Education and climate change – are we addressing the linkages?

Discover how steps taken today are helping to address climate change and its impact on education systems, and vice versa.

Jason Weaver |
Climate Change, Education

A movement for growth in the Sahel

This week, the Sahel Alliance, a consortium of 25 development partners including the World Bank and IFC, renewed its pledge to help five countries of the subregion out of poverty.

Aliou Maiga |
Climate Change, Environment, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Social Protection

Towards a more sustainable future in the Sahel Region

Traveling in the Sahel region, I have seen how conflict, poverty, natural disasters, and climate change are reversing the region's development path and magnifying people's mass…

Axel van Trotsenburg |
Climate Change, Agriculture and Food, Water, Gender

Keeping Africa’s food supplies strong during COVID-19: Lessons from past crises

Esperance Belau, a farmer and agri-entrepreneur from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), hopes something can be done quickly to make sure food security does not decline rapidly as her country…

Diego Arias |
Agriculture and Food, Disaster Risk Management, Health

The locust plague: Fighting a crisis within a crisis

The global locust crisis is forcing governments to fight on two fronts.

Holger Kray, Shobha Shetty |
Agriculture and Food, Climate Change

“Together we are stronger” – Supporting a regional dialogue on the Lake Chad Region

The area around Lake Chad, a large transboundary lake shared by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria in West and Central Africa, is bearing the double burden of climate change and forced…

Johanna Damboeck, Nicolas Perrin, Benjamin Burckhart, Aly Rahim |
Climate Change, Gender