Armed with apps and crops, women lead battle to save Senegal's shrinking farmland
Female-led work is vital to rural communities in Senegal - now women are organizing to lead the fight against multinational agribusiness
Protect common land: Indian classical singer makes unusual appeal
As demand for land rises in India to boost growth, common lands are being taken over for industrial and development projects
Surge of African migrants brave Latin America jungle trek for U.S. dream
As Europe tightens its borders, growing surge of people from Africa seek new routes to flee poverty, war and persecution
Used to whizzing bullets, Kashmir border farmers now hit by drought
“A farmer in our border village knows exactly what to do in the face of exploding shells and bullets – but one really doesn’t have any idea how to deal with this drought"
Businesses can unlock $12 trillion via key development goals - Davos study
Businesses have key role to play in ending poverty and protecting the planet, and pressure for them to become responsible social actors is likely to grow
UK climate scientists raise concerns about Trump presidency
British scientists ask their prime minister to press U.S. President-elect Trump to acknowledge climate change risks and support international action to slow global warming
Are fathers getting a raw deal in the workplace, UK inquiry asks
What barriers prevent men from sharing parental duties? Lack of workplace flexibility, attitudes towards paternity leave? How does that affect the gender pay gap?
In northern Afghanistan, bereaved women join fight against Islamic State
"First they killed my brother, then they killed my cousin, my uncle and my brother-in-law," said woman fighter Zarmina. "Now that I have taken up arms, I am going to fight to the death."
Twenty years after Diana campaign, new landmine crisis plagues Iraq and Syria
"The problem is that we're seeing the emergence of a new crisis of a scale that we haven't seen since the 1990s"
Unilever commits to 100 pct recyclable plastic
Unilever will also help create a plastics protocol, to encourage similar moves across its industry