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The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World and the Elsevier Foundation celebrated the 2023 OWSD-EF Awards for Women Scientists, with researchers from Benin, Bolivia, Guatemala, Palestine, Mongolia, South Africa and Sri Lanka. The winners' research explores a wide range of ways to combat food insecurity, from crop disease resilience to improved child nutrition, and indigenous…

Devex takes a look at some of the global development organizations and networks helping to advance women’s rights and empowerment.

Issue 596: A new analysis suggests that while generally effective, flood and drought risk management strategies are usually not designed to cope with unprecedented events – which may increase with climate change. Previous analysis looking at global trends from 1980-2010 suggests that adaptation efforts have led to decreasing vulnerability to the human and economic effects of floods…

Economic shocks grew as driver of food crises; war in Ukraine contributed to acute food and nutrition insecurity. 03/05/2023 Rome/New York/Washington, D.C. - The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing acute hunger and…

LISBON, May 10 (Reuters) - Drought spread across almost all of mainland Portugal during an unusually hot and dry April, the meteorology agency IPMA said on Wednesday, and officials have requested aid from Brussels for the struggling farming sector. Around 90% of mainland Portugal is suffering from drought, with severe drought alone affecting one-fifth of its territory, twice as much…

In the years it strikes, the band of warm ocean water known as El Niño that spans from South America to Asia triggers far-reaching weather changes resulting in devastating floods, crop-killing droughts, plummeting fish populations, and an uptick in tropical diseases. With El Niño projected to return this year, Dartmouth researchers report in the journal Science that the financial…