The French development agency, Agence Française de Développement, has signed a €300 million loan to the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development to help small-scale farmers in high-risk countries build their resilience to shocks and increase their productivity.
Since President Bolsonaro took office, his administration has undermined Brazil’s environment agencies and sought to weaken restrictions on protected areas and Indigenous territories.
A year after Cyclone Idai destroyed crops, ruined lives and left millions in Zimbabwe without food, the country is facing its worst drought in four decades.
The United Nations' Rome-based agencies dedicated to food and agriculture have called for bolder action to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls in the agricultural sector and beyond.
Rich polluting countries such as Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and US are short-changing poor countries by billions of dollars they need to cut emissions and adapt to the climate crisis, says Oxfam.
A Christian Aid report shows that climate change is having a disproportionate impact on the food systems of the countries least responsible for causing the climate crisis.
The legal challenge calls for a judge to annul three mining concessions, claiming they are no longer valid following the popular vote to prohibit mining.
Czech citizens are calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, following a recent decision from the European Commission that he has significant conflicts of interest related to his private businesses.