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In Japanese tsunami city, people power turns disaster into opportunity

Disaster recovery – Feb 9, 2017

Ko Kimura prays towards the sea to mourn victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Higashi-matsushima, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, five years on

U.N. launches $291m programme to save lives, build resilience in Haiti

Aid – Feb 9, 2017

via Jamaica Observer

In race to clean energy, emerging nations seize bigger role – World Bank

Energy – Feb 15, 2017

In this 2013 file photo, a boy stands in front of wind turbines at the Ashegoda Wind Farm, near a village in Mekelle, Tigray, 780 km (485 miles) north of Addis Ababa.

Unleash the entrepreneur in every small farmer - new U.N. agency chief

Agriculture – Feb 15, 2017

In this file 2011 photo, former Prime Minister of Togo Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, in New York.

While you were partying, he was giving Nepal earthquake survivors the gift of light

Aid – Feb 21, 2017

via Vulcan Post

Nepal quake survivors rebuild lives with organic farming

Farming – Feb 17, 2017

Woman working on her field in Kavre, Nepal, November 26, 2016.

After Fukushima disaster, Japanese mothers don lab coats to measure radiation

Earthquake – Mar 9, 2017

Volunteer Ai Kimura works in the Mothers’ Radiation Lab, Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, February 2017.

U.N. pushes 'smart crops' as rice alternative to tackle hunger in Asia

Food – Mar 14, 2017

A farmer plants saplings in a rice field in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan, July 8, 2015.

Despite growth, one in 10 Asians live in extreme poverty

Poverty – Mar 29, 2017

Women wrap themselves in blankets in a government shelter for homeless people to escape the cold in Delhi, India

Shocked by Indian quake damage, ex-bricklayer makes disaster-proof buildings her mission

Housing – Apr 4, 2017

A builder stands in June 2016 next to a house, damaged in the April 2015 earthquake, partway through the retrofitting process in Nepal.

As cities surge, careful planning needed for the 'invisible' poor

Urban planning – Apr 5, 2017

Local shoe menders work along a street in Ebutte meta district in Lagos,Nigeria July 28, 2016.

Latin America's poor need more help to tackle Zika: UN

Disease control – Apr 6, 2017

Raquel Barbosa bathes her daughter Heloisa, who has a twin sister named Heloa, both 10 months old and both born with microcephaly, at her house in Areia, Paraiba state, Brazil

Attract youth to farming in Nigeria to fight extremism, says campaigner

Farming – Apr 7, 2017

Kola Masha, Managing Director of Babban Gona and winner of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

Hundreds of millions of poor menaced by 'silent killer': heat

Heat – Apr 12, 2017

A worker takes a bath from the water of a bore pump on a hot summer day in Gurgaon, India, May 29, 2015.

China looks to insurance to stem mounting disaster loss

Insurance – Apr 21, 2017

A woman cries as she cannot find her 4-year-old daughter and husband on top of the ruins of a destroyed school in earthquake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province, China in this May 17, 2008 file photo.

Climate change offers huge investment opportunity, say experts

Climate finance – Apr 24, 2017

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (R) listens to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim at the "Unlocking Financing for Climate Action session" during the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington

To end poverty, Latin America must invest in equal, green growth: UN

Economic development – Apr 27, 2017

Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), delivers a speech during a news conference as part of the 36th session of ECLAC in Mexico City, in this May 23, 2016 archive photo.

Fulbright Forum: Building Resilience Around Natural Disasters

Event

Apr 25, 2018

23:59 UTC

Wellington , New Zealand

WHO to help bring cheap biosimilar cancer drugs to poor

Pharmaceuticals – May 4, 2017

via Reuters

Pieces to solve the poverty puzzle include culture and environment

Development – May 5, 2017

via Rethink