Patience ‘wearing thin’ among UK scientists as funding barriers erected by Brexit cause delays one year on
It has been just over a year since UK scientists celebrated a long-awaited trade deal between their government and the European Commission that defines their relationship after Brexit. After years of uncertainty, researchers welcomed the pact, which had wide ranging effects on science, including on data regulation, nuclear and space...
In ever-widening tempest of climate change, Haiti cries out for support to end hunger-related human strife
Yet even before the 2010 earthquake, farmers in Haiti had “no financial back-up, no technology, no education”, says Fritz Alphonse Jean, president of the Haitian Public Policy Institute (INHOPP) and a former governor of the Haitian Central Bank (BRH). “If you look at the credit allocated to the agricultural sector...
Haiti was largely food secure until mid-1980s when US and foreign agencies forced it to liberalise its economy
Hunger was never far away when Angeline Annesteus was growing up. The daughter of subsistence farmers in Bercy, southern Haiti, she remembers going for days without much food. That was more than 30 years ago. Food insecurity is even more pressing now. Around 4.3 million people, more than one in...
Planned 2023 elections is a remote hope in South Sudan where violence is the currency in which political power is traded
Loans from the International Monetary Fund over the last two years have helped stave off a total collapse of the government of South Sudan, but the state has nevertheless almost entirely withdrawn from the provision of services and wages for regional authorities. In Warrap, the government is conspicuous by its...
As world grapples with ever-mutating Covid, new highly virulent HIV variant found circulating in Europe
A highly transmissible and damaging variant of HIV has been circulating in the Netherlands for decades, researchers have found. An analysis of more than 100 infected people suggests that the variant boosts the number of viral particles in a person’s blood, making them more likely to transmit the virus. The...
