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Changing the Gender Bias in Agriculture
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BAPA+40: An Opportunity to Reenergize South-South Cooperation
Global South-South Development [...] Read more »
Ghana’s Contribution to Plastic Waste Can Be Reduced with the Right Investment
About 2.58 million [...] Read more »
Mercury Contamination Threat Gravitates into Outer Space
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 21 2018 (IPS)
The dangers of mercury contamination have escalated from the dental chair to the realm of outer space.
First, it was the hazardous use of mercury in dentistry, then in [...] Read more »
Overfishing Threatens Malawi’s Blue Economy
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Human Trafficking – Hidden in Plain Sight
By Romy Hawatt
DUBAI, Dec 21 2018 (IPS)
The media globally tends to have a bias to negative, sensational and headline grabbing stories and events and this certainly applies to reporting related to human trafficking in the third [...] Read more »
Nigerian Radio Drama Tells True Life Stories of Irregular Migration
Returnee migrants are [...] Read more »
COP24: A quick post-mortem
The 12th plenary meeting of the COP [...] Read more »
Stemming Waste of Human Talent
IPS Director General's Year end message
By Farhana Haque Rahman
ROME, Dec 20 2018 (IPS)
The year now closing, 2018, culminates an extraordinary period in [...] Read more »
As Climate Change Pummels Agriculture, Irrigation Offers the Best Protection
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Of Cockroaches and Humans
By Roberto Savio
ROME, Dec 19 2018 (IPS)
Rita Levi-Montalcini, the Italian Nobel laureate honoured for her work in neurobiology, once gave a splendid conference with the title “The imperfect brain”. There she explained that man [...] Read more »
Is it Time to End Cheque Book Diplomacy at the UN?
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 19 [...] Read more »
Investors Turn Kenya’s Troublesome Invasive Water Hyacinth into Cheap Fuel
Water hyacinth is a [...] Read more »
Media Advisory: How much land is degraded globally?
By UNCCD Press Release
BONN, Germany, Dec 19 2018 (UNCCD)
The first global assessment of land degradation based on Earth observation data reported by governments will be presented and reviewed at the Seventeenth Session of the [...] Read more »