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The private sector has a key role to play in lifting countries out of both the COVID-19 and climate crises, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told international business leaders on Monday. “We need you more than ever to help us change course, end fragility, avert climate catastrophe and build the equitable and sustainable future we want and need”, he said in a speech to the…

Journalists have a crucial role to play in creating inspirational and transformative narratives relating to the world’s complex water conflicts, specialists say in the first episode of a three-part podcast series on water conflict and cooperation. In this episode, special guests discuss their research on the role of the media in water diplomacy, which features in a new expert guide…

The Regreening Africa project is restoring 1 million hectares in Mali, Niger, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia and Somalia, with funding from the European Union. The project recently developed a Regreening Africa App for use on mobile phones. Betty Rabar explains its uses and the enthusiastic reception from development workers, in the European Union’s international development and cooperation site.…

Traditional African vegetables have high potential to contribute to healthy diets and climate resilience in subSaharan African food systems. However, their genetic resources are likely at threat because they are underutilized and under the radar of agricultural research. This paper aims to contribute to a conservation agenda for traditional African vegetables by examining the geographical…

Across much of the world, agricultural systems, ecosystem health, landscape integrity, and rural resource-based livelihoods are in crisis, with major planetary boundaries having already been transgressed. Over the next few decades, agriculture and food systems likely will be forced to go through an extraordinary transition to meet food production in a more sustainable way. This…

Climate emergency threatens to push 130 million people into extreme poverty by 2030, yet local people are often left out of decisions and funding; momentum emerges to shift status quo Forty governments, leading global institutions and local and international NGOs, including the United Kingdom and Irish governments, UN Development Programme, Climate Investment Funds, Zurich Investment…