Five who make a difference: green pursuits earn innovators forest hero awards
Five forest heroes recognised at the UN Forum on Forests take different approaches in the fight to save forests.
A second chance for Ethiopia's child brides
CARE program offers young wives path to the education they crave
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Sustainable agricultural intensification: Tackling food insecurity in a resource-scarce world
Sustainable intensification is a way of producing more food with less impact on the environment, but is often misunderstood, new report says
Moving beyond the rhetoric
For many reporters, the challenge at any international gathering is to get beyond the rhetoric and statistics and make it relevant for the reader, the listener or the viewer back home.
Chad: Growing alarm over Central African Republic refugee influx
Recent political turmoil in the Central African Republic (CAR) has led to a rising number of refugees fleeing conflict into neighbouring Chad.
A young mother struggling in Jordan as a Syrian refugee
''I came to Jordan, with my husband, 5 months ago. He went back 12 days ago to bring his mother over to live with us but for the last three days I haven't heard anything from him''
Syria-Jordan Refugee Crisis: Ali and Rima
?If we knew this would happen to us we wouldn't have brought so many children into the world." These are the words of Rima a Syrian refugee living in Amman.