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Violence, Climate Shocks, and Hunger Push The Sahel To The Brink of Collapse

By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Over the past few years,...

Central Asia Bets on a New Water–Land Pact to Survive Environmental Degradation

By Kizito Makoye SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (IPS) - As ministers, diplomats and development...

Africa’s Water is its Future. Who will Govern it?

By Cristina Duarte UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Africa holds 9 per cent...

Make Last Sprint Towards 2030 a ‘Turning Point’ for Nature Finance, Eighth GEF Assembly Told

By Cecilia Russell SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (IPS) - “While pressures on public budgets...

Urban Dwellers in Southern Africa Turn to Backyard Farming

By Jeffrey Moyo HARARE, Zimbabwe (IDN) — At unoccupied swathes of land behind houses in Bloomingdale, a medium-income suburb in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, numerous...

A New Integrated Financing Facility to Help Achieve UN’s Development Goals by 2030

By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which primarily include the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2030,...

Street Vending: Covid Seems to Have Killed a Bangkok Icon

By Pattama Vilailert BANGKOK (IDN) — Street vendors have been an iconic attraction for millions of tourists that visited Bangkok each year before the COVID-19...

Decentralisation Vital to Achieving the UN’s Global Goals

Viewpoint by Yossef Ben-Meir The writer is a former Peace Corps Volunteer and president of the High Atlas Foundation. MARRAKECH (IDN) — The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals...

African Free Trade Area Expected to Lift Millions out of Extreme Poverty and Boost Growth

By Busani Bafana BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (IDN) — The long-awaited African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)—set to be the world’s biggest free-trade zone by size—which entered into...

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Central Asia Bets on a New Water–Land Pact to Survive Environmental Degradation

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Make Last Sprint Towards 2030 a ‘Turning Point’ for Nature Finance, Eighth GEF Assembly Told

By Cecilia Russell SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (IPS) - “While pressures on public budgets...

Filipino Indigenous Leader Takes Ancient Wisdom to the Global Stage

By Kizito Makoye SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan(IPS) - Every year, when dark clouds gather...
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