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Education , Food , Gender , Health , Human Rights / 08/04/2016
August 1-7 is Breast feeding Week: time to break stigmas

Marianne Furtado de Nazareth  Women must understand that the traditional concept that a mother hides herself away when breast feeding should be ignored and there is no stigma attached to breastfeeding. We were sitting in Bonefish Grill in Omaha, Nebraska, eating my favourite Bang Bang Shrimp. The w

FAO Food Price Index down slightly in July

The overall drop after five months of growth reflects a slide in prices for grains and vegetable oils Wheat prices fell in July driven by large global supplies and prospects for abundant export availabilities from the Black Sea region. 4 August 2016, Rome – The international prices for major food

Welcome SDGs: Harnessing the opportunity to reform India’s social policy landscape

Oommen Kurian The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of India came out with ‘The Delhi Commitment on Sustainable Development Goal for Health’ that promises to build upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and finish the unfinished agenda Earlier in May, reports indicated

If carbon pricing is so great, why isn’t it working?

Peter Fairley Political hurdles and low prices have made carbon pricing a low-impact affair. But there’s still hope it can help limit climate change. Earth’s atmosphere has long served as a free dump for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases generated by humans. That is changing as policy-ma

Why nature conservationists should be worried about ‘Pokémon Go’

  Falko Buschke In a study, eight-year-olds could identify 78% of Pokémon but just 53% of real species. The experiment showed that an appreciation for Pokémon does not necessarily translate into an appreciation for real species. “Pokémon Go” is a cultural phenomenon. It’s an augmented

Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Food / 07/19/2016
Are sharks going extinct next?

Marianne Furtado de Nazareth 100 million sharks are killed by humans every single year Contrary to what famously terrifying movies like ‘Jaws’ would have their horrified audiences believe, Marine ecologist Neil Hammerschlag says that sharks pose only a very small risk to humans. In fact,

Clean Solar energy, brings light to Kenya’s villages

Marianne de Nazareth Head quartered in Nairobi,  M-KOPA Solar has connected over 375,000 low-income homes  to affordable , safe and clean energy in Africa – with 550 new homes being added every day making them the world’s leading ‘pay-as-you-go’ energy provider to off grid homes Rural Afr

What Africa’s drought responses teach us about climate change hotspots

  Gina Ziervogel, Margaret Angula, Salma Hegga The world may still argue about whether or not climate change is for real. But in vast expanses of arid southern Africa, the daily struggle to cope with a changed climate is well under way. The lessons being learnt here on a small scale could pro

Rickshaw gets upgrade with hemp sidecar

Paul Icamina Filipino and South Korean scientists launched on 1 July a project for the development of a tricycle whose sidecars are made mostly of abaca fibre composites This is the first time abaca will be used as a passenger load-bearing component. The Philippines is the world’s major source of

The Global Economy is Failing 35% of the World’s Talent

The Human Capital Report 2016 finds that globally only 65% of the world’s talent is being optimized through education, skills development and deployment during people’s lifetimes Finland, Norway and Switzerland hold the top spots, utilizing around 85% of their human capital. Japan leads when it

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