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IBADAN and MEXICO CITY, Feb 17 2021 (IPS) - 17 February – African smallholder farmers have no choice but to adapt to climate change: 2020 was the second hottest year on record, while prolonged droughts and explosive floods are directly threatening the livelihoods of millions. By the 2030s, lack of rainfall and rising temperatures could render 40 percent of Africa’s maize-growing area unsuitable…

Without nature’s help, “we will not thrive or even survive”, the UN chief said on Thursday, launching a major report on the environment. “For too long, we have been waging a senseless and suicidal war on nature. The result is three interlinked environmental crises”, Secretary-General António Guterres told a virtual press briefing on the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report, Making Peace…

The Shebelle, one of Somalia’s two major rivers, went completely dry for the first time in 2017. That same year, the number of new people displaced in Somalia because of disasters shot up to 899,000, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Despite different mitigation measures, the trend continues to move largely upward. Concern Worldwide removed silt from one…

Reporting that hunger has increased almost fourfold in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua in the past two years, the World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday warned that 1.7 million people are in the ‘emergency’ category of food insecurity, calling for $47.3 million now, to provide urgent food assistance. According to WFP, the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic and…

In Cambodia, the Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development (LASED) projects secured about 16,000 hectares of land for landless and small landholder families across five provinces. Over 5,000 households have received direct benefits, including land titles. The projects will phase out by ensuring the sustainability of achievements and improving family incomes.…

In 2013, the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) profoundly changed international labor statistics standards: One important change (among many) is that going forward, only work done for the purpose of pay or profit is considered employment. Producing outputs only or mainly intended for one’s own or family consumption, common among smallholder farmers in many developing…