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Faces Incitement Charges Under Laws That Muzzle Speech Mauritanian authorities have detained an activist since January 24, 2018, apparently over social media posts decrying discrimination, […]
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Jindra Cekan Local development partners? Check. Long-term transparent and accountable investments through them as “local solutions” partners? Not so much. While President Obama and former United […]
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Crispin Maslog A dengue vaccine fiasco leaves Filipinos wary of immunisation drives When the Philippines launched its dengue vaccination programme on 4 April 2016, […]
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Andrew Slaughter and Sukhmani Mantel Some arid countries have been forced to develop novel technologies and strategies to survive extremely dry conditions. Australia and Israel, for […]
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Stephen Howes ODE itself is an integration success story. It wasn’t abolished when transferred from AusAID to DFAT. It wasn’t merged with some other […]
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Soumya Sarkar, Juhi Chaudhary & Sapna Gopal Allocations for renewable energy and environment in India’s federal budget have left both the clean energy sector […]
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Kendra R Chamberlain An assessment concept called the home ignition zone (HIZ) helps homeowners determine how vulnerable their home is to wildfire by looking […]
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Hans Nicholas Jong A court in Indonesia has sentenced an anti-mine activist to 10 months in jail on a rarely used charge of promoting […]
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Jindra Cekan Admitting failure, posting failure reports are awfully rare in international development, but how bad is it? There are so many things I love […]
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is seeking $7.5 million to roll out a critically needed emergency livestock vaccination campaign in South Sudan. […]
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Cities need to increase treatment, recycling and reuse of wastewater to reduce the amount of untreated wastewater discharged into freshwater bodies by at least […]
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John Vidal By 2100, the world’s population centers will have shifted to Asia and Africa with only 14 of the 101 largest cities then […]
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Dasharathi Behera The Green College in Odisha is leading by example in the field of rural innovation and sustainable livelihoods. Sustainable living is at […]
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Richest 1 percent bagged 82 percent of wealth created last year – poorest half of humanity got nothing Eighty two percent of the wealth […]
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In a significant development for global fisheries, blockchain technology is now being used to improve tuna traceability to help stop illegal and unsustainable fishing […]
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S. Singh Methane produced by India’s livestock population, considered the world’s largest, can significantly raise global temperatures, says a new study designed to help predict climate change linked […]
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Kamran Reza Chowdhury A multitude of factors are contributing to increasingly polluted air in Bangladesh, but so far not much is being done about […]
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Frances Moore Lappé There is ample evidence that an alternative approach—organic agriculture, or more broadly “agroecology”—is actually the only way to ensure that all people have […]
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Carrie Feibel Fifty-one years ago in San Francisco, a small community clinic opened its doors. Its mission: to treat many of the young people […]
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ASM Shahabuddin, Rajat Das Gupta and Yameen Mazumder The newborn health programme in Bangladesh is considered in the region as a good example of […]
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Subhashree Sahoo Stepping into the exclusive male preserve of masonry, Damayanti Patra of rural Ganjam has shown exemplary determination to overcome personal tragedy and […]
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Andrew King Overall 2017 will be the warmest non-El Niño year on record globally, and over the past 12 months we have seen plenty […]
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No safe places left for children as they are targeted in their homes, schools and playgrounds, and 2017 was a bad one Children in […]
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Catherine Early Imports of foreign plastic could fall by as much as 80% next year, Catherine Early reports Some are stockpiling it, some are sending it […]
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