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The UN climate talks in Belém have ended with some steps forward on how the world tracks progress on climate adaptation. However, Practical Action staff working closely with communities living with climate impacts say the outcome still falls well short of what is needed.

When global leadership fails, local leadership becomes even more essential.

In the wake of reports of mass killings in the city of El Fasher in recent days and weeks, we spoke to our Darfur area co-ordinator, Awadalla Hamid Mohamed.

Food and agriculture are responsible for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and are the leading drivers of biodiversity loss. Yet, hundreds of millions of people are going hungry, and many of the farmers who feed us live in poverty.

Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon today presented a new mechanism designed to create direct channel of funds to Amazonian territories.

Practical Action’s CEO Sarah Roberts underlines why climate change remains her number one priority and what the organisation will do to help the world address the challenge.

New policies and a financial package which could save the Amazon have been proposed by a group of indigenous women from Peru and Ecuador.   

In the rural Nepal, 38-year-old Bin Maya has transformed her family’s future through vegetable farming. She lives with her husband, two sons and a daughter. For years they relied on small plots of maize, wheat and barley that barely fed the family.

In Kassala and Gedarif states in Sudan—where families walked miles for stagnant canal water and children regularly fell ill — clean water is available once more.