Genetically modified crops are continuing to spread across the world, according to the leading annual survey of GM in agriculture, published yesterday.
Increasingly, voices across the world are questioning the narrow approach to a single disease, especially the huge financing for AIDS over all else in basic healthcare. Though welcome and long overdue, this debate must now move further.
The current world food crisis is the result of the combined effects of competition for cropland from the growth in biofuels, low cereal stocks, high oil prices, speculation in food
This paper synthesizes the findings of a study carried out by Ecoagriculture Partners and the International Institute for Environment and Development on behalf of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to explore opportunities for sustainable development in East Africa.
LONDON - A new advisory firm launched on Monday seeks to boost carbon emissions trading in sub-Saharan Africa and raise the continent's lagging profile in the $120 billion global carbon market.
Debate rages on. Alarmists insist that anthropogenic global warming threatens human health and welfare, plant and animal species. Challengers argue that there is no crisis, and humans play a relatively minor role in climate change.