Food waste index report 2024
The Food Waste Index Report 2024 builds upon its predecessor in three key ways: Firstly, it incorporates vastly expanded data points from around the world, providing a significantly more robust global
The Food Waste Index Report 2024 builds upon its predecessor in three key ways: Firstly, it incorporates vastly expanded data points from around the world, providing a significantly more robust global
Human migration has had a major effect on the spread of tuberculosis throughout the course of human history. In modern times, geographic barriers have been easily overcome, and mass migration reached unprecedented levels in the latter half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. Nearly 1 billion
The epidemiology of malaria makes surveillance-based methods of estimating its disease burden problematic. Cartographic approaches have provided alternative malaria burden estimates, but there remains widespread misunderstanding about their derivation and fidelity.
The public is dubious about climate change, and libertarian sceptics are on the march. How can we improve matters, asks Roger Harrabin.
Urmi A Goswami BONN AT BONN
Gender inequalities in biomedical research are undermining patient care. In the first of three related pieces, Alison M. Kim, Candace M. Tingen and Teresa K. Woodruff call on journals, funding agencies and researchers to give women parity with men, in studies and in the clinic.
In comments that clearly showed his frustration at the slow pace of negotiations, the UN
For the past one week, negotiators from all over the world have been meeting in Bonn to take forward the unfinished work of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference last December and prepare the ground for the completion of global comprehensive agreement in the next conference in Cancun, Mexico, slated at the end of this year.
Much of the problems associated with the application of technology can be traced to the absence of any social science input into the foundation or structuring of science research in our contemporary world. Civil society interventions are almost invariably seen as irritants to science, while Weberian experts are expected to understand the social impact of the adaptation of new technologies.
Solving the predicaments facing women is a crucial development objective. But it is also a neglected instrument for health. Women and girls make up 60% of the world's poorest people and two-thirds of the world's illiterate people.
<p>Up-to-date information on the causes of child deaths is crucial to guide global efforts to improve child survival. The authors report new estimates for 2008 of the major causes of death in children younger than 5 years.</p>