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Latin America produces 23 percent of the world’s beef, which is the backbone of the flourishing regional livestock sector, although this activity poses a threat to the region’s sustainability. In the picture, a small herd seeks shelter around the only tree in the pasture, in the Argentine pampas.
Stockbreeding generates enormous profits in Latin America, but it also has a broad and varied...
20-month-old Ummi Mustafa and her mother, Maiduguri, Nigeria
The world may have finally woken up to the child hunger emergency in northeastern Nigeria, but...
Four out of six great ape species are now listed as Critically Endangered. Photo courtesy of IUCN
Our closest cousin in the animal world, the Eastern Gorilla, is sliding towards extinction...
Aerial view of Nairobi (left) and Dar es Salaam. PwC predicts that Nairobi.
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 targets “universal and equitable access to safe and...
Karatu District Commissioner, Theresia Mahongo (left) shakes hands with Antasa Primary School head teacher, Farida Makala after the World Vision Tanzania handed over desks and two classrooms at the school
OVER 2,000 children in the drought-stricken district of Karatu will soon start benefiting from...
Savanna elephant populations in 15 countries declined by an average of 30 percent – equal to some 144,000 elephants – between 2007 and 2014.
A dramatic decline in Africa’s savanna elephant populations caused by poaching – as exposed by...
The economic system has important political dimensions, because it is also about the exercise of power.
Social change is needed. What sort of change? People have different visions of a desirable world...
Online debate raised vital questions about how money should flow into universities, and for what purpose.
What is the future of higher education funding in Africa? This was the question asked by SciDev....
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is common in Africa. The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that...
Have you ever been sat on a flight with a crying baby in your vicinity, wondering more and more...
“We are determined to foster an Africa-wide solidarity and unity of purpose of the Peoples of...
Bama, Nigeria. The world may have finally woken up to the child hunger emergency in northeastern...