Humanitarians turn sights on climate risk
By Anita Makri There’s growing momentum to factor climate change into humanitarian work, Anita Makri reports. It’s a treacherous road to the US-Mexico border. Much like a war zone, says …
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Q&A: Science is still biased towards staple crops
By Anita Makri 12/11/18 This year’s world food security report found world hunger rising for the third year in a row. The report cited climate change and conflict as the …
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Poverty reduction may stall – report
By Anita Makri Extreme poverty is getting more and more concentrated in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, says the Gates Foundation in a report whose findings are backed up by estimates …
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DRC first to approve widespread use of Ebola drugs
By Anita Makri For the first time doctors have been given the go-ahead to deploy experimental drugs for all patients in an Ebola outbreak, according to the WHO. Its latest …
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Sex differences give wrong message, gender experts say
By Anita Makri Studies on how men and women differ in their brain biology get too much attention and are used wrongly to draw conclusions about aptitudes for science, according …
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Q&A: Development is about Complex Systems, not Beneficiaries
By Anita Makri Current crises call for non-linear thinking and true partnership, says Indian scholar Vandana Shiva. Today’s society can be understood in terms of probabilities and complex relationships, concepts …
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