Developments
Opportunity or threat? It depends on what you make of it, says Clare Short, Britain's Secretary of State for International Development. She is talking about globalization, the process that brings everyone within one global economy. But does it? What about those...
The southern Philippines island of Aklan has a long tradition of producing mats, holdalls and clothing with locally-grown fibres such as abaca from banana, pina from the pineapple leaf and nito from a wild forest vine. But the products...
White Paper gives research the green light
"If we want a world that shares its knowledge, then we need international institutions like the CGIAR", says Clare Short, Secretary of State for the British Government's Department for International Development. This was her response to...
Almost twenty years ago, the remaining population of indigenous Haitian pigs was wiped out. This unfortunate fact is known because every domestic pig on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which includes both Haiti and the Dominican Republic, was killed to prevent...
The worst certainly appears to have happened in the UK with the nationwide spread of Foot and Mouth Disease: 75 cases had been confirmed and over 250,000 animals slaughtered in the first two weeks of the crisis. A crucial element...
