International
Colombia: As Climate Changes, Colombia’s Small Coffee Farmers Pay the Price
Jul 11, 2019
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Richard Schiffman, Yale Environment 360
In the last 18 months, Colombia has lost nearly 100,000 acres of coffee plantations, more than 4 percent of the land under coffee cultivation, according…
Afghanistan: UN-backed ‘Local Peace Initiative’ Culminates in Pact to End Longstanding Land Dispute in Kunar
Jul 10, 2019
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UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
A UN-backed ‘local peace initiative’ has helped two tribes reach agreement on ending a 40-year conflict over land in the eastern province of Kunar. For…
Afghanistan: UN Lab in Gurugram Digitising Afghan Land Records
Jul 10, 2019
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Sonali Verma, Hindustan Times
To digitise land records in the war-torn cities of Afghanistan, a team of experts in the city is currently designing blockchain-based software at the Technology…
Kenya: How Women in Kenya Mobilised for Peace after Surviving Violence
Jul 10, 2019
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Sierra Leone Times
Women are rarely represented adequately at peace negotiations yet they make up half the population of any country in conflict or at war. This remains the case…
Syria: How Has War Affected Syria's Oil and Gas Sector?
Jul 10, 2019
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Naharnet
Syria's eight-year war has seen the Damascus regime lose control of key oil fields and caused state hydrocarbon revenues to plummet by billions of dollars.…
Colombia: Drip Irrigation, Sun and Solar Do 'God's Work' and a Colombian Desert Blooms
Jul 10, 2019
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Thin Lei Win, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Home to Colombia's largest indigenous group, the matrilineal Wayuu, and neglected by successive governments, the arid La Guajira is a region of barren landscapes, intense heat,…
Myanmar: Dams on Myanmar's Irrawaddy River Could Fuel More Conflicts in the Country
Jul 10, 2019
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Julian Kirchherr, Conversation
Myanmar makes many headlines these days. While most of the focus has been on the Rohingya issue, the country is also heading towards an important…
Gov’t, Int’l Partners Endorse Liberia’s Action Plan for Women Empowerment
Jul 10, 2019
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Alline Dunbar, FrontPage Africa
Several officials of the Liberian government and international partners on Tuesday, July 9, gathered at the Mamba Point Hotel in Monrovia to endorse and validate…
Climate Change: Pentagon Pushed to Put Price Tag on Climate Vulnerability
Jul 10, 2019
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Dean Scott, Bloomberg Environment
The U.S. military already knows it faces increasing vulnerabilities from a warming planet, from Virginia naval installations facing more frequent flooding to Air Force bases…
South Sudan: The Plight of South Sudanese Sexual Assault Survivors
Jul 10, 2019
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Osman Mohamed Osman, Aljazeera
Dadaab, Kenya - Teresa* (not her real name) gathers her three children outside her shanty, which was provided by aid agencies in Dadaab, a sprawling refugee camp…
Afghanistan: UN-backed ‘Local Peace Initiative’ Culminates in Pact to End Longstanding Land Dispute in Kunar
Jul 10, 2019
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UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
A UN-backed ‘local peace initiative’ has helped two tribes reach agreement on ending a 40-year conflict over land in the eastern province of Kunar. For…
Iraq: Any Disruption to Oil Exports through Hormuz Will Be 'Major Obstacle' to Iraq's Economy - PM
Jul 9, 2019
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Reuters
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday any disruption to oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz will be a “major obstacle” for…
Digital Tracking of Environmental Risks Offers Insights to Humanitarian Actors
Jul 9, 2019
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UN Environment
By the end of this day many people will have made life-changing decisions, relying on their best guess or their instinct. Some will yield great…
Liberia: Land Rights Education Will Empower Women, Girls
Jul 9, 2019
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Alvin Worzi, Observer
The Land Rights Act (LRA), which was passed into law in 2018 by members of the 54th Legislature, will serve as an impetus that will…
Veterans and Farmers Can Make an Ideal Team
Jul 9, 2019
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HudsonValley360
