“Funding has always been an issue but we have never seen it as challenged as it is now,” says UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed to Manipadma Jena STOCKHOLM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Funding for international...
Manipadma Jena entrevista a TORGNY HOLMGREN, director ejecutivo del Instituto Internacional para el Agua de Estocolmo. ESTOCOLMO, 12 sep 2018 (IPS) – Los países en crecimiento tienen economías sedientas, y la escasez de agua...
Manipadma Jena interviews the executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) TORGNY HOLMGREN at the World Water Week 2018 STOCKHOLM, Sep 11 2018 (IPS) – Growing economies are thirsty economies. And...
With both rice and shrimp increasingly difficult to raise, southern Bangladesh farmers are turning to a new crop JOYMONI, Bangladesh, March 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kishore Mondol, a farmer in the low-lying deltas...
From cash to buy bicycles to jobs that avoid early marriage, solar mini-grid power is giving Uttar Pradesh women choices KAMLAPUR, India, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In her village of Komalia, the...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 21 2018 (IPS) – When Shiba Kurian alighted from Chennai’s city train, the evening office-returning crowd was thick and jostling. Having booked a ride-hail cab she walked out to the...
WATAMU, Kenya, Dec 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kai, a three-year-old green sea turtle, was released back into the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean off Kenya’s coast this month. She had been hospitalised...
IPS correspondent Manipadma Jena interviews the Executive Director of United Nations Environment ERIK SOLHEIM ahead of the Dec. 4-6 3rd UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, where 193 member states will discuss and make global...
Warmer winters and fluctuating rainfall in Chilika Lake are proving to be major disruptors for the large population of migratory birds in this famous lagoon on India’s eastern coast. It is only February but...
NAIROBI, Jan 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Growing up in Al-Harrah, a small village in west-central Yemen, Omer Badokhon watched his mother cooking for hours at a time in a smoke-filled kitchen. Now the...