Last week in Rome, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced that there are almost 870 million people chronically undernourished in the world. Controversially though, the FAO also...
The UN Climate Talks in Durban will begin tomorrow. Here's a little inspiration to keep your spirits up for the tough weeks that lie ahead. Action supporters in Greece helped make this...
Bangladesh has reduced poverty and improved living standards significantly in recent years despite the global economic recession and natural calamities. In spite of rising standards of living, some...
Standing on the edge of a paddy field covered in water which reflected the grey sky above, creating a single frame, Geeta completed the picture story for my assignment to get success stories of women...
To address both the need for more finance for agriculture and the climate crisis, the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), among others, are promoting selling of carbon offset...
In Gambella village, the first person I meet is Koye Sersera. Koye is 71 years old and lives with her husband and five grandchildren. The family share a tiny one-roomed hut, made from...
Naiya recently relocated his family (including his seven children) to Daaba, north of Isiolo, because he heard people there were receiving food rations. The family walked for 15 days. We can’t be...
This ActionAid International policy brief highlights six reasons why soil carbon markets will not work for smallholders.
There is no soil carbon market currently
If there were a market, it...
Ruchi Tripathi, Head of Right to Food, and Celso Marcatto, Right to Food Global Programme Coordinator, recently visited Palamau, one of the poorest areas in India. Check out her memo from the field.[...