Imagine you’re an Army veteran returning from tours of duty in Afghanistan relatively unscathed physically but burdened by post-traumatic stress disorder, and you have an…
Afghanistan: Afghan Women Entrepreneurs to Receive 5 Percent Quota to Strengthen Economic Participation
Jul 8, 2019
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Xinhua
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has announced to reserve a minimum quota of 5 percent for women entrepreneurs in a bid to improve their participation…
DRC: Congo’s Swing Producers Turn to Copper after Cobalt Meltdown
Jul 8, 2019
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William Clowes, Bloomberg
Production of hand-dug cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo is poised to drop sharply after prices tumbled, prompting many of the country’s thousands of…
Afghanistan/Pakistan: CCP Urges Tariff Rationalization to Control Tea Smuggling
Jul 8, 2019
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Sohail Sarfraz, Business Recorder
The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has strongly recommended Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and Ministry of Commerce to rationalize taxes including customs tariff on…
Colombia: Trees and Cows Offer Path to Recovery in Colombia
Jul 8, 2019
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World Bank
The Mainstreaming Sustainable Cattle Ranching project, now in its tenth year, has helped 4,100 family farms in five distinct zones of Colombia adopt “silvopastoral” techniques…
Myanmar: Calls to Legalise Wildcat Oil-Well Operators
Jul 8, 2019
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Khin Su Wai, Myanmar Times
There is a need to legalise the activities of the wildcat prospectors whose hand-dug oil wells dot the land in Magwe Region, in central Myanmar.…
US Sets up Commission for Human Rights Advice
Jul 8, 2019
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Deutsche Welle
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced a new commission to review the idea of human rights and how it shapes US foreign policy. Critics…
Bangladesh/Myanmar: Flood Submerges Rohingya Camp on Borders
Jul 6, 2019
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Cox's Bazar
A Rohingya camp on the borderline between Bangladesh and Myanmar was flooded by sudden onrush of hilly water on Thursday. Makeshift shades at a camp…
Libiera: Report Implicates Gov’t Officials in Massive Land Grabs
Jul 5, 2019
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William Q. Harmon, Observer
The impoverished state of Bomi County is likely to worsen as many subsistent farmers are at the verge of losing their residential and farm lands…
Ukraine: Fighting in Ukraine Threatens Water Supply for 3.2 Million
Jul 4, 2019
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Radina Gigova, CNN
A recent escalation of fighting in eastern Ukraine is threatening access to safe water and sanitation for more than 3 million people, including 500,000 children,…
Afghanistan: Herat’s Opium Fields Make Way for Saffron
Jul 4, 2019
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Stefanie Glinski, National
In the past five years, Ali Bahib has helped dozens of Afghan poppy farmers make the switch to saffron. The agricultural engineer and manager of…
Afghanistan: 'We're in Crisis': The High Price of Deforestation in Afghanistan
Jul 4, 2019
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Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska, Al Jazeera
Wood has long been one of Afghanistan's main sources of energy, which over the years has had numerous consequences - deforestation and pollution reportedly kill…
DRC: Armed Forces Called to Defend Glencore Mine in Congo
Jul 4, 2019
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William Clowes and Tiago Ramos Alfaro, Bloomberg
Glencore Plc said armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo are in the area around the operations of its Kamoto Copper Co., after dozens…
Ukraine: Millions of People Risk Being Cut off from Safe Water as Hostilities Escalate in Eastern Ukraine – UNICEF
Jul 4, 2019
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UNICEF
An escalation in fighting is threatening access to safe water and sanitation for 3.2 million people, including 500,000 children, as well as the safety of…
Afghanistan: Improved Varieties of Trees Enable Higher Yields and Incomes
Jul 3, 2019
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USAID
While Afghanistan is known for its delicious apricots, Afghan apricot varieties and production techniques typically result in low yields and farm incomes. One problem is…
DRC: DR Congo Army Will Remove 2,000 Illegal Miners from Glencore Site
Jul 2, 2019
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Al Jazeera
Illegal miners at a copper and cobalt mine run by Glencore in the Democratic Republic of the Congo defied a deadline to vacate the site on…