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Inclusive science must follow the UN Food Systems Summit

If we are to have a chance of ridding the world of hunger, Summit leaders must return to a participatory science model.

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2021/09/23: Hybrid press briefing on the UN Food Systems Summit by Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed in UN Headquarters.

Trump, tribalism and the end of American capitalism

Trump managed to delude the white poor that their interest lies with the wealthy elite. This is killing US capitalism.

Trump supporters Missouri

Female farmers suffer most in Southern Africa drought

Uneven access to water makes household farming questionable for delivering food security in the African context.

Female farmers in Botswana

The dark alliance of global philanthropy and capitalism

It’s a problem if endowment investments generate the very poverty foundations are trying to alleviate.

PHILANTHROPY

Africa’s entrepreneurial dilemma

In some cases, entrepreneurship deepens divides in African societies by aiding those who least need assistance.

U.S. President Obama delivers remarks at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at the United Nations compound in Nairobi, Kenya

Climate change and female farmers in Botswana

Poorer Botswana citizens struggle with increasingly unreliable rain-fed agriculture.

A woman sorts through a pile of cashew nuts as children look on next to a farm owned by former Guinea Bissau army chief General Antonio Indjai outside Mansoa

The limits of new social entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship remains blind to the structural difficulties that the poorest of the poor face.

The truly poor often lack the education and skills needed to fully capitalise on new technology, writes Moseley [EPA]

Artisanal gold mining’s curse on W African farming

Artisanal gold mining is risky and leads to labour shortages in small scale farming.

Many young men give up small-scale agriculture for risky jobs as artisanal gold miners [Reuters]

Graduation advice for aspiring humanitarians

Graduates hoping to embark on an international humanitarian career should not do it to ‘save the world’.

Understanding local culture is important when working in international humanitarianism [EPA]

Why we get fat?

Urbanisation and the proliferation of supermarkets contribute to the fast growing obesity rates.

Changing work regimens coupled with less time to plan and cook meals are also factors in obesity [AFP]