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The development community is finally talking about how best to fight NTDs but more consensus and practical action is needed
The London conference on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) held in January was a seminal moment in the global fight against a group of diseases which are often overshadowed in the global health agenda by HIV, malaria and TB.
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We aim to offer a space where professionals can network as well as share knowledge and expertise
The Guardian's coverage of global development is one of the key ways in which we are able to fulfil our purpose of holding power to account and promoting social justice around the world.
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The world is changing but are development professionals keeping up? Our credibility at risk if we do not change the story we're telling, says Martin Kirk
Global development is evolving at a blistering pace. But are development professionals keeping up?
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Clamp down on harmful industrial practices and support small-scale fishers to prevent 'ocean-grabbing' and overfishing
Overfishing is becoming increasingly recognised for the ecological disaster that it is. The capacity of the global aggregate fishing fleet is at least double of what is needed to exploit the oceans sustainably, and fishing methods such as industrial bottom trawling have proved particularly destructive. Add to this the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide, leading to increased sea temperatures and ocean acidification, oil spills, agricultural and industrial run-off, pollution from aquaculture, and the enormous accumulation of plastic debris in water, and the critical situation for marine wildlife becomes clear.
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Caspar van Vark reviews how the work of food security advisers is changing in wake of global food price crisis
Food security advisers have long sat under a humanitarian umbrella, with international development NGOs using them to assess food needs in crisis situations. But as food security has risen up the policy agenda in the wake of global food crisis, the role of food security advisers is becoming more professionalised. It now goes beyond humanitarian responses to engage with development objectives in more formal ways.
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Mobile phone services are improving agricultural yield and profits by providing farmers advice on crops, weather and market prices
Last year, the GSM Association (GSMA), the representative body of mobile phone network operators worldwide, reported that mobile penetration in Africa had reached 649 million subscribers - equivalent to around 65% of people - and was expected to reach more than 735 million by the end of 2012. It's a similar story in India, which already has 70 subscriptions per 100 people, with 53% of households owning a mobile phone.
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More lives in remote and conflict-hit areas of Africa could be saved by using solar fridges to store and supply vaccines
A yellow fever outbreak in Sudan's Darfur region shows the difficulties faced by immunisation teams operating in some of Africa's most remote and under-developed regions. Since October, 116 people have died in five regions of western Sudan - central, east, west, north and south Darfur, and some 460 people have been infected.
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Sir John Beddington says governments must act in face of climate change, more older people and rapid urbanisation
Ageing populations and urbanisation could leave the world's poorest countries increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters, the UK's chief scientific adviser warned on Tuesday.
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Facing hardship, families in Benin are sending their children to work in sometimes brutal conditions in neighbouring Nigeria
The abuse Timothy Goudjana suffered as a teenage labourer in Nigeria still haunts him. But decades later, he sent two of his own children, at a much younger age, to a similar fate.
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Money sent home from the diaspora is an important source of funding, but Unctad says cost of transfer fees is too high
The world's poorest countries should harmonise policies on migration, remittances and diaspora so they become an integral part of national development strategies, a UN report recommends.
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