frameworks. The project supports countries in developing a singular map of Essential Life Support Areas (ELSAs) that shows pathways for action to achieve multiple targets at once, including those at the nexus of nature, climate and sustainable development. At the base of the map are the country’s most pressing policy targets and current spatial data layers, hand-selected by national experts. This policy brief captures insights from this project to help policymakers use integrated spatial planning to support the achievement of SDGs, with a focus on those that are the most dependent on nature.
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