Issue Post February 10, 2020 India’s 16-point agriculture plan may falter if it doesn’t focus on incentives Sunil Saroj Devesh Roy Mamata Pradhan Ambitious plans to boost farmer income depend on sometimes-overlooked dynamics of participation.

Source: Médecins Sans Frontières Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo Approximately 200,000 people have spontaneously gathered and settled in sites where they fundamentally lack essential needs such as water, food and healthcare. Thousands of people are currently displaced in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), forced to flee from […]

Air pollution blights the lives of untold millions in urban areas worldwide. Long-term exposure to even relatively low levels of polluted air can cause or worsen a wide variety of health problems. So combating air pollution is a must. Turns out, though, that doing so isn’t as simple and straightforward […]

Feb 2, 2020 In the News Under-nutrition and obesity: two sides of the same coin? (Unimondo) Nutrition Unimondo reported on a study published in the Lancet. According to the study, “A new approach must be urgently defined to simultaneously reverse under-nutrition and obesity, because these problems are increasingly interconnected due […]