Date: 23 June 2016
Source: iied
Seven research projects will receive funding to study how to assist vulnerable urban groups facing humanitarian crises, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has announced
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 27 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundations
In drought-hit Marathwada, the poorest region in India's western Maharashtra state, there is an unusually high number of single women. Some were widowed after their farmer husbands committed suicide because of debt; others were abandoned because they didn't produce a son, while some were left behind when their husbands left to search for work.
By: Anthony Langat
Date: 24 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Kenya's Borana pastoralists are losing less livestock to drought, thanks to the revival of a centuries old traditional grazing management system, said the Adaptation Consortium initiative, which aims to support climate change adaptation in Kenya.
By: Katy Migiro
Date: 23 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Millions of widows across Africa are left destitute after being evicted from their homes and are too poor or uneducated to seek legal redress, campaigners say.
By: Sybille de La Hamaide
Date: 23 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
France's National Assembly on Wednesday scrapped plans for an additional tax on palm oil, which had raised an outcry in major producing countries, after the government said it would propose a new tax scheme for vegetable oils used in food.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: 28 June 2016
Source: Thmoson Reuters Foundation
Construction permits for the Tabajos dam are currently suspended due to concerns over indigenous land rights
By: Brittany Patterson
Date: 21 June 2016
Source: Scientific American
In the lush green rainforest of the Ecuadorean Amazon, members of the Kichwa indigenous group gather well before dawn to drink guayusa tea.
By: Alisa Tang
Date: 24 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
(Updates date of officials' visit in graf 33 and upcoming court verdict in graf 34, year of coup in graf 31.)
By: Mike Gaworecki
Date: 24 June 2016
Source: Mongabay.com
