Dakar suburbs strive to turn floodwaters from foe to friend
Improving drainage, storing the water, then harnessing the community to keep things working is reducing flood risks in Senegal
BRACED holds first writeshop on innovation and technology
Senegal gathering aims to produce briefing notes on links between resilience and innovation and technology
In a trial, charity to give poor Kenyans cash for 10 years
What would happen if poor villages were given cash for the next decade, no strings attached?
Burkina Faso braces for heavy rainfall
Improving vulnerable farmers' access to weather information
Local climate funds can help ensure community-driven solutions to climate change
Communities often know how to adapt to challenges stemming from climate change, but they lack access to and control over the funds which could help them put these solutions into practice
Hidden data: the new weapon that could beat hunger
Could bringing together information sources from satellites to village surveys trigger innovation to solve hunger?
Smarter spending could tackle disasters in Uganda before they happen
Sending small amounts of aid before a predicted disaster could help cut what needs to be spent afterward, officials say
Changing demographics may alter climate vulnerability - researchers
Data suggests life expectancy in Europe could rise by 20 years by 2100, while Asia's sex ratio, now skewed toward more boys, could even out over the same period
Household resilience to El Niño-driven drought
To cope with drought, communities in Kombolcha are switching to khat farming