Funding injection needed to stop poor farmers’ climate pain spreading
RomeThomson Reuters Foundation A doubling of international funding for agricultural science is needed to help half a billion small farmers cope with climate change – or the world risks mass migration and widespread instability, said the head of a major farm research network. Investment is “woefully short” of the amounts required for farmers to adapt […]
Colombian cities gather green speed with electric buses
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Buses belching black clouds of smoke in Colombia’s city streets could gradually become a thing of the past as two major cities in the South American nation launch fleets of electric buses to curb air pollution and planet-warming carbon emissions. Cali, Colombia’s third-largest city, introduced the country’s first fleet of electric […]
ON THE SCREEN: ‘DOWNTON ABBEY’ ONE FOR THE FANS
DAVID ADAMS watches the film of the celebrated TV series…
Confined, beaten and denied leave – but not seen as a slave in India
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Tens of thousands of slavery survivors in India who were confined, abused and exploited at work are denied compensation because officials are often ignorant of the law – with police sending 60 workers they rescued home empty-handed this week. Police in the western state of Gujarat who freed 94 workers – […]