Early action urged to manage livestock during crises
Feb 11, 2015, 3:00 am By SciDev
Every dollar spent reducing stock sizes during slow-onset emergencies can save hundreds, finds…Lessons from the social response to Ebola
Feb 10, 2015, 11:00 am By SciDevPost-Ebola public health reforms will miss a trick if they ignore insights from anthropology and…‘Gap maps’ show the holes in development evidence
Feb 10, 2015, 8:00 am By SciDev
Interactive tables show where robust evaluations of interventions related to issues such as…Five ways to shake up climate change deliberations
Feb 9, 2015, 8:00 am By SciDev
A summit in Delhi heard some radical ideas about how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…On-farm system turns rice plants into biofuel and fodder
Feb 9, 2015, 7:00 am By SciDevThe technique produces only ethanol and silage, and requires no energy and little kit, say Japanese…Liberians need legal rights to forest, says report
Feb 6, 2015, 5:00 am By SciDevLand rights found to be the best way to protect against deforestation or natural resource…Japan joins Gates’s Grand Challenge on tropical diseases
Feb 5, 2015, 9:00 am By SciDev
The country’s GHIT Fund will coordinate a research group on various neglected tropical diseases.PhD crisis in Uganda’s private universities
Feb 5, 2015, 7:00 am By SciDev
As profit-driven universities mushroom in East Africa, a litany of failings spark fears of poor…Ebola funding held up by ‘inefficient’ WHO alert system
Feb 5, 2015, 2:00 am By SciDevOnly about a third of pledged funding has been paid since the WHO declared an emergency, says…Improving healthcare in post-tsunami Sri Lanka
Feb 5, 2015, 1:00 am By SciDevThis audio slideshow visits Sri Lanka’s resilient healthcare system ten years after the natural…View on Private Sector: The dark side of microfinance
Feb 4, 2015, 12:30 pm By SciDevTech that helps target loans at poor people risks undermining the sector’s good intentions, says…Development is complex but needs simple solutions
Feb 4, 2015, 9:00 am By SciDevDonors increasingly favour complex interventions, but this approach is misguided, says Christopher…Mobile phones to help Ebola vaccine trials
Feb 4, 2015, 2:00 am By SciDevThe MOTECH system will be used to send treatment reminders, assist data collection and train health…Q&A: Putting a price on deaths from vehicle pollution
Feb 3, 2015, 10:00 am By SciDevIn this audio interview, economist Rana Roy discusses new evidence of the toll of air pollution in…Energy security planning hampered by variable indices
Feb 3, 2015, 2:00 am By SciDev
Disparities in how indices rank poorer nations’ energy security makes it hard to assess policy…Portuguese social media tutorial travels the world
Feb 2, 2015, 8:00 am By SciDev
African and Brazilian researchers are using a Portuguese social media guide to discuss science…India takes its own path on energy and climate change
Feb 2, 2015, 7:00 am By SciDevDespite other agreements with the US, India needs the space to increase carbon emissions for a few…SciDev.Net Podcast: Vaccines and design against Ebola
Feb 1, 2015, 8:00 am By SciDevFrom research and design to social media, this month we uncover how the world joined up to tackle…ISIS-held Iraq plagued by health problems
Jan 30, 2015, 2:17 am By SciDev
Islamic State-controlled areas are seeing a decline in health services, medical shortages and water…Harnessing the sun to power a Malawian island
Jan 29, 2015, 10:00 am By SciDev
In this video interview, Collen Zalengera discusses his research into using solar energy to supply…
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