Mining in Peru is often not good news for its people. It contaminates natural resources and causes social conflicts across the country. But this bad news only makes the front page when it’s…
Progressio, 21st October 2010
On my last trip to Huancavelica, Humberto Lizana, a livestock farmer, told me: “10 years ago no one would talk about water and how to make good use of it. No one was interested.”
Nowadays things are…
Progressio, 13th October 2010
I spent a lot of my recent visit to the United States thinking about what kinds of changes are going to have to take place to face and adapt to climate change.
The Climate Justice Now! campaign…
Progressio, 11th October 2010
Since the introduction of multiparty politics in 1994, Malawians have enjoyed relative stability. Since then, power has changed hands peacefully between three different political parties, an…
Progressio, 30th September 2010
When one visits the rural communities in Huancavelica, Peru, the first thing that strikes you is the lack of presence of the state and lack of access to basic services such as health or education….
Progressio, 17th September 2010
Five years ago, Mustafa never dreamed that he could make something of his life. Mustafa, who lives in Somaliland, is blind. But that’s not all. Thanks to a stray land-mine, he also lost both of his…
Jo Barrett, 3rd September 2010
Progressio development worker Innocent Ogaba, who works with small scale farmers in drought-hit southern Malawi, has returned home after attending climate change talks in Bonn. Here he answers some…
Keith Ewing, 12th August 2010
Progressio ‘Local Hero’ Teclah Ponde works in Zimbabwe’s prisons with ZACRO (Zimbabwe Association for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation) on issues of HIV and AIDS. Here, Joseph, one of the…
Progressio, 9th August 2010
Progressio’s Innocent Ogaba, a development worker with Environment Africa in Malawi, says things are looking up at the latest round of international climate change negotiations in Bonn.
Before I…
Innocent Ogaba, 6th August 2010
Victor Barry (above, second from the left) reflects on what it’s like to be an organic and low-carbon farmer in the UK.
I’m an organic and low-carbon farmer on Treloan Farm, in the beautiful and…
Progressio, 5th August 2010
