Is it time to rethink humanitarian insurance?
Could more access to insurance help governments of poorer countries deal with more climate-related disasters?
How to work effectively with journalists
Journalists and development organisations sometimes have a “love-hate” relationship - they need each other but also can find working together challenging. What can help?
Haiyan reveals crucial role of health in building disaster resilience
In the wake of a disaster, making people healthier is as crucial as rebuilding and repairing things
Kenyan pastoralist women find new economic freedom - from pawpaws
As droughts worsen in northern Kenya, pastoralist women take up gardening – and curb domestic violence
Islamic finance provides Kenyans with cushion against drought
This Muslim-majority county's first private cooperative offers interest-free loans, with no fees for late payment - in accordance with Islamic principles
Online cow shopping gathers pace among Kenyan farmers
As worsening drought hits, "Cowsoko" allows hard-hit cattle owners to buy and sell stock online
Home-grown Kenyan solar farm powers computers - and protects girls
When community members wanted solar power but couldn't afford it, they banded together
World Bank warns climate change could add 100 million poor by 2030
Good development policies are needed fast to keep poor people safe from extreme weather and rising seas
Africa's Great Green Wall could halt youth migration, extremism - experts
Planned wall would see a 7,000 km (4,400 mile) strip of vegetation reaching from Senegal in West Africa to Djibouti in East Africa
Kenyan farmers tackle crop failure by swapping seeds for seedlings
Kenyan farmers are turning to seed propagation, whereby seeds are grown in a greenhouse before the farmers transplant the seedlings at home.