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15 MAR 2018 18 MIN READ 16 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

In August 2017 Hurricane Harvey flooded whole communities in Houston. With predicted increases in extreme weather events, city planners across the globe are faced with the task of working with, rather than against, nature.

22 FEB 2018 12 MIN READ

Hydrologists work with mountain farmers in Nepal to meet changing climate challenges. In the process they're learning to use local insight to guide their data collection.

15 FEB 2018 12 MIN READ

Environmental changes in the Dry Corridor - Corredor Seco - and Atlantic Coast have driven migration in Honduras, one of the countries most affected by climate change. Here, women have gathered together in old and new collectives, as they struggle to create economic opportunities and grow crops against increasing weather variability.

25 JAN 2018 19 MIN READ

From Brooklyn to Bangalore, community networks and collaboration yield success – and lessons, for governance and community involvement elsewhere.

11 JAN 2018 15 MIN READ 19 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

A history of tipping points from an ecological perspective and how they inform resilience thinking in global development.

30 NOV 2017 15 MIN READ 21 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

Dutch colonists introduced commercial farming techniques to the region more than 300 years ago. Today, local wild food activists are working with communities to reintroduce endemic edible plants into the local food system, recover long-lost food heritages, and potentially help save the threatened biodiversity of the Cape.

09 NOV 2017 11 MIN READ 25 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

Fishers in Kenya earn a wage above the poverty line. Why do many of them feel that they are poor?

02 NOV 2017 15 MIN READ 8 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

Chefs, scientists, and entrepreneurs are giving the chilhuacle pepper – a once-imperilled ingredient of Mexico’s holiest mole – a new future. Lucas Laursen tracks a potentially purposeful transformation.

19 OCT 2017 21 MIN READ

Can a forest conservation programme funded by Norway keep the nation’s forests intact while respecting indigenous rights and fostering other economic interests?

12 OCT 2017 15 MIN READ 11 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

Indigenous peoples face twin challenges to their food security: global warming and globalisation. Old ways are threatened. New foods are often unhealthier. Lou Del Bello explores how new ways of self-organisation may help support resilience in the Far North.