A filthy squat in Calais is home to 50 Eritreans who daily try to cross the Channel seeking asylum in Britain. Here are their stories.

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

Spiralling global conflicts and worldwide instability have forced millions of people to leave their homes and seek refuge either abroad or in their own countries. The latest figures do not include the wars in Sri Lanka and Pakistan's Swat valley, which have displaced thousands more

Migration and displacement, caused by climate change, could vastly exceeds anything that has occurred before, according to a report launched today. Whole human populations may be forced to move for their own survival.

Largely unnoticed, a Third World War is under way. It is a silent war and the enemy is malnutrition. Its victims are mainly children living in less developed countries. And one weapon waiting to be used more widely to combat it is a 'miracle vegetable', Moringa, popularly known in my country - the Philippines - as malunggay.

Wars, famine, and natural disasters are just a few of the reasons people are forced to leave their homes and flee their countries. Around the world, millions of refugees are waiting, sometimes for a lifetime, to return home. Here is a look at who they are.

People are moving around the world constantly-either toward opportunity or away from misfortune and fear. This is where people are going, and where they are coming from.

Jalozai was the largest Afghan refugee settlement but was demolished in June 2008 and its settlers were told either to go to their home country or move to other locations inside Pakistan. Insecurity, land disputes and lack of jobs have stopped tens of thousands of returnees from moving to their original areas and rebuilding their houses. Some households, including Jamaluddin's, have set up tents and mud huts in different parts of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar

With stories of old TVs ending up in Nigerian landfill sites, the collapse in demand for recycled materials, and claims that incineration is a better way to dispose of waste, there's a growing backlash against recycling. So should we still be washing up those baked beans cans? Leo Hickman finds out