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Alessio Perrone

Alessio Perrone is a freelance editor and reporter at Devex. Throughout his career, he has reported on issues at the intersection of policy, environment and human interest for outlets including The Guardian, Scientific American, TIME, and others. He’s based in Milan, Italy.

Latest Articles

Climate Finance
Climate Finance
Is ADB still Asia and the Pacific’s ‘climate bank’?
13 May 2025
The Asian Development Bank has long called itself the region's “climate bank” but the phrase was hardly anywhere to be found at its annual meetings last week in Milan, Italy.
Food Systems
Food Systems
How ADB plans to invest $40B in food systems by 2030
7 May 2025
The Asian Development Bank joins the World Bank and African Development Bank in investing in food systems as a foundation of long-term economic development. A quarter of the $26 billion in additional ADB investments will go to nutrition.
Techonlogy
Techonlogy
The AI apps helping the world's low-income farmers work smarter
23 Jul 2024
Smartphone apps and chatbots are diagnosing pests and farm animal diseases and dispensing crop-specific advice based on the weather — even for farmers with limited literacy or internet connectivity.
Food systems
Food systems
$205B a year could slash agri-food systems emissions by nearly half
28 Mar 2024
Investments of about $205 billion a year, or 2% of global food systems revenues, could slash emissions by nearly half and unlock new opportunities for food companies.
Food systems
Food systems
UN agriculture fund bets big on innovation to improve food security
15 Feb 2024
The International Fund for Agricultural Development focused its annual Governing Council meeting in Rome on innovations to help smallholder farmers face challenges such as climate change and economic turmoil.
Climate finance
Climate finance
Rich countries miss key deadline for loss and damage fund launch
9 Feb 2024
Missed nominations risk delaying aid for climate-vulnerable communities in the global south.
Inclusive Development
Inclusive Development
The call to end 'abject humiliation' over development conferences
30 Nov 2023
From visas to shared languages, a new open letter calls for a shift to include local partners in development events, conversations, and agenda-setting processes.
WASH
WASH
Lack of school toilet maintenance costs the world billions, report says
17 Nov 2023
Losing toilets to neglect costs countries billions of dollars due to its negative impact on children's health, families' incomes and job creation, a new study finds.
The Road to COP 28
The Road to COP 28
The adaptation solutions helping African farmers tackle climate change
15 Nov 2023
From seed breeding, to weather intelligence, to cutting livestock emissions, some of the adaptation solutions for African agriculture already exist and only need funding to scale, according to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Climate Finance
Climate Finance
Climate adaptation finance gap widens by 50%, says UN report
3 Nov 2023
Ahead of COP 28, a new UNEP report says the international community must find hundreds of billions of dollars per year to fund climate adaptation.
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