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News, views and information about science, technology and the developing world
Sub-Saharan Africa must improve its scientific and technological capacity if it is to boost socio-economic development. But experts disagree on how to improve this capacity.
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Opinions and Analysis
Africa Analysis: Progress on science spending?
After 2006's commitment to one per cent GDP spending on science, is Africa keeping up, falling behind or investing, asks Linda Nordling.
29 October 2009
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CGIAR reforms make research decision-making distant
CGIAR reforms take research decisions too far away, says Hartmann, director-general of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
6 October 2009
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Policy Briefs
Fostering technological capabilities in sub-Saharan Africa
Manufacturers in sub-Saharan Africa need policy support at all levels if their technological capabilities are to catch up with other developing countries. Carlo Pietrobelli looks at problems and solutions.
1 November 2006
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News and Features
GM potato gets roasting in South Africa
South African researchers have lodged an appeal against their government's rejection of a genetically modified potato.
Insecticide 'wallpaper' lethal to malaria mosquitoes
Using sheeting impregnated with insecticide may be easier, and less toxic, than wall-spraying.
30 October 2009
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Financial crisis squeezes African science funding
22 October 2009
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