Mining is one of the industries that’s helped by mathematical modelling: models can predict ceiling collapses and keep miners safe.
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The hope is that the biodiversity targets translate directly into what individual countries, cities, companies and even families can adopt as tangible actions.
A vendor holds a tuber of yam for sale at the popular Mile 12 market in Lagos.
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Bolanle Akinwande, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso
By using the simple technique of harvesting when the lower leaves begin to turn to yellow, yam farmers can determine the earliest possible time to harvest.
A man runs through a desert locust swarm in Kitui County, Kenya.
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Over 60% of girls in Ethiopia are married by the age of 18. Many don’t have support in negotiating with their husbands and families to take control of their own fertility.
Tubeho Neza community distributions of household water filters and cookstoves in western Rwanda in 2014.
Evan Thomas
Sexually inexperienced Nigerian students are less confident in their ability to use condoms, increasing their susceptibility to infections and unplanned pregnancies at first sexual activity.
The links between people, animals and the environment call for a new approach to health.
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The interdependency between humans, animals and the environment is becoming more pronounced. This calls for an interdisciplinary approach to health problems.
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand