Written by Karim Merchant & Ingrid Nyborg. Whilst we wait for the Taliban to meet international human rights standards, it would be wrong to withhold humanitarian assistance as the harsh […]
Written by Karim Merchant & Ingrid Nyborg. 20 years after Western troops invaded Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Kabul has fallen. The speed of the Taliban’s […]
Market stall in Bamyan, Central Afghanistan. Photo: Jono Photography / Shutterstock Written by Karim Merchant & Gry Synnevåg Yet another crisis for Afghanistan After 40 years of war and violent […]
Written by Lyla Mehta. First published in IDS News & Opinion. Since the end of 2019, India has been rocked by protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the […]
Well, if everything happens for a reason, then the crooked ‘P’ is representative of this conference Tomohiro Harada spent almost 2 long weeks at the Conference of the Parties (COP) […]
Olav B. Soldal offers his impressions from a trip to Costa Rica earlier this year where he was part of an NMBU field course working with a community struggling to […]
Noragric PhD Fellow Tomohiro Harada on the UN’s recent Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform in Bonn. Indigenous peoples are no longer ’observers’ at the UNFCCC. As effective ’contributors’ to […]
Written by Tomohiro Harada, PhD Fellow, Noragric This last week 30,000 people from across the world gathered at the heart of Europe’s coal mining region to address the biggest threat to […]