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Kathleen Noreisch

Timor-Leste's farmers start again - Guardian Weekly - 0 views

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    Matt Crook visits Timor-Leste to see how farmers in the "coffee triangle" are benefiting from an initiative backed by the US Agency for International Development that will see new coffee trees distributed to 1,200 farms. The revival of Timor-Leste's traditional coffee crop will be crucial for the country's economic recovery
Charlotte Lemaitre

Costs of Adapting to Climate Change Double-to-Triple UN Estimates, New Report Says : Tr... - 1 views

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    We all know that adapting to climate change is going to cost us -- but that doing nothing will ultimately cost us even more -- however, a new report from the International Institute for Environment and Development says that the real costs of adaptation are likely to be 2-3 times greater than those estimated by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change :
Kathleen Noreisch

"Sending Money Home to Africa" - remittances hold immense untapped potential for the poor - 5 views

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    African workers send home more than US$40 billion to the region each year but restrictive laws and costly fees hamper the power of remittances to lift people out of poverty, according to a new report by the UN's rural poverty agency, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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