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    What role will ordinary people play in energy systems of the future? IIED and Hivos asked leading energy thinkers for their views which we present in this paper.

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    Workers’ pay on Kenyan flower farms needs to double or even triple to attain the level of a living wage. But besides benefiting workers, is higher pay also better for the businesses? Partly yes, research suggests. But higher costs are unavoidable. So who should foot the bill? There’s only one answer to that as far as the rose growers are concerned. “If consumers want to see higher wages, they should be prepared to pay more for a bunch of roses.”

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    Sumba is one of many thousands of unknown islands in the Indonesian archipelago. It has beautiful beaches and pristine mountains, but also poverty-stricken inhabitants with no prospects of economic or social development. Until, that is, Hivos put the island on the map in 2011 in an ambitious experiment: Iconic Island Sumba, aiming for 100% renewable […]

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    Development aid organisation Hivos’s Power of the Fair Trade Flower publicity campaign last autumn turned the spotlights on horticultural production in Africa. More particularly it shed light on the plight of women workers, who account for the majority of the sector’s workforce. In this special edition, P+ describes ‘The journey of a rose’.