Environmental sustainability

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• 10 ways development NGOs can support family farmers

  Guardian Professional, 21 Oct 2014: What should NGOs be thinking about when providing assistance to smallholders in the global south? Our panel give their tips

• World Food Day: 10 myths about hunger

  16 Oct 2014: How much do you know about global hunger? Carla Kweifio-Okai takes a look at some of the biggest food production and nutrition myths

• Colombian farmers sue BP in British court

  15 Oct 2014: In the first case of its kind, the farmers claim environmental damage caused by BP’s oil pipeline threatens their livelihoods

• Plenty more fish in the sea: preserving stocks in Madagascar

  Guardian Professional, 15 Oct 2014: Projects where local fishers manage marine areas to ensure sustainability are being replicated across the Indian Ocean, writes Alasdair Harris

• Should donors peg aid to the environment?

  Guardian Professional, 7 Oct 2014: As Norway gives $150m to Liberia to fight illegal logging, Katherine Purvis asks whether aid should have a conservation catch

• Nobel laureates call for a revolutionary shift in how humans use resources

  7 Oct 2014: Eleven holders of prestigious prize say excessive consumption threatening planet, and humans need to live more sustainably

• World Bank chief steps in over evictions of Kenya’s indigenous people

  6 Oct 2014: Jim Yong Kim reaches out to President Uhuru Kenyatta to resolve dispute over Sengwer community in Embobut forest

• The world's biggest and most dangerous dump sites – interactive

  6 Oct 2014: Waste is now a global business yet more than half of the world’s population use dumps for disposing rubbish, creating massive sites full of hazardous materials

• How saving West African forests might have prevented the Ebola epidemic

  3 Oct 2014: Deforestation has destroyed much of the region’s habitat for fruit bats – and put these Ebola carriers into more contact with people

• Nicaragua canal will wreak havoc on forests and displace people, NGO warns

  30 Sep 2014: Forests of the World says shipping companies must pressure Nicaragua and canal’s Chinese backer to limit the project’s impact

• Colombia rice growers saved from ruin after being told not to plant their crop

  30 Sep 2014: Farmers given radical advice following a drought warning by scientists using a computer data tool that reaped a UN reward. Diana Cariboni reports

• World Bank accuses itself of failing to protect Kenya forest dwellers

  29 Sep 2014: Leaked document says World Bank violated its own safeguards in dealings with Sengwer people evicted from their lands

• The truth about feeding 9 billion people is millions will have to feed themselves

  Guardian Professional, 25 Sep 2014: Forget the green revolution, Chad’s farmers will need help to just grow enough to eat, let alone supply the market, writes Gene Fifer

• Indigenous people and the crisis over land and resources

  23 Sep 2014: Martin Mowforth: Do indigenous groups need saving from poverty? And why do they come into conflict with conservationists seeking to protect their land?

• Poor nations’ climate change budget puts health and education funds at risk

  22 Sep 2014: Study exposes funding gaps in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda between plans to address climate change and what is available

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