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Forskningens Døgn 2025: Forskning i Latinamerika med Respekt for Oprindelige folk
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Charcoal Consumption in East Africa: A Climate Change Dilemma
The fight against climate change demands that nations decarbonise their energy grids, but this transition puts contradictory pressures on many Global South countries. For instance, charcoal is the primary energy source for households in Tanzania and Uganda, dictating the social...
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Mozambican Researchers and Civil Society Challenge Systemically Flawed Climate Change Adaptation Solutions in their Country
Despite being one of the countries with the lowest carbon footprint per capita (0.21 vs 6.6 in DK), Mozambique is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Cyclones and floods have intensified in the past decades, devastating infrastructures,...
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Solar Thermal Project Provides Hot Water to Quilpué School
The Luis Cruz Martínez School in Quilpué, a school with a high level of vulnerability, installed a solar panel system to supply renewable energy to its library and other community areas on the campus. Then, its members went a step...
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Pataguas Cerro and La Cebada: The History of the First Community Photovoltaic Plants in the O’Higgins Region
In the middle of fertile valleys that produce corn, wheat, potatoes, oranges, lemons, avocados, peaches and grapes, and with the Cachapoal River as their northern boundary, the inhabitants of the communes of Pichidegua and Las Cabras live 140 kilometers from...
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The IFRO – KNUST partnership: Strengthening higher education and research capacity
The Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO) at University of Copenhagen maintains several long-term research partnerships with African universities. Recently, DDRN had the opportunity to interview two visiting faculty members from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology...
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Wild Animals, the Forbidden Gourmet Dish Served in Ecuador’s Amazon Region
In the Amazonian provinces of Sucumbíos and Pastaza in Ecuador there are restaurants that offer visitors armadillo, guanta or roasted deer soup as an exotic delicacy, even though it is an environmental crime. The dishes made with bushmeat cost between...
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Smart Greenhouse: Efficiency and Ancestral Knowledge to Combat Climate Change
Technological innovation and indigenous tradition can go hand in hand and provide a better quality of life to children and adults in Mapuche communities —who live in rural areas— and at the same time strengthen their traditions. This is the...
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Education Across Borders: How Student Mobility Drives SDGs
In today's globalized era, student mobility has emerged as a crucial driver for sustainable development, positioning itself as a key for achieving the SDGs. This phenomenon drives cultural and academic exchange between nations and plays a fundamental role in the...
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Global South Countries are more Vulnerable to Climate Change than we are in the North
Global climate change has exactly the same consequences in north and south. They are truly global. But the Global South can to a lesser degree afford to defend itself against them, compared with the North. This is an important difference...
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