The idea undergirding these programs—that human fertility is too high and population growth too rapid in the Global South—has a long history in the global health and development fields. Scholars often trace concern around high fertility and population growth as threats to human well-being to T...
Food security is a critical part of the Sustainable Development Goals and government policies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The expression “food security” was introduced in 1974 following famines in the Sahel and Darfur (Gerlach,2015), and was initially focused on the production and availability ...
For example, in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali, in 2017, ASM communities produced an estimated 50 tonnes of gold – more than 50 percent of legally-declared industrial production – which fetched a market value of US$2.02 billion, the bulk of which was exported from the region illicitly (...
In all, the pay budget forecast increased to 4.2%, "which is higher than the low 3% we've seen for 20 years," said Rebecca Toman, vice president of the survey business unit at Pearl Meyer. Among half of the firms saying they are increasing pay budgets, the average is now up t...
The leaks show how Africa is becoming increasingly important for global espionage, with the US and other western states building up their presence on the continent and China expanding its economic influence. One serving intelligence officer told the Guardian: "South Africa is the El Dorado of espio...
You choose jelly bean 267 and hold it in your hand, leaving 999 jelly beans on the stump. Then, while you hold onto jelly bean 267, the man removes 998 jelly beans from the stump and tells you that all 998 of them are poisonous. All that’s left on the stump is jelly bean 749....
than the US as a whole. Even when whites started leaving for other states, the overall California population kept growing at a good clip due to international migration. But now its growth rate (0.4%) has fallen below the national average. Eventually, California may begin losing Congressional ...
The term nanofertilizer indicates that the nanomaterial, which is either a plant nutrient itself (micro- or macro-nutrients) or the carrier of a plant nutrient, is termed a nanofertilizer. Nutrients encapsulated or covered by nanomaterials are also called NFs [24]. NFs can be developed from sy...
Food poverty is just one example of a global challenge where the Arts and Humanities perspective risks being judged at worst to have no relevance at all, and at best to be included as no more than an accessible tool to facilitate public engagement and awareness-raising. How therefore can Arts...