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As intense fighting in Khartoum reached the streets around her home, our Sudan Director Muna Eltahir decided she had no choice but to leave.

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.

How can lives and livelihoods affected by floods can not only be protected but ensured of a better future through a safe recovery? Richa Gyawali, our Business Development Officer in Nepal, explains a path towards it through index-based flood insurance (IBFI) and shares the voices of the farmers in the Terai province.

A belief that was central to the philosophy of our founder E.F. ‘Fritz’ Schumacher is that big change must start small to work for those who need it. This philosophy is as relevant now as when Fritz was working.

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.