Research, innovation vital in new COVID-19 world
In an interconnected world, with pandemic or climate change, development funding must also go to research.
Malaria: Artemisinin resistance emerges in Africa
Locally emerging resistance to treatment is major health threat in sub-saharan Africa.
Climate change to steepen food prices
An example of a worsening retroaction between two SDGs : climate action (SDG13) and zero hunger (SDG2).
Robot hikes the Andes to cross Peru’s digital divide
In remote villages of the Peruvian Andes, a robot has taken over the classrooms.
Cameroon on the verge of destroying a unique ecosystem
The Cameroonian government has decided to create logging concessions in a biodiversity sanctuary.
Maize gene could lure natural enemies of crop pests
Scientists have identified genes in local maize varieties that can fight off stemborers by summoning their natural enemies, raising hopes for pest-resistant varieties for African smallholders.
Journals opening up to science expertise from South
Growing trend towards science research from global South given boost by COVID-19 interruptions.
More conservation ‘could create US$454 billion a year’
Protecting wildlife on land and in the sea (SDGs 14 and 15) would have favorable economic consequences, improving several other SDGs.
HIV testing ‘powered by football’ increase to 30 per cent
In Malawi, a project that used football to attract the youth and educate them on HIV/AIDS increased testing for HIV by about 30 per cent within this population.
Luiz Eugenio Mello: “An opportunity to change the world with science”
Luiz Eugenio Mello, who has recently been appointed as the scientific director of one of Brazil’s major research funding agencies shares his vision for this agency and for science.
