Aid
27 countries heading for COVID-19-driven food crises
No world region is immune, from Afghanistan and Bangladesh in Asia, to Haiti, Venezuela and Central America, to Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria in […]
Category: Sustainable Development
Aid
Fossil fuels rank high in G20’s Covid-19 recovery plans
Fermín Koop G20 governments have allocated at least US$151 billion to fossil fuels since the pandemic started, largely overlooking renewables Most of the world’s […]
Aid
Reforms key to NGOs weathering Coronavirus financial crisis
Casey Kelso True internal change will be tested soon as NGOs face potential massive layoffs. Well-managed NGOs are more likely to survive, while those […]
Biodiversity
Outrage as ‘Factory School’ for 30,000 children to host World Congress of Anthropology
Hundreds of Indigenous leaders, activists and anthropologists have denounced plans to hold the 2023 World Congress of Anthropology at the world’s largest “Factory School,” […]
Biodiversity
Timber hunger in the American Housing Sector
Mike Roddy Americans consume 23% of the world’s wood products, with 4% of global population. This is fueled by subsidized timber, entrenched in a […]
Aid
COVID brings Unprecedented Global Education Emergency
Almost 10 Million Children May Never Return to School Following COVID-19 Lockdown Deep budget cuts to education and rising poverty caused by the COVID-19 […]
COVID-19
As pandemic strips away accumulated inertia of decades, ‘After Coronavirus’ may be a whole brave new world
The coronavirus pandemic, like the World Wars, is a harbinger of revolutionary changes. It is accelerating the destruction of the old, and hastening the […]
Aid
Access to HIV medicines severely impacted by COVID
Seventy-three countries have warned that they are at risk of stock-outs of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to […]
Aid
Why and how to Defund the Police
Jason Kirkpatrick If people in the USA want to support people of color, to create a more just and peaceful country, or just to […]
COVID-19
‘Completely Out of Control’: China Says ‘US Epidemic’ Threat to Rest of the World
In the coming fall and winter, the US epidemic will likely run rampant, and more countries and regions will be forced to suffer because […]
Sustainable Business
Poisons used to make food more beautiful, last longer
Julien Chongwang, Gilbert Nakweya & Ghislaine Deudjui Toxic chemicals are being used by food sellers across Sub-Saharan Africa to improve the look of meat […]
Biodiversity
Covid-19, Climate Change, Poverty and Corruption: Quest for Nature Friendly Lives and Livelihoods
The unique nature of Covid-19 crisis have been blessings to build lives and nature friendly green planet. Strategic policy responses should be designed internalizing […]