“Better to be resilient”: How can drought-parched Somalia break out of endless crisis?
Boosting drought resilience, in part by focusing on local priorities, could cut long-term need for humanitarian aid, experts say. LAURIE GOERING, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Poor harvests: How drought and hunger is driving Nepal farmers to India, defying COVID ban
AADESH SUBEDI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how an unusually dry monsoon has led some farmers to seek work in India – despite coronavirus-related travel bans…
Somalia races to save livelihoods as new locust generation spawns
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Somalia is deploying surveillance teams and specialised vehicles to prevent desert locust swarms ravaging crops and pastures, and destroying the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people, United Nations and government officials said on Monday. The worst outbreak in a generation has seen hungry swarms – some the size of cities […]
Rise in rural poverty reverses gains in Latin America – UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation Rural poverty has risen for the first time in a decade in Latin America and the Caribbean, reversing earlier gains, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said on Wednesday. Two million people joined the ranks of the region’s rural poor between 2014 and 2016, taking the total to nearly half the rural […]