Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

The Global NARS Consortium’s revolutionary approach to food security

To date, agricultural research has been mostly geared to issues relevant to high-income nations. Developing countries’ national agricultural research systems (NARS) deserve much more influence – and a new consortium is being established to serve that purpose. ...

Sex education

Face the truth

Nigeria’s incidence of teenage pregnancies is unacceptably high

Contraception

Facts and figures on family planning

Young women, in particular, are unable to use contraceptives and plan their families as they wish

Education and contraception

Self-determined life for women

Societal norms and lack of equality stand in the way of modern family planning and contraception

Finances

Village banking changes lives

In Malawi, villagers set up their own saving funds

Editorial

Unfinished business

There needs to be societal change to prevent unwanted pregnancies and promote female equality

Health care

Investing in the world’s poorest children

According to UNICEF, supporting the world’s poorest children is twice as effective as supporting those who are less poor

Democracy

The ANC’s real crisis

The ANC’s big problem is that it has not brought about the social change it promised in the anti-Apartheid struggle

Women’s health

Avoidable surgical interventions

India has too many unsafe abortions – and too many Caesarean sections

Women’s health

Still a distant dream

Despite considerable progress, India’s maternal mortality rate remains very high

Employment

Pakistan needs jobs

Reasons to doubt the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor will massively boost employment in Pakistan