Can Obama tackle climate change?
It's here and its impacts are being felt today ? but can Obama push forward action on it?
What lessons can Sandy teach?
One is that we need to measure resilience to climate change
Agriculture and Nutrition: Investing in a Healthier Future
A discussion of how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Agricultural Development and Nutrition programs are working together to help smallholder farmers, including female farmers, combat hunger and malnutrition.
Subsidies Without a Value Chain Formula is a Flop
Investing money on farm subsidies for smallholder farmers may not have any meaningful impact
Women in the field
MAG Cambodia Programme Officer Claire O'Reilly writes about the special challenges faced by female deminers.
The world needs a US President who will take climate change seriously
It is high time that the international community, especially the rich countries, go beyond the phase of interminable debate and complacency to begin an era of radical change aimed at the preservation of our planet
What would Obama or Romney mean for Doha?
The U.S. election outcome is likely to impact the next climate negotiations, one negotiator says
Millet for our bread in 2050?
With harvests of wheat, rice and maize expected to plunge as a result of climate change, could drought- and heat-tolerant crops be an answer?
Equality Now demands amendment of all laws relating to nationality which discriminate against women
Equality Now releasing report highlighting countries where significant discrimination remains in the law
Malala and the Invisible Girls
Malala Yousafzai is one of the world's most visible teenage girls. Shot in Pakistan for daring to fight for every girl's right to education, the 15 year old is now recovering in a Birmingham hospital. Her country's interior minister says she is a "symbol of courage and determination" against "extremist ideology". Around the world, people are declaring I am Malala and backing a petition by the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, supporting Malala's drive for education for all. However, on a recent visit to Pakistan, I found many teenage girls in the opposite position - hidden from public view, almost invisible.