How power shaped the ‘success story’ of genetically modified cotton in Burkina Faso

Many GM crops in Africa are not the domain of big agri-business companies. This doesn’t mean vested interests won’t still shape …

BURKINA FASO

Chemical warfare

Time to get new bed nets

These 3 Cs can increase food insecurity in Africa, warn experts

There will be chronic hunger in the next 10 years if timely action is not taken, an expert said

Burning cheaper

The introduction of new models of stoves in Burkina Faso may reduce the pressure on forests

How desertification is silently fueling conflicts

More than 100 countries are at the risk of desertification. Left unchecked, this could fuel conflicts and displace 700 million people worldwide …

The black genie

Gene encoding a mutant form of haemoglobin provides Africans protection from malaria

Africa's big little anti-GM revolution

Burkina Faso's farmers have thrown out Monsanto's Bt cotton and returned to conventional seeds, with a little help from India.

Gut factor

Why people in the West are more prone to allergies?

Land degradation a major threat but avoidable. So why the inaction

'None of the countries have set numerical targets for land degradation neutrality'

COVID-19 pandemic can slow progress in policy making for healthy ageing in Africa: WHO

Low literacy rates among elderly made access to online health services difficult

Unfair fields: Asymmetric WTO rules let US inflate cotton subsidies must be reformed

Cottton farmers in India and other Global South countries, like the Afican C-4 of benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, at peril …

Millions of displaced people face dual hardship of COVID-19: Report

Wars, conflict and natural disasters displaced 14.6 million people in 127 countries from January-June 2020

UNDP-UNEP initiative help African countries move towards green economy

Governments focus on public resource allocation for pro-poor sustainability

Living with lions

How effective is the global polio eradication drive?

An optimistic note, about wiping out polio from the six afflicted countries, was to be sounded at a conference organised by the World Health …

Farmers in Burkina Faso give smart answer to climate change

Adoption of innovative techniques restores 300,000 ha of degraded land

UN to cut food supplies to African refugees

The drastic cut will affect 800,000 people in the African continent

Meningitis epidemic in Burkina

Meningitis concern across Africa

Meningitis concern across Africa

Riots over food security in Burkina Faso

Meningitis outbreak begins in West Africa

Rotterdam Convention meet: no consensus on including herbicide paraquat in the prior informed consent list

120 nations had agreed to the listing, but India and Gautemala played spoilsport

WTO says US failed on subsidies