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.

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In 2019 several meteorological records were broken. Extreme heat swept through large parts of Europe, India and elsewhere last summer. Nor were these heatwaves mere anomalies, according to the World Meterological Organization. According to the WMO, , a United Nations agency, this decade has been the hottest on record so […]

Research Post December 4, 2019 Is research capturing the multiple, overlapping climate risks farmers face? Alex De Pinto Adam Komarek From extreme weather to political instability, the risks in agriculture compound and reinforce one another.

Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: World Donations will go towards providing refugees with shelter, food, clean water, health-care, education and legal protection. The amount is equivalent to 9% of the total funds needed in 2020. At an annual pledging conference in Geneva today, donor governments pledged US$1.2 billion […]