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World's top aid agency to promote resilience with new body
Experts said the creation of a new Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, would cement momentum behind the global poverty-reduction approach
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More deals, less conflict? Cross-border water planning key, report warns
As global water supplies run low, agreements on how to share water across borders are crucial - but few are in place yet, researchers say
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Stay or go? As weather gets wilder, states urged to prepare for displacement
With disasters uprooting 24 million people a year, pressure grows on governments to reduce the risk, and do more to protect the displaced
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Peace ambassadors' ease water conflicts in drought-prone Kenya
Volunteers are being trained to show rural communities ways to use water more efficiently to grow crops, and how to ease local tensions over the scarce resource
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Solar tracking bracelets protect nomadic Kenyan mothers and babies
Beaded bracelets with solar-powered GPS enable health workers to monitor pregnant pastoralist women, preventing deaths in childbirth
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As students map the weather, an Indian village bests its water woes
A weather station monitored by students - part of a range of water-smart innovations - has turned around a parched village
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We want water' say residents as Abidjan grows drier
Faltering rains linked to climate change and rapid population growth mean there's less water to go around
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Disasters happen to real people – and it's complicated
Age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and many more factors must be considered if people are to become resilient to climate extremes
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As rains falter, water harvesting quenches Nepal's thirst for irrigation
Government-backed storage ponds are helping farmers face up to unpredictable rainfall linked to climate change
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From drones to social media, big data helps confront more complex disasters in Asia
As climate change brings bigger threats, data from everything from social media to satellites is helping cut risks in Asia, U.N. officials say
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