The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Royal Thai Government today reaffirmed their close partnership to prevent the global acceleration of soil erosion, which threatens food security worldwide.  Soil erosion is major threat to global agriculture and food production. If action isn’t taken to stop the present rate […]

Source: Médecins Sans Frontières Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo In the early morning of 3 December, a group of people armed with sticks and machetes entered Biakato health centre and attempted to enter the MSF compound in Biakato Mines. On 4 December 2019, Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) took the […]

Continued exposure to air pollution has been linked to a whole host of diseases from pulmonary ailments to brain-related ones in people of all ages. It follows then that reducing exposure to toxic air should have health benefits. And indeed that is what the authors of a new study have […]

Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Brazil, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Some 21,000 Venezuelans in the country immediately benefited from the decision on Thursday by Brazil’s National Committee for Refugees (CONARE). This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text […]

Event Post December 6, 2019 2019 ReSAKSS Annual Conference: Gender equality in rural Africa, from commitments to outcomes Emily Myers Tsitsi Makombe “Minding the cracks” that emerge when gender is not considered in rural programs.