This week’s summary on the news stories, reports and blogs that have grabbed our attention. We welcome your thoughts and comments on these articles.
Climate Change and Environment
Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty, World Bank Group
Can farms be good for nature without being organic? The Guardian
Getting Green Climate Funding to the local level, iied
Want To Combat Climate Change? Give Up Red Lipstick, Drink Local, and Fly Direct (No Problem!), Forbes
Can UN climate talks catch up with the real world? Thomson Reuters Foundation
Renewables are changing the climate narrative from sacrifice to opportunity, The Guardian
Has capitalism captured conservation? Thrive
Food, Nutrition and Water Security
Helping communities in four West African countries improve their food security, Reliefweb
Identifying social-ecological system properties benefiting biodiversity and food security, Leuphana University Lueneburg
Pesticides stop bumblebees from pollinating apple trees, research shows, The Guardian
World Toilet Day, 19 November, United Nations
Building latrines and keeping water clean decreases diarrhoea and under-nutrition in Mali, World Health Organisation
UAE says Africa is key to its food security, Gulf News
Water rights re-examined, Thrive
The story of agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals, Farming First
Biotechnology
Safety upgrade found for gene-editing technique, Nature
The Gene Hackers, The New Yorker
How GMOs Offer Unexpected Salvation from a Potential Banana Apocalypse, Good
Agriculture in Africa and Technology for Farmers
Big Ideas and Emerging Innovations, The Chicago Council
Bringing “take it to the farmer” to the very last mile, One Acre Fund
Mobile For Development Initiatives, Current developments in M4D, Aid & International Development Forum
New technology to help farmers use fertilisers, boost their yields, Daily Monitor
To end poverty, we must empower rural women, One Acre Fund
Seven things we learned about agricultural technology, The Guardian
One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? 
Some nice articles together, very handy.