Poor childhood conditions, such as exposure to poverty and stunting, are associated with long-term disadvantages to health, education, social adjustment and earnings.
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A study in Malawi shows how the participation of local community leaders in policy development can change men’s attitudes to maternal and child health for the better.
The development community has overlooked the ethical dilemmas associated with raising one individual above others through farmer-to-farmer systems.
It’s important to create spaces where the global South’s problems can be presented, debated and solutions developed - including some that can be applied in similar economies.
The world’s best known talk show host has become the president-elect of the most powerful country in the world. Trump running the US is unlikely to be good news for Africa.
One needs to understand Malawian politics to appreciate the bizarre episode in which a state president was unaccounted for a month, leaving a nation rudderless and puzzled.
A number of African states are taking positive steps to combat violence against girls and child marriage. But social and cultural barriers can nullify national laws and strategies.
Since 2000, the growth of the commercial seed market has almost tripled. More than 63% of the world’s commercial seed is now owned by six corporations.
Higher education is a resource intensive enterprise. It cannot effectively function without a massive injection of resources in a sustained and escalated manner.
Poor people with disabilities living in rural South Africa are particularly disadvantaged when it comes to accessing health care.
Increasing legume production can turn the tide for African farmers who struggle with poor soils, declining farm yields and worsening nutrition in one fell swoop
Hair has long been modified for aesthetic and other ends. But skewed power structures have meant that women, particularly women of colour, have borne the brunt of stereotyping and prejudice.
In the dying days of empire, the British financed a global cinema service.
Economic growth alone won’t end hunger. Good policies and programmes are needed, too. Scientists and researchers have a role to play in these initiatives.
Despite high levels of knowledge and information, communities still adhere to cultural practices which endanger their children.
Mozambican civilians are again bearing the consequences of war between the government and opposition party Renamo. How has Renamo mobilised popular support for a new uprising?
There is belief among some that climate change drives human displacement, but research in Malawi suggests otherwise.
More pupils in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa are taking smartphones to school. These can be useful learning tools – or terrible distractions.
Religious leaders have done little to help combat institutionalised homophobia – and some have flat-out encouraged it.
Malawi shows how micro and small business, with a bit of help from volunteers, can grow and create jobs
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Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Malawi
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in Media and Communications, University of Malawi
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Director & SARChI Research Chair: Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, University of Pretoria
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Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Durham University
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Associate professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, College of Nursing
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Professor of Economics and Lead Researcher, Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, UJ, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Hull
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Senior Director, Transformation Strategies Department, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR System Organization
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Associate Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and African Climate and Development Initiative Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Health Systems and Policy, University of Malawi
