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Women feed their children at a nutrition site in South Sudan.
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Explainer: What is famine?

Amid growing global concerns over alarming hunger spikes in conflict-affected communities and talk of intensifying levels of food insecurity possibly leading to famine, we looked into how – and when – a famine is classified.

Sindhoor Pangal (center) worked with Masons Ink and a team of women masons to create her mud home.
© Sindhoor Pangal

Path to low-carbon construction is clear as mud

The use of building materials such as cement and steel create a massive carbon footprint, and the industry overall is responsible for almost 40 per cent of global CO2 emissions, mainly in terms of production and transport. Now, two women architects in India think they might have a new, perhaps counter-intuitive solution to sustainable construction: building with mud.