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Highlands farming, 2008 (Flickr/Drew Douglas)

18 January 2016

Politicising drought relief in Papua New Guinea

by Colin Wiltshire and Thiago Cintra Oppermann

Figure 1: Impact of drought & frost on food supply in rural PNG, late December 2015

15 January 2016

The ongoing impact of the El Niño drought and frosts in Papua New Guinea

by Michael Bourke, Bryant Allen and Michael Lowe

16 December 2015

Humanitarian principles amid the militarisation of aid: an interview with Vincent Bernard

by Camilla Burkot and Vincent Bernard

4 December 2015

Fortnightly links: understanding ISIS, democratic leadership, Australian generosity, and more…

by Camilla Burkot and Terence Wood

Emergency room in the Emergency Surgical Hospital in Aden, which MSF has been running since the beginning of 2015 (copyright: Guillaume Binet/MYOP)

2 November 2015

How the global humanitarian system is failing Yemenis

by Paul McPhun

Activities in World Vision Child Friendly Space in Kathmandu, April 2015 (image: World Vision Australia)

30 October 2015

The invisible health challenge for aid and humanitarian action

by Hayley Channer, Megan McGrath and Alison Schafer

Local responders save countless lives, including in the Nepal earthquake earlier this year (image: Int'l Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)

24 September 2015

Strengthening local actors key to effective disaster response

by Peter Walton

24 September 2015

Fortnightly links: crises, charts, sinking islands and worms (yes, again)

by Camilla Burkot and Terence Wood

28 August 2015

Fortnightly links: awful aid reporting, development looking backwards and forwards, and more…

by Camilla Burkot and Terence Wood

Sweet potatoes for sale, Intoap market, Markham Valley, PNG in 2010 (image: Flickr/Biodiversity International/P Mathur)

26 August 2015

Food risks in PNG: lessons from 1997

by Bryant Allen

Internally Displaced Persons receive emergency food aid, Sudan 2008 (image: Flickr/UN Photo/Tim McKulka)

19 August 2015

Humanitarian aid in 2015: great challenges but greater opportunities

by Rebecca Barber

31 July 2015

Weekend links: Žižek on Greece, Worm Wars, an empiricist strikes back, and more…

by Camilla Burkot and Terence Wood

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