World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Migration
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Moving out and up: panel data evidence on migration and poverty in Uganda
This paper examines the relationship between spatial and economic mobility in Uganda using longitudinal data from 2005 through 2012. The study relies on a detailed panel tracking survey and exploits exogenous
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Smallholder farming systems in coastal Kenya: key trends and innovations for resilience
Smallholder farmers in coastal Kenya are already significantly affected by climate change, particularly in semi-arid and dryland areas. They have developed a number of innovations to enhance resilience
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Food security and emigration: why people flee and the impact on family members left behind in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
Food Security and Emigration: Why people flee and the impact on family members left behind in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras shows the need to invest in long-term programmes to discourage people
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Climate change means more rain but less water in rural rivers: Study
Soaring temperatures driven by climate change are whipping up ever-more intense storms inundating cities with flash floods but leaving the countryside and crucial agricultural land parched, an Australian
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Before G-20, free-wheeling talks on terror; climate, trade on summit table
While Trump’s pullout from the Paris climate accord will be one of the running themes, Merkel told the Bundestag last week that there are “no such compromises likely in Hamburg”, perhaps a reference to
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Over half of migrants uprooted from West and Central Africa are children- U.N.
More than 7 million children in West and Central Africa are on the move because of violence, poverty and climate change, accounting for over half of all migrants in the region, the United Nations children's
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Ahead of G20, Trump discusses climate change with Merkel
Ahead of the G20 Summit in Germany, US President Donald Trump has held "extensive discussions" with German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the key issues of climate change and trade. "In an extensive
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Over 2.26 lakh farmers migrate from Uttarakhand, reduced to labourers
NAINITAL: More than 2.26 lakh families of farmers who migrated from the hill districts — since inception of Uttarakhand in 2000 — for survival have been "reduced to manual labourers" in various cities
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Migrants sent home $445 billion in 2016, lifting millions out of poverty- report
LONDON, June 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Migrants working in rich countries sent home almost half a trillion dollars in 2016, helping to lift families out of poverty by providing financial stability,
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Sending money home: contributing to the SDGs, one family at a time
The amount of money migrants send to their families in developing countries has risen by 51 per cent over the past decade - far greater than the 28 per cent increase in migration from these countries,