Thursday, August 31, 2023
Asian Development Bank (ADB) statisticians Arturo Martinez Jr. and Joseph Albert Nino Bulan answer questions on how the increased cost of living crisis threatens to push many back into poverty in Asia and the Pacific, based on their research for Key...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
In 2020, South Sudan witnessed the first locust invasion in over 70 years. The locusts destroyed crops and grazing land in many parts of the country, significantly affecting the incomes and food security of thousands of people, the majority of whom...
Monday, November 14, 2022
Women need to be engaged in designing, implementing, and monitoring climate-smart agriculture. With a food crisis and climate change affecting millions of people in Asia and the Pacific, equipping female farmers with technology, support, and resources,...
Friday, October 14, 2022
About 39 per cent of all job card-holding households interested in working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005 did not get a single day of work in the Covid year of 2020-21, revealed a survey conducted by...
Monday, September 12, 2022
‘Parametric’ insurance could offer farmers quicker relief when they lose their crops to floods, storms, and other climate-driven calamities. Climate change is causing frequent heat waves, erratic rainfall, flooding, and other extreme weather events that...
Friday, August 5, 2022
The National Rural Livelihood Mission aims to increase income and improve the well-being of rural households. Using survey data from nine states in India, this article analyses the existence of caste-based differences in self-help groups within the NRLM...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Bhavana Devi, or Bhuri, as she is known by people in the village of Kerpura in Rajasthan’s Udaipur district, cheerfully opens the rusted iron doors to her home. Sunlight streams in. It lights up her dwelling, one small cement-and-brick box with a damaged...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
The start of the Decade of Action to achieve the SDGs has also marked the start of an unprecedented period of overlapping crises. The COVID-19 pandemic and crises of conflict, hunger, climate change, and environmental degradation are mutually compounding...
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Creating new jobs is one of the biggest challenges facing low- and middle-income countries. Because employment in these countries is mostly in micro and small enterprises (MSEs), targeted interventions such as training, microcredit, cash grants, business...
Monday, June 6, 2022
Social protection and labour programmes can enable and encourage more sustainable and resilient livelihood practices, but they rarely respond to the needs of fishers and fish workers.
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