Yesterday I was invited to the first WASH-Nutrition Forum. The organisers, the German WASH Network, set it up with half of the participants from the WASH community…
WASH and Nutrition: Opportunities and Challenges from Farm to Faeces
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Tackling Youth Unemployment in Arusha: From Knowledge to Action
One of the consistent battles I face as a researcher is the feeling of uselessness I experience in each and every interview I conduct.
SDGs to the Rescue in Post-2015 Development?
As IDS director Melissa Leach delivered her inspiring, wide-ranging and thought-provoking talk – Equality, sustainability, security: Towards transformations in a global development era – to start our inaugural Global Development seminar series, I pondered the role of superheroes and development solutions.
Land and Commercial Agriculture in Zimbabwe: New Findings
Over the last few years we have been studying the relationships between land, markets and employment in commercial agriculture Zimbabwe.
Africa’s Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change
There is a rush on for African farmland – a phenomenon unmatched since colonial times. Africa’s land rush, and the implications for rural livelihoods and agrarian change…
Bangladesh Can Become a Beacon for Rapid Malnutrition Reduction – If It Chooses To
One of the welcome pieces of news from the 2015 Global Nutrition Report is that Bangladesh, a country with one of the highest undernutrition burdens in the world, is on course to meet global targets for stunting reduction.
Regional Development via Ultra-Premium Cambodian Jasmine Rice
A 2013 report from the World Bank — Where have all the poor gone? — showed that the single factor that lifted more Cambodians out of poverty than anything else, over the last decade, was a global increase in the price of rice.
Ebola and the Changing Environment in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is a country endowed with mineral resources but the amount of revenue that has been generated from the sector has been quite low.
Can New Legislation Hold the Key to Rehabilitating Kenya’s Extractive Sector?
Sustained economic growth for Kenya has been an elusive target. For decades it has been middle-of-the-pack within East Africa, and fallen only slightly above the continental average when measuring GDP growth.
Dietitians for Global Nutrition!
The Forum was organized by the US Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the European Federation of Associations of Dietitians and the International Confederations of Dietetic Associations.
