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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

Insurance turns to coral reefs and mangroves as ocean risks surge

Climate change – May 14, 2018

Oliver Lanyon, a senior ranger in the Great Barrier Reef region for the Queenlsand Parks and Wildlife Service, takes photographs and notes during an inspection of the reef's condition in an area called the 'Coral Gardens' located at Lady Elliot Island, 80 kilometers north-east from the town of Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia, June 11, 2015.

From camels to catfish, Algeria boosts fish farming in the Sahara desert

Farming – May 20, 2018

Camels on a 15-hectare farm co-owned by Milouda Mohammed and his brothers in Touggourt, a town in the Sahara, in southern Algeria, April 12, 2018.

Locals pioneer safer fishing alternatives to protect seas off Madagascar

fishing – May 29, 2018

A sea cucumber farmer tends her pen in Tampalove, southern Madagascar, February 19, 2018.

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.

Malnutrition the 'challenge of our time', say award winners

Nutrition – Jun 25, 2018

Yasir Camelo, 5, eats a tropical fruit called "pomarosa" from a tree in front of his house in La Fria, Venezuela, June 1, 2016.

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.

'Insurance gap' threatens disaster-vulnerable poor nations - Lloyd's

Insurance – Oct 22, 2018

Villagers stand on top of tree trunks after floods hit at Muara Saladi village, in Mandailing Natal, North Sumatra province, Indonesia October 13, 2018.

Cities seek cash, tech to activate plans for safer, greener future

100 Resilient Cities – Oct 31, 2018

A girl stands nearby as cable cars pass behind her, at a viewpoint overlooking Medellin, after the city was designated "Innovative City of the Year" by Citi, the Wall Street Journal and the Urban Land Institute, March 1, 2013.

Cacti and credit throw Brazil's drought-parched farmers a lifeline

Climate change adaptation – Dec 17, 2018

Family farmers in northeast Brazil pose in a cactus field they planted to provide fodder for their dairy cattle, in this undated photo

Savings but no title deed? Loans help Kenyan women turn idle land into gold

Finance – Jan 9, 2019

Members of the HoriJabesa group doing record-keeping in Tuluroba village, eastern Kenya, December 6, 2018.

The new finance solutions building the resilience of African farmers and herders

Finance – Jan 12, 2019

A woman picks tea leaves at a plantation in Nandi Hills, in Kenya's highlands region west of capital Nairobi, November 5, 2014.

Risk Finance for the Developing World

Event

Feb 21, 2019

22:05 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.

BLOG: How do economies bounce back after a disaster?

Business – Mar 1, 2017

Woman carrying water in Woukpokpoe village, Benin.

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

Finance – Apr 18, 2017

via The Guardian

Next era of market finance for resilience

Finance – Apr 27, 2017

via Meeting of the Minds