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International aid earmarked for saving forests in Brazil and Indonesia dwarfed by billions spent on subsidies for palm oil, soy and beef industries that cause deforestation – new report
News – 30 March 2015

Research Reports and Studies
Establishing a workable follow-up and review process for the Sustainable Development Goals
Research reports and studies, April 2015
Shannon Kindornay and Sarah Twigg
This paper rounds up the current content and politics of the debate on accountability in the post-2015 agenda. http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/9588.pdf

Securing communities: redefining community policing to achieve results
Research reports and studies, April 2015
Lisa Denney
This synthesis paper draws together findings from ODI’s ‘Securing communities’ project, which attempted to map the diversity of practices that fall under the remit of community policing, examine how community policing is shaped in different contexts and probe the plausibility of many of the objectives ascribed to the approach.

Doing legal empowerment differently: learning from pro-poor litigation in Bangladesh
Research reports and studies, March 2015
Tam O’Neil, Craig Valters and Cynthia Farid
This study documents two cases of successful public interest litigation in Bangladesh in order to explore the conditions that favour, and constrain, pro-poor mobilisation. It forms part of ODI’s ongoing efforts to document approaches and ways of working that make a difference in terms of achieving development results.

The rising cost of a healthy diet: Changing relative prices of foods in high-income and emerging economies
Research reports and studies, March 2015
Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats with Euan Han, Satoru Shimokawa, Joel Alberto Vargas Hernández and Rafael Moreira Claro
This report investigates the prices of different foods in some of the rapidly-growing emerging economies, where incomes have risen notably in the last 20 years. We ask what effect this has had on growing rates of overweight and obesity and if policy changes, taxes and subsidies could reverse this trend.

Jobs for the future
Research reports and studies, March 2015
Claudia Pompa
This report deals with perhaps one of the most pressing issues facing employers and employees, students and teachers, politicians and experts today: what and where are tomorrow’s jobs and what skills will they require?