Interviews
The Budongo Forest Landscape: Diets, Food Security and Nutrition
Around the Budongo forest, expanding sugarcane production, the establishment of tree plantations and forest loss have altered the landscape. In this rural area where nearly all households have a home garden...
A Force for Good: How Digital Jedis are Responding to the Nepal Earthquake
Digital Humanitarians are responding in full force to the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal. Information sharing and coordination is taking place online via CrisisMappers and on multiple dedicated...
SkyLIFE Technology and Immediate Disaster Relief
Despite the tremendous advances in disaster preparedness and improved management of humanitarian supply chains since the Indonesian tsunami relief in 2003, there remains a significant gap in the time from...
World Malaria Day 2015: Creating a Malaria Free World
Malaria is a deadly disease transmitted to people through bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes. On World Malaria Day 2015, it is time to acknowledge the progress the international community has made in...
Promoting healthy insect ecosystems in Cambodia to ensure agricultural sustainability
In order to feed a rapidly-growing population sustainably amid growing pressure from a changing climate, agricultural producers in Southeast Asia will need to build resilience by embracing landscape approaches...
The power of hygiene promotion in South Sudan
I’ve been travelling through the states of Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Warrap, gathering stories about the way people’s lives have been impacted by our work. I’ll admit, topics like open...
WaterAid: It’s time all babies had a Healthy Start
Fleur Anderson, WaterAid’s Global Head of Campaigns, explains why safe water, toilets and good hygiene are a matter of life or death for newborn babies in the world’s poorest communities. I've...
The role of research in food and nutrition security
A major new report spells out what science can, and can’t do to help provide nutritious food for all. As readers of this blog will know, “Feeding the Planet” or ‘food security’...
Higher education, distance learning and technology
There has been phenomenal growth in higher education (HE) in the Commonwealth, as in the rest of the world. However, the costs of HE have risen exponentially, way above inflation rates in the past three...
Emerging Technologies and Emerging Needs For Urbanised Disaster Risk Reduction
Natural disasters are increasing in frequency, intensity, unpredictability and economic costs. In the last few decades, 4.4 billion people have been affected and 1.3 million killed by natural disasters....
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[E-book] Best Practices and Lessons Learnt in Emergency Procurement
Looking ahead to the AIDF Global Disaster Relief Summit 2015, the Aid and International Development Forum (AIDF) has released the AIDF Guide to Emergency Procurement. Within disaster relief logistics, procurement...
Disaster-related displacement: time to put knowledge into action
IDMC report reveals an increased risk of global displacement caused by disasters, and calls for a stronger link between displacement and disaster risk reduction. If this link was better understood and addressed...
