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15 October 2020
Latin America and the Caribbean
Un informe de FAO señala que vieron reducidos sus ingresos e intensificada su carga laboral durante la pandemia, momento en que fueron "desproporcionadamente" golpeadas por la crisis económica y sanitaria.
Por Marianela Mayer
15 October 2020
Africa
Global
15 October 2020
Mozambique
This is the story of how dozens of communities in Mozambique are mapping and documenting their own land rights. "A New Hope" is the winner of the Land Portal's Second Data Story Contest, and is authored by the team at Terra Firma Mozambique.
7 October 2020
Global
The impact of COVID-19 has been devastating around the world. In response, countries have put in place emergency measures to help their citizens and private firms weather the pandemic and recovery programs to boost the economy once the lockdown restrictions can ease.
Most developing economies do not have the fiscal space to implement broad recovery programs, as the revenues from key economic sectors have collapsed, expenditures to respond to the pandemic have escalated rapidly, and capital outflows have increased.
7 October 2020
India
Global
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world abruptly, affecting nearly all of humanity with breath-taking speed.
14 September 2020
Latin America and the Caribbean
Central America
Nicaragua
17 September 2020
Latin America and the Caribbean
South America
Brazil
6 October 2020
Africa
How to get tree planting — and growing — right
This article was originally published by Forests News
30 September 2020
Central America
Panama
South America
15 September 2020
Africa
Uganda
Cameroon
South-Eastern Asia
Cambodia
Since last year, 35,000 people in Uganda’s Kiryandongo district were forced from their lands to make way for large-scale farming, including at gunpoint and by a sugar firm with international backing.
11 September 2020
Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
Asia
Global
The global conservation community now faces the added challenge of Covid-19 on top of a longstanding set of complex conservation, sustainability, and development challenges. In the wake of this pandemic, return to business as usual is not a viable option. The existing systems and structures upon which conservation is based must evolve. Climate change, biodiversity conservation, and poverty elimination efforts have been further complicated by Covid-19, with the brunt of the pandemic borne most acutely by the poorest and most vulnerable.
1 September 2020
Mongolia
In central Mongolia, the summer is warm and soft rain falls on the steppes. For herders like Baasandorj, it is a busy time of year, filled with combing sheep’s wool, milking cows and making dairy products for the winter.