the Guardian

Gerda Verburg

I grew up on a farm and I am one of 10 siblings, so I know how challenging it can be to embrace differences and work together. But I am also from the Netherlands '€“ a country that would be underwater if we had not all worked together to come up with a solution '€“ so I know it can be done.

Lean Alfred Santos

Being poor is more than just the amount of money a person has.

Mark Tran, The Guardian

UN special rapporteur on the right to food champions agroecology as sustainable alternative to existing framework

Ben Hirschler

* Ahead of Davos meeting, forum warns of "lost" generation

* Widening wealth gap ranked as top global risk in 2014

* Extreme weather next most likely cause of major shocks

* Threat of fiscal crises significant, but danger receding

By Ben Hirschler

This image gives the reader some basic information about Future Generations, a human-centered international development organization working to alleviate global poverty.

This graph shows the relationship between per capita GDP of individual countries (or the average amount earned per person per year) and the Global Gender Gap Index Score (or the amount of money a woman makes for every dollar earned by a man with the same job). There is a clear, positive correlation between per capita GDP and the Gender Gap Index Score.

Graph showing the Capita Income 2007 and 2050 estimations.

Graph showing the estimated increase of the GDP for China and India.

Michael Kanellos

The world’s most important invention—the technological breakthrough that has fundamentally changed family life for the better nearly everywhere—isn’t particularly extravagant. In fact, you probably have one.

What is it? The car? The computer? The cell phone? Not quite.