Biochar: “Triple Wins”, Livelihoods and Technological Promise

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…

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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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…