Biochar is a carbon-rich product that results when biomass is burned under oxygen-deprived conditions. There is both technological optimism and debate about its potential. The addition of biochar to soils…
Biochar: “Triple Wins”, Livelihoods and Technological Promise
CLTS: Challenges and opportunities
Access to sanitation is vital to people’s health and well-being, particularly women. In the past, sanitation has been provided through top-down, supply-oriented approaches. Now, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) offers another…
HIV/AIDS, Forests and Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa
Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) pandemic is having devastating and tragic social, economic, and political impacts. HIV/AIDS is both a health issue and a development…
Biocharred Pathways to Sustainability? Triple Wins, Livelihoods and the Politics of Technological Promise
‘Biochar’ is currently the focus of extraordinary levels of both technological optimism and debate. As a substance, biochar refers quite simply to the carbon-rich product that results when biomass –…
Going with the Flow? Directions of Innovation in the Water and Sanitation Domain
Water and sanitation issues are looming large on the international agenda, not least due to the impetus created by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to halve, by 2015, the proportion…
Chinese version: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto
Chinese (Mandarin) translation of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto.
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Brazilian Portuguese translation of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto.
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Arabic translation of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto.
Foot and Mouth Disease and Market Access: Challenges for the Beef Industry in Southern Africa
Focusing on the case of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in southern Africa – and specifically Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe – this paper explores the economic, social and…
Beyond Scaling Up: improving access to health services
Ill health is still a major human problem and a high burden for many countries, despite the availability of effective interventions. Growing impatience with this situation, at both national and…