DEVELOPMENT
Once were warriors
Sep 05, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is piloting a programme to help rehabilitate former child soldiers of Congolese armed forces
Boomtown rats
Aug 29, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
Giant African rats will soon be undertaking an important and dangerous job in Cambodia; locating the millions of unexploded landmines left over after over 30 years of conflict
The goat economy
Aug 15, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Since Saudi Arabia lifted an export ban on Somaliland’s livestock in 2009, the breakaway state has seen a boom in the trade of livestock, particularly goats
The Tianjin fallout
Aug 14, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
Geographical looks at the forthcoming impacts the devastation could have on the rest of the country, after an enormous explosion destroyed a large portion of the port of Tianjin
South Sudan’s new coins
Aug 11, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
To commemorate its fourth year of independence, South Sudan has released a new set of coins. Geographical takes a look at what this could mean for the world's newest country
Gold diggers
Jul 20, 2015
Written by
Geographical
A major Geographical investigation looks at the devastating environmental and debilitating health effects a Thai gold mine is having on a village in Loei, and at how a group of determined villagers are fighting back
Voices of the ‘Afectados’
Jul 20, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
A new film hears directly from inhabitants of the Ecuadorian Amazon suffering from the detrimental effects of oil spills dating back over twenty years
Spray days
Jul 19, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Colombia’s anti-coca crop spraying programme has been suspended – for the time being at least
Tragic routes
Jul 04, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Guadeloupe opens a centre dedicated to the memory of the slave trade
Weather and wages: the strain on India’s tea tribes
May 06, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
Climate change has become the most recent explanation for the low wages of tea labourers in Assam, India, causing yet more tensions between the government, the tea growers and those campaigning on behalf of the poor workers caught in the…
Videogames for volcanoes
Mar 10, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
A videogame may help prepare a small Caribbean island for a potential disaster
Dossier: Dealing with drugs
Mar 02, 2015
Written by
Mark Rowe
While Ebola makes the headlines, a raft of unreported and under-researched diseases are responsible for far more deaths across Africa every year. But without adequate financial rewards for the West, too little is being done to help
Drug-resistant malaria hits Asia
Feb 20, 2015
Written by
Tom Hayes
Malaria that has developed total resistance to the anti-malarial drug Artemisinin has been identified over a far larger area than previously known – putting millions of lives at risk
Polish farmers protest ‘land-grabbing’
Feb 09, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
Tractors clogged the main roads into Warsaw last week as Polish farmers demonstrated their opposition to changes to agriculture laws
World’s renewable resources reach limit
Feb 02, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Renewable resources representing 45 per cent of global calorie intake have reached peak production levels
Through the people’s lens
Jan 26, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
Geographical gets an exclusive preview from development project, Development Progress, ahead of a Royal Geographical Society exhibition starting 16 February
Volunteers from the Global South
Jan 07, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Volunteers from the ‘Global South’ are an important, but poorly understood group in development work
Roach rescuers
Jan 02, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Being crushed under your own home during an earthquake, and then having a cockroach – drawn by your moans – crawl all over you is not at first thought particularly reassuring
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