July 16

• Africa: Child Hunger Takes Heavy Toll On Africa's GDP

  Child undernutrition costs African nations up to 16.5 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP), according to a series of reports looking at social and economic consequences... Read more »

• Africa: Desperately Seeking Scientific Independence [opinion]

  An 'UnConference' has encouraged a different take on the issues behind the continent's path to scientific autonomy. Read more »

July 15

• Africa: Global Crop Yields Fail to Keep Pace With Demand

  The world is not increasing yields of major crops quickly enough to meet future food demands from an expanding population, presenting a "looming and growing agricultural crisis",... Read more »

July 12

• Africa: Online Tool Can Boost ICT Projects

  An online tool that can help developing countries plan and implement information and communications technology (ICT) projects could cut failure rates and costs, the latter by up to... Read more »

• Africa: Treaty Eases Access to Books for the Visually Impaired

  An international treaty that ensures that visually impaired people will have easier access to books has been unanimously adopted by member states of the UN's World Intellectual... Read more »

July 11

• Egypt: Science Ministry Fails to Spend Enlarged Budget

  Egyptian researchers have raised alarm over news that the government, before it was unseated by the military, failed to spend a quarter of the one billion Egyptian pounds (about... Read more »

July 10

• Africa: Nations Debate Knowledge As Property vs Right

  Developed and developing nations aired their fundamentally different attitudes on access to science and technology for development at a high-level meeting last week, according to... Read more »

July 09

• Africa: Young Scientists Are Missing Out On Vital Skills

  Technologies and knowledge-based approaches that address many pressing global sustainability issues already exist - but their adoption is often blocked by a lack of public trust,... Read more »

• Africa: Satellite Model Could Help Predict Landslides in Remote Areas

  Satellite data could not only identify hotspots for landslides, but could also play a part in predicting these potentially devastating events, particularly in remote mountainous... Read more »

• Africa: The Scientific Ripples From the Edge of the Arab Spring

  What has the Arab Spring brought to science in countries that did not see a regime change? SciDev.Net investigates. Read more »

July 08

• Africa: Rotavirus Vaccine Proves Itself 'On the Ground'

  A WHO-recommended vaccine for rotavirus infection has proved effective in Bolivia, the first low-income country to introduce it, researchers have reported. Read more »

July 05

• Africa: Global Desert Energy Project Hit By Key Partner's Exit

  A global project that aims to tap the world's deserts for renewable energy has lost a key partner, it was announced earlier this week (1 July). Read more »

July 04

• Africa: Developing Nations Hailed As Most-Efficient Innovators

  Developing countries are the most efficient innovators, achieving results in areas such as scientific research, infrastructure and technology production with relatively low inputs,... Read more »

• Africa: Bioenergy and Food Security Need Linked Policy, Says UN

  Biofuels' impact on global food security can be lessened by linked food and energy policies, says a panel of independent experts that is also calling for more research and... Read more »

July 02

• Senegal: Tools Trialled to Curb Post-Harvest Millet Loss

  New tools for processing pearl millet are to be sent for testing in Senegal as part of a project which has just received a U.S.$100,000 grant. Read more »

• Africa: Innovative Finance Can Boost Global Health Research and Development [opinion]

  Whatever the exact numbers, few would dispute that only a small fraction of health R&D funding targets conditions in poor countries that account for most of the global disease... Read more »

• Africa: Poor Nations 'Can Take a Lead' in Post-2015 Agenda

  The least developed countries (LDCs) - those nations with the lowest socioeconomic indicators - have plenty to offer the sustainable development agenda, but they must organise... Read more »

July 01

• Africa: Food Security Needs 'More Holistic' Agriculture

  Agricultural experts have called for more holistic agricultural innovation to achieve global food security. Read more »

June 28

• Africa: Aid Project Accountability 'Can Transform Impact'

  There is a widespread belief across the global development sector that aid project accountability is not only a moral obligation, but can also transform project effectiveness,... Read more »

• Africa: Africa Misses Out As Science Journalist Conference Heads to South Korea

  Africa has lost out on another opportunity to host the world's largest gathering of science journalists, the World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ). Read more »

June 27

• Africa: Maps Reveal 'Hidden Hunger' That Stifles Development

  The lack of vital micronutrients in children's diets - deficiencies that are widespread across much of Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia - is strongly linked to low levels of... Read more »

• Africa: Q&A - ILRI's Jimmy Smith On Novel Livestock Science [interview]

  Research into livestock cloning, gene banks and vaccines could result in more robust animals, ILRI's director-general tells SciDev.Net. Read more »

June 17

• Kenya: Carbon Projects for Smallholder Farmers Can 'Reduce Poverty'

  Projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on small-scale farms can help African farmers access carbon markets and reduce poverty, and should be scaled-up, according to a policy... Read more »

June 14

• Africa: Voice Tech Helps Africa Get Online

  Funding for a project to deliver voice-based technologies that enable illiterate people in rural Africa to access the web - even those without an Internet connection or a computer... Read more »

June 13

• Africa: Chinese 'Container Hospitals' Ready to Deploy

  Africa's first 'container hospital', developed by Chinese scientists, could be ready for use by the end of the month (June), following two years of development. Read more »