Are GMO crops the right way to go for Africa? Scientists seem to disagree, reports Npong Francis. ...

The campaign for the Robin Hood Tax, a financial transactions tax (FTT) to tackle poverty and climate change, has hotted up in recent months. ...

Four African leaders are participating in this year’s G8 summit at Camp David, USA, on May 19 for a discussion. Is it going to be a real partnership for change? ...

I can still remember (me and Giedre were there) that early morning on the last day of the 2010 COP16 UN Climate Change Summit in Cancun, Oxfam unveiled a giant sand sculpture of Mexican farmers called for concrete action for the sake of the millions of poor people around the world who are already feeling the effects of climate change. Farmers all over the world feel that agriculture is extremely vulnerable ...

One of the ideas driving ThinkBrigade is the need to find new collaborative ways to communicate complex, global events that elude compression into a simple linear narrative; ways to see the eddying structures in the stream and immediate events in their wider systemic context. News cartography – the creation of dynamic, interactive, collaboratively editable and shareable maps of the stories – is one of the m ...