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Women are more likely to experience food insecurity than men, and the pandemic has exacerbated this divide. Women continue to shoulder more household responsibilities, but also now bear the burden of increased poverty and health risks. Part of our Focus on: Gender Data This focus area, powered by UN Women, highlights how data is being used to inform policy and advocacy to advance…

This past year has been a lesson in the challenges of predicting. For the global development community, the best laid plans of the so-called “Decade of Action” had to be shelved as the coronavirus pandemic swamped every other issue. Maybe this year will be no different. Nonetheless, it’s worth it to at least try to look ahead and see what may be coming in 2021 for global development leaders…

As climate extremes and human practices degrade land in the Sahel, donors boost backing for a major initiative to halt desertification that is lagging behind its goals By Thin Lei Win ROME, Jan 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Growing up in a village in Burkina Faso, Georges Bazongo remembers his parents and neighbours cutting down trees each year to expand their farmland so they…

11 January 2021, source edie newsroom The Prince of Wales is hoping to get major businesses to commit to "accelerating and mainstreaming sustainability", by signing a new charter on the green recovery. Developed after the prince’s call for a “marshall-like plan for nature, people and planet” at Climate Week NYC in September 2020, the so-called “Terra Carta” outlines ten areas of…

11 January 2021, source edie newsroom Prime Minister Boris Johnson has outlined plans to allocate at least £3bn of the international climate finance that the UK will spend through to 2026 on nature-based solutions. The figure is more than a quarter of the UK’s existing commitments within the five-year timeframe, which total £11.6bn. Finance will be provided through bodies including BEIS,…

11 January 2021, source edie newsroom Governments collectively funnel more than $1trn of subsidies into businesses that harm nature, including fossil fuel majors, mining giants and industrial agriculture, every year.That is according to new research from think-tank Global Canopy, which was set up to prevent the destruction of natural habitats. The organisation’s ‘Little Book of Investing in…