Country: Kenya Source: United Nations Population Fund Women/girls who usually fetch water, are at risk to sexual exploitation, violence and abuse on their search for boreholes. The situation is highly dangerous as hostilities mount due to scarce resources.

A barefoot young man in rolled-up jeans clutches a laptop as he slogs through a narrow muddy aisle between rice fields on a drizzling late September afternoon. He’s rushing to help a farm couple who are facing trouble with their ducks in a coastal village in southern Bangladesh. The middle-aged […]

An exciting find in Hawaii is bringing renewed hope that a plant species once thought extinct in the wild, but now under careful cultivation in a secret location, will spark continued efforts to protect biodiversity on the islands. The flowering Delissea argutidentata plant, native to Hawaii, was last seen growing in […]

Country: Uganda Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has launched an Emergency Appeal to scale up these activities—targeting 2.7 million people.

Project seen as ‘great achievement’ for HE in Africa (University World News)  Oct 14, 2022 Jul 13, 2022 pfowlkes Fri, 10/14/2022 – 12:49 Project seen as ‘great achievement’ for HE in Africa (University World News)  Project seen as ‘great achievement’ for HE in Africa (University World News)  Africa In the […]

Zam, 57, sits at her kitchen table looking out the window at her orchard of four dozen apple trees. In the past eight years she has sold only two crates (100 kilogrammes) of the fruit because of poor harvests. She turned her attention to vegetables instead but the production was […]

Country: Syrian Arab Republic Source: Médecins Sans Frontières In 2021, WASH operations represented only 4% of the entire humanitarian response budget for the whole of Syria, which is less than one-third of what was spent in 2020 for the same activities.

Across Asia, borders are opening and quarantine measures are lifting as even the last few countries clinging to Covid restrictions embrace a return to travel.

International Rural Women’s Day 2022: Reaching women farmers with information on climate smart agriculture Oct 13, 2022 jmcquaid Thu, 10/13/2022 – 10:19 International Rural Women’s Day 2022: Reaching women farmers with information on climate smart agriculture Damilola Aladesuru Claudia Ringler Future food production depends on addressing gender. IFPRI Blog : […]