Climate
Empowered Women at the forefront of Carbon Market
Tasneem Balasinorwala with Diya Deb Are we missing a golden opportunity in carbon offset projects? Enhancing the role of women towards social and political […]
Tag: livelihood
Biodiversity
Overfishing in The Gambia Devastates Local Communities and Violates Human Rights
The study reveals a significant decline in fish populations, pushing them towards unsustainable levels posing a severe threat to the rich biodiversity of marine […]
Climate
<strong>This Far…Go Further: Women and the Carbon Market!</strong>
Tasneem Balasinorwala and Diya Deb As we make our way one step at a time to make carbon markets and carbon projects the domain […]
Aid
Drought threatens the livelihoods of 7 million farmers in Afghanistan
The long-term outlook is challenging as farmers and herders, affected by drought, typically need three to five years to recover fully The Food and […]
Aid
Amidst COVID, UK Government proposes 80 percent aid cut for water and sanitation sector
The reported cuts will end all future spending on water, sanitation and hygiene by the UK in countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi, which […]
Aid
Is 30 percent land converted to protected areas the biggest land grab in history?
Three hundred million people stand to lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples, according to Survival International World leaders […]
COVID-19
Impacts of COVID-19: Food Security under threat in Indonesia
Kurnia Dwi Agustina Studies coming out on the impact of COVID-19 point that food security is under an immense threat and farmers are on […]
Biodiversity
Global fisheries and aquaculture hard hit by COVID-19 pandemic
Global fisheries and aquaculture have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and could face further disruption in 2021 as lockdowns affect supply and […]
Biodiversity
South Korea’s finance of ‘green’ palm oil drives destruction in Indonesia
Seulki Lee A growing grassroots movement aims to stop the government bankrolling palm oil companies linked to forest destruction and human rights abuses In […]
Biodiversity
South Asia could see 40 million climate migrants by 2030
Soumya Sarkar Unless South Asian countries start working quickly, and in cooperation, they could soon be flooded by tens of millions of climate migrants. […]
Sustainable Business
No country has achieved gender equality in last 25 years
Less than 50% of working-age women are in the labour market, a figure that has barely changed over the last quarter of a century, […]
Education
South-South Community Learning: Rajasthan to Mali
Naresh Kumar Nain, Sanjay Sharma Taking the successful models and lessons of women’s empowerment and rural economic development from the SHGs in India and applying […]