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Mangroves and mapping help Mozambique tackle climate change

Environment & Sustainability – Apr 27, 2018

A fisherman cleans his boat beneath Maputo's skyline, in this picture taken August 15, 2015

Migrant workers sent $256 billion home to Asia-Pacific last year - UN

Remittances – May 7, 2018

ARCHIVE PHOTO: An employee checks dollar bills at a money changer in Manila March 28, 2012

Growth in aid funding slows for second year

Aid – Jun 19, 2018

Women hold food aid distributed by humanitarian institutions in Afrin, Syria March 20, 2018.

Microfinance could help African cities solve housing crisis - experts

Housing – Jul 12, 2018

A resident reacts as he attempts to extinguish a fire that broke out at the Kijiji slums in the Southlands estate of Nairobi, Kenya, January 28, 2018.

UBS puts Indian girls into school - and makes a profit

Education – Jul 13, 2018

A schoolgirl sits on the doorstep of a house as she waits to go to school at Jodhpur in Rajasthan, April 6, 2015.

Are the Caribbean's wealthy new citizens a lifeline or a liability?

Caribbean – Jul 19, 2018

People lounge at Mount Cinnamon Resort's beach club on Grand Anse beach in St. George's, the capital of the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, June 1, 2018.

Campaigners and K-pop fans turn to crowdfunding for conservation

Environmental preservation – Aug 8, 2018

Archive Photo: A man reads a newspaper in front of a fence that depicts a forest to conceal construction work going on in the background in central Seoul March 6, 2013.

Colombian city helps young shun 'life choice' of gang violence

Crime – Sep 27, 2018

Participants of the TIP gang prevention programme (middle Camilo in grey shirt, middle left Fares), in Las Minas neighbourhood in Cali, Colombia, September 13, 2018.

Risk Finance for the Developing World

Event

Dec 12, 2018

11:35 UTC

London, United Kingdom

UCL Finance Event

The billionaire philanthropists intent on using satellites to save the world

Data analysis – Feb 27, 2017

Satellite antennas are pictured at the technical center of Signalhorn company in Leuk, Switzerland, in this 2016 archive photo.

Drones help communities map flood risk in Dar es Salaam slums

Tanzania – Jan 10, 2017

A community member in Dar es Salaam carries a drone for mapping.

BLOG: How do economies bounce back after a disaster?

Business – Mar 1, 2017

Woman carrying water in Woukpokpoe village, Benin.

"Voices of Youth" mapping risk around the globe

Mapping – Mar 16, 2017

via Environment & Disaster Management

Newest technologies becoming weapons in fight for land rights

Communication – Mar 20, 2017

Visitors look at a drone at the booth of Chinese company Yuneec at the world's biggest computer and software fair, CeBit, in Hanover, Germany March 20, 2017.

Colombia's City of Women rebuilds homes and hopes

Women – Mar 27, 2017

(R to L) Maritza Marimon, Everlides Almanza and Ana Luz Ortega, members of the League of Displaced Women who built Colombia’s City of Women, have a meeting at the community centre in the Municipality of Turbaco, near the city of Cartagena in northern Colombia, February 13, 2017. TRF/Anastasia Moloney

High-res mapping and locals join forces in India to restore deforested land

Forests – Mar 28, 2017

A man walks under a barricade pole installed to check passing vehicles by Indian forest officials at the remote district of Kandhamal in the eastern Indian state of Orissa in this 2012 archive photo.

Brazil's land titles programme improves Amazon forest protection - research

Forests – Apr 5, 2017

Sawmills that process illegally logged trees from the Amazon rainforest are seen near Rio Pardo, in the district of Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, in this 2015 archive photo.

New study on resilience helps governments prevent disaster-related loss

data – Apr 7, 2017

via News Wise

The Preston model: UK takes lessons in recovery from rust-belt Cleveland

Finance – Apr 18, 2017

via The Guardian

App helps Kenya’s small farmers tackle pests, map crops

Farming – Apr 21, 2017

Farmer weighing his produce in Meru County, Kenya, December 1, 2015. TRF/Caroline Wambui