Seed banks help Zimbabwe’s farmers tackle climate change
7 November 2017 Solutions and Innovations
“Seed security is food security” is something of a ...
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In the eye of the storm: small island states call for action at climate change summit
7 November 2017 Environment and Disasters
Salome Raqiyawa has witnessed three life-changing calamities in a single year...
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Oil-rich yet on edge in Turkana
6 November 2017 Environment and Disasters
Rebecca Ekale doesn’t believe anything good can come from the black gold bonanza that will bring untold riches to arid Turkana, the poorest county ...
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Libyan migrant “prisons”, climate change inequality, and evidence-based aid: The Cheat Sheet
3 November 2017 Aid and Policy
Every week, IRIN’s team of specialist editors scans the humanitarian horizon to curate a reading list on important and unfolding trends and events ...
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How will China’s ambitious new Silk Road impact climate change?
31 October 2017 Environment and Disasters
China is pushing the largest economic development project the world has ever seen...
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Dominica's devastation and recovery in pictures
30 October 2017 Environment and Disasters
The destruction Hurricane Maria unleashed on the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica on the 19th of September, 2017 was absolute...
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The Catch-22 delaying the reconstruction of hurricane-hit Barbuda
26 October 2017 Environment and Disasters
“I'm a bit nervous,” says Juleen Punter, a 29-year-old librarian, fidg...
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Pastoralism and its future
24 October 2017 Aid and Policy
In dryland areas across the world, tens of millions of people raise domesticated animals on open rangeland...
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Why can’t booming Ethiopia handle this year’s drought?
19 October 2017 Aid and Policy
Ethiopia can’t seem to escape the blight of drought, no matter how hard it tries...
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Exodus from hurricane-hit Dominica as recovery remains elusive
18 October 2017 Environment and Disasters
One fifth of the entire population of Dominica has left the island in the month since Hurricane Maria, IRIN has learned...
