Here's how female entrepreneurs are helping farmers feed Latin America
Women-led start-ups are cutting out the middlemen between organic farmers and supermarkets, helping raise food security and improving farmers' lives.
Based in Bogota, Anastasia Moloney is the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Latin America and Caribbean correspondent.
Women-led start-ups are cutting out the middlemen between organic farmers and supermarkets, helping raise food security and improving farmers' lives.
Indigenous communities in Colombia have long protected the Amazon rainforest - from re-growing forest areas to looking at nature as having its own rights.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred governments in Latin America to try and address the digital divide, with initiatives that include lowering internet prices.
Colombia's second-largest city Medellin has introduced an award-winning 'green corridors' project to combat rising heat, an effect of climate change.
Panama aims to reforest 1 million hectares by 2050 having suspending logging permits and incentivising businesses installing renewable power equipment.
Cutting carbon emissions from energy, transport and construction in cities would bring jobs and savings, as well as curb climate change, a new report says.
Global research has found women do not have an adequate platform to speak out on COVID-19 related issues and are more affected financially by the pandemic.
About half of the world's population live in urban areas, and city mayors are on the frontline of the COVID-19 response working to ensure they are supported with health and social care.
联合国称,新冠病毒大流行将扩大男女之间的贫困差距,到明年将有4700万妇女和女孩陷入贫困生活,并使近几十年来取得的进展付诸东流。
From erratic rainfall to severe droughts, global warming is increasing competition for water around the world, with water-related conflicts on the rise.
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on women and girls is expected to be substantial, according to new UN estimates, with millions pushed into poverty.
In Port-au-Prince and other Haitian cities, local groups have sprung up to fight the COVID-19 myths that have eroded trust in healthcare.
"Je me souviens des moments où j'ai été battu et attaqué par une foule. J’ai toujours des flashbacks. J'ai choisi la non-violence comme mode de vie".
Cuatro afroestadounidenses de diferentes generaciones reflexionan sobre el período de protesta de hoy y los del pasado.
Four black Americans of different generations reflect on today's period of protest and those of the past.