Oct 22, 2019 In the News Here’s why raising gas prices leads to violent protests like Ecuador’s (Washington Post) Governance Washington Post featured an analysis by former IFPRI staff Jordan Kyle on the role played by local governments in shaping resistance to reforming fiscally and environmentally disastrous fuel subsidies.  Jordan […]

Source: European Commission, International Organization for Migration, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Participants reaffirmed their strong commitment to continue protecting and assisting Venezuelan refugees and migrants and to support the efforts of the receiving countries’ governments. Joint communique […]

Asia’s vast landmass and growing cities are warming faster than the global average and that will have a disproportional impact on food security and livelihoods for billions of people across the region, co-authors of a global report warned today. Some Asian cities are already 0.2 – 2.6 degrees warmer than […]

Species like silver-studded blue and high brown fritillary butterflies have been on the decline around the British isles. A team of researchers from the University of York say they know the answer as to why that is. The answer is climate change. Warming weather is causing several species of butterfly […]