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Assumption 1: Gender equality is a women’s issue In many climate change policies and projects, gender equality is assumed to be a women’s issue. But in many cases, this participation amounted to women simply being passive recipients of In many climate change policies and projects, gender equality is assumed to be a women’s issue. Finn Thilsted/Flickr information, rather than having an active role in decisions about the design and implementation of initiatives. In the 1980s, targeting wome...

 E-Mail As much as a years worth of past academic progress made by disadvantaged children in the Global South may have been wiped out by school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have calculated. The research, by academics from the University of Cambridge and RTI International, attempts to quantify the scale of learning loss that children from poor and marginalised communities in the Global South may have experienced, and the extent to which home support and access to learning ...

Director General, World Trade Organization Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). She is an economist and international development expert with over 30 years of experience. She was Chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (2016 – 2020), the African Risk Capacity (2014 – 2020) and Co-Chair of The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.  Previously, she served as Senior Advisor at Lazard and sat on the Boards of Standard Chartered...

By Xiaojun Grace Wang | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-03-08 11:24 Share CLOSE A woman walks past a graffiti promoting the fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, on May 22, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] Many would trace the origin of South-South cooperation to the landmark of Asian-African Conference of Bandung in 1955, where developing nations laid down fundamental principles f...

What The Study Did: Researchers assessed the number of hospital admissions for noncommunicable diseases (abnormal tissue growths, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases and musculoskeletal diseases) in São Paulo, Brazil, between January and June last year compared with the corresponding periods in the previous three years. Authors:  Fernando Adami, Ph.D., of the Laboratório de Epidemiologia e Análise de Dados, Centro Universitário Saúde ABC in São Paulo, Brazil, is the correspon...

Share this article Share this article ResearchAndMarkets.coms offering. The global Crop protection chemicals size is estimated to be valued USD 63.7 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach a value of USD 74.1 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 3.1% during the forecast period. The growth of this market is attributed to an increasing need for food security of the growing population. One of the major challenges faced by the crop protection chemicals market is the development of Genetically Mo...

KARACHI: Pakistan has been elected to the chair of Committee on Trade & Development (CTD) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for 2021. In a press release issued late on Thursday, the WTO General Council noted the consensus on a slate of names of chairpersons for WTO bodies, including Pakistan’s ambassador to the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland, Dr Muhammad Mujtaba Pira­cha for heading the CTD. The CTD serves as a focal point for the consideration and coordination of work on development in t...

Adviser to Prime Minister for Commerce and Investment, Abdul Razak Dawood, announced through his Twitter on Friday that Pakistan has been elected to Chair

A doctor who has spent the past year treating COVID-19 patients on Friday became the first person in Nigeria to be vaccinated against the disease, kicking off a mammoth campaign that aims to inoculate 80 million people this year. Vaccinating all of Nigeria's 200 million people and those in other developing countries is seen as key to stemming the global spread of the coronavirus. "I am happy to be the first and I am happy I am not the last," the doctor, 42-year-old Ngong Cyprian...

Disclosure statement Jacqueline Lau works for WorldFish—an international, not for profit research organization and part of the CGIAR that seeks to deliver research for a more food secure world, particularly for societies most vulnerable women and men. This research was supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems and the ARC Centre for Excellence in Coral Reef Studies. Dr. Danika Kleiber, currently at NOAA, contributed to this article. Philippa Cohen works for WorldFish -...