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Do migrants willingly choose to flee their homes, or is migration the only option available? There is no clear, one-size-fits-all explanation for a decision to migrate — a choice that will be made today by many people worldwide, and by an ever-rising number in years to come because of a lack of access to water, climate disasters, a health crisis and other problems. Data are scarce on…

ERD (Environment Research and Development) planted 5,000 trees in five schools in Garoua, an arid city in northern Cameroon. In the process, the organization trained 2,500 students and 278 adults in the sustainable management of green spaces. A GEF-funded project to combat desertification in the northern part of Cameroon. Desert landscapes have given way to greenery in the public…

Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. It is caused primarily by human activities and climatic variations. Desertification does not refer to the expansion of existing deserts. It occurs because dryland ecosystems, which cover over one third of the world's land area, are extremely vulnerable to overexploitation and inappropriate land use. Poverty,…

GENEVA (ILO News) – In many countries, income inequality has risen steeply since the 1980s, with adverse social and economic consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic now cruelly highlights those inequalities – from catching the virus, to staying alive, to coping with its dramatic economic consequences. Some groups, such as migrant workers and workers in the informal economy, are…

A handful of countries are hoarding food items to ensure supplies for their population as the virus crisis deepens. The export curbs could prove especially harmful for poorer nations that survive on imports. Business Will coronavirus spark a wave of food nationalism? A handful of countries are hoarding food items to ensure supplies for their population as the virus…

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates talks with “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason about why we need “strong isolation measures on a countrywide basis” to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, how it could be “years” before the U.S. economy gets back to where it was before and why he thinks “for the next one, we will be far more ready than we were for this one.