Photo: Pixabay/griti  Birds come in a variety of shapes and sizes to the delight of ornithologists everywhere. Yet those with rare and unusual trails are especially feeling the brunt of habitat loss, poaching and climate change and it is likely as a result of exactly those special traits, scientists say. […]

What is thought to be the world’s largest remaining stockpile of the now banned pesticide Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), left in the heart of Bangladesh’s second biggest city for 37 years, is set to finally leave for France for incineration at a specialist facility. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United […]

The U.S. Treasury Department released a preliminary draft of Notice 2022-61 (the Notice) on 29 November 2022 and the final on 30 November 2022. Taxpayers now have 59 days to begin construction on qualified projects without causing those projects to be subject to the new prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements. […]

Country: Kenya Source: World Food Programme Some 535,000 people facing food scarcity across 12 counties will receive monthly food and cash support. Another 356,400 under-fives as well as 213,000 pregnant or breastfeeding mothers will benefit.

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu and Hon Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, the Prime Minister of Samoa, today called on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to leverage the power of innovation to regain their momentum toward achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals […]

This is the final part of our series of alerts on the EU’s new Market in Crypto-assets Regulation (MiCA). In this part, we will discuss the authorisation regime under MiCA for specified crypto-asset services which is largely based on the existing regulatory regime under the EU Market in Financial Instruments […]

How mobile technologies are reducing gender inequities in Tanzania’s agrifood system Nov 29, 2022 jmcquaid Tue, 11/29/2022 – 10:00 How mobile technologies are reducing gender inequities in Tanzania’s agrifood system Leveraging expanding cell phone use. IFPRI Blog : Guest Post Open Access | CC-BY-4.0 Nov 29, 2022

Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Uganda Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Uganda was already hosting more than 1.5 million refugees, but this year, another 130,000 refugees from DRC and South Sudan have arrived, putting further pressure on an overstretched aid response.