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A woman holding a drone at a farm in Uganda. According to technology experts, women in the global South are increasingly being left behind despite an upward trend and growth in digitisation of agriculture. Copyright: CTA ACP-EU (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Women sidelined in agri-tech revolution, experts say

General news, SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud16/05/2022Leave a comment

The exclusion of women in the digital world is hurting agricultural productivity in low- and middle- income countries, according to global technology experts.

Mother with baby picks leafy vegetables in the rural Efate island in Vanuatu. Many countries are failing to incorporate gender in climate plans, despite the key role played by women in food systems, new analysis shows. Copyright: Sarah Doyl/Bioversity International, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

To tackle climate change, food systems must be fixed

General news, SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud29/04/2022Leave a comment

There is need for countries to integrate food systems into their climate plans. But Haseeb Bakhtary writes that measures on changing diets, food-linked deforestation, and food waste are lacking in most climate plans. 

Plastic bottles on a beach. Copyright: Bo Eide, CC BY-NC 2.0

Awaiting a ‘treaty on plastics pollution’

General news, SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud23/04/2022Leave a comment

A global treaty on plastic wastes is on the way after the representatives of about 175 UN nations recently endorsed a resolution to end plastic pollution.

The Río de la Plata and the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A report has warned of the contamination of the world's rivers by active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), especially in developing countries. Copyright: Dan DeLuca/Flickr, (CC BY 2.0).

Drugs polluting rivers, worsening antimicrobial resistance

General news, SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud18/04/2022Leave a comment

Aside polluting world rivers, a study has discovered that pharmaceutical pollution could contribute to antimicrobial resistance. Hence, affecting human health, while threatening the United Nations’ goals on water quality.

Clients at an internet café at the Jesuit Refugee Service’s community centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A decent internet connection is out of reach for 90 per cent of people in low- and middle-income countries, a report has warned. Copyright: ODI/Gabriel Pecot. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

In developing countries, 90% of citizens lack internet connectivity

General news, SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud11/04/2022Leave a comment

According to a report, decent internet connection is out of reach for 90 per cent of people in low- and middle-income countries, while women’s web exclusion cost poorest countries US$1 trillion in GDP.

Linguist Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, first female vice-chancellor of The University of Ghana. Photo Credit: University of Ghana.

‘Things that hinder women’s potential’

General news, SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud04/04/2022Leave a comment

Unlike their opposite gender, Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, first female vice-chancellor at the University of Ghana, said that women need support to overcome systemic barriers limiting their career potentials.

Adapted from IPCC Working Group II, 2022.

In Global South, millions at risk over early warning system

General news, SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud28/03/2022Leave a comment

In a recently-published study, scientists warned that millions of lives are at risk in climate-vulnerable communities, due to lack of early warning systems for extreme weather conditions.

Pakistan's Balochistan Girl Scouts saying: ‘strong hands stop violence against women and girls’. Researchers have said post-COVID-19 plans must tackle violence against women and girls. Copyright: UN Women/Henriette Bjoerge, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

‘Teenage girls among those who risk partner violence most’

General news, SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud21/03/2022Leave a comment

Domestic violence was ‘highly prevalent’ before COVID-19. But those at a greater risk of facing this violent ‘pandemic’, now, are women and teenage girls in lower-income countries, a study has revealed.

The WHO has announced that six African countries are to receive technology to enable them to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines. Copyright: Image by Hakan German from Pixabay

Tech transfer to bolster Africa’s COVID-19 fight

General news, SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud14/03/2022Leave a comment

Egypt and Nigeria, with other 4 other African countries will soon access the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, along with knowledge needed to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines, courtesy of the World Health Organisation.

A child in Cambodia getting asthma treatment using an inhaler. A study has highlighted rising nitrogen dioxide pollution levels as a leading cause of child asthma in urban areas in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Copyright: PICRYL, Public domain image.

Child asthma cases linked to cities’ dirty air–STUDY

General news, SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud07/03/2022Leave a comment

Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution is the cause of 1.85 million child asthma cases a year, according to a study. The research, however, advised that reducing air pollution should be a crucial part of health strategies for children.

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