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    Food crisis in Africa: the high cost of imported fertilisers is adding to the problem

      Simon Roberts, Professor of Economics and Lead Researcher, Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, University of Johannesburg Ntombifuthi Tshabalala, Economist at Centre for Competition,...

    Africa’s groundbreaking women’s rights treaty turns 20 – the hits and misses of the Maputo protocol

      Anthony Idowu Ajayi, Associate research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center   2023 marks two decades since the adoption of the Maputo Protocol. The Protocol...

    Debunking migration myths: the real reasons people move, and why most migration happens in the global south – podcast

      Avery Anapol, Commissioning Editor, Politics + Society, The Conversation Weekly Podcast Mend Mariwany, Producer, The Conversation Weekly, The Conversation Weekly Podcast   Around the world, borders between...

    Les océans d’Afrique sont protégés pour servir les intérêts des grandes entreprises étrangères

      Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, Lecturer, University of St Andrews Freedom C. Onuoha, Professor of Political Science, University of Nigeria   Les précieuses ressources océaniques de l'Afrique ont suscité l'intérêt...

    Les entreprises familiales, discrètement plus vertes

      Paul-Olivier Klein, Maitre de Conférences en Finance, iaelyon School of Management – Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Marcin Borsuk, Research fellow, University of Cape Town Nicolas...

    It’s not just climate – we’ve already breached most of the Earth’s limits. A safer, fairer future means treading lightly

      Steven J Lade, Resilience Researcher, Australian National University Ben Stewart-Koster, Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University Stuart Bunn, Professor, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University Syezlin Hasan, Research Fellow,...

    How dirty old used cars from the US and Europe carry on polluting … in Africa – podcast

      Daniel Merino, Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation Mend Mariwany, Producer, The Conversation Weekly   The typical car will go for...

    La COI face aux défis des iles du Sud-Ouest de l’Océan Indien

      Philippe Boullé, former Director, United Nations Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), and former Senior Technical Advisor for the ISLANDS Financial...

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