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In this article, our director for Africa, Akinyi Walender, assesses the conflict in Sudan and highlights how climate change is not a tomorrow issue, but a factor that undermines stability and sows the seeds of violence.

Practical Action joins calls for Eid ceasefire in Sudan.

Practical Action has been working with smallholder farmers for over five decades. Smallholder farmers are crucial to food security and thriving rural economies - but make up three quarters of the world's poorest people - so fundamental changes are needed.

Work funded by the UK Government has boosted the income of smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe, helping them to double their food production and increase their income.

Thousands of smallholder farmers in Burkina Faso will boost their food production, thanks to a new project investing in better access to and use of clean energy.

People highly vulnerable to climate change will benefit from a huge £390,000 grant awarded to Practical Action by the Prince of Wales Charitable Fund (PWCF)

Practical Action’s purpose for almost 60 years has been to work with people living in poverty so that they can transform their lives and influence wider systems change so that the changes can be sustained and scaled.