Global Warming: Heat Waves Test Human Endurance in South Asia
by The summer of 2022 will be remembered as a brutal season in the history of climate change. Heatwaves killed at least 90 people in India …
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Bolivian Researcher Carla Colque-Little Throws Light on the Superfood-crop Quinoa
by Carla Colque-Little specializes in diseases of one of the star crops from Bolivia – quinoa. A plant that many countries – for instance, Denmark – …
Chile Faces the Mega Drought Looking for Technical and Social Solutions
According to data provided by the UN, by 2025 half of the world’s population will live in areas of water scarcity, making it essential to …
Women, motherhood, and science in Colombia
Efforts to reverse trends of disengagement with studies, normalize motherhood in universities, and counteract gender disparities. Four stories, like cardinal points, to better understand the …
Podcast: “A Sustainable Holiday Season” Research and Practical Approaches Emphasizing Food
In December 2021, DDRN hosted an online seminar that focused on research and civil society initiatives emphasizing food. The connection between food and the climate …
India’s Covid Vaccination Capabilities: Major Supplier of Vaccines in Global South but Gaps in Own Strategies
India hosts the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturing units in the world and is expected to play a major role in providing vaccines to the Global …
Girls drop out of school because of menstruation
Silence about menstruation In many countries in the Global South menstruation is still perceived as taboo. During the time of menstruation girls and women must …
Older people in Denmark were mostly worried about other people getting infected with COVID-19
During the pandemic and the ensuing restrictions, the general picture in Denmark has been that older people have been much more worried about other people …
COVID-19’s extra torture on Kenya’s elderly
In the thick trees on the outskirts of Kisumu City in Kenya, a hut is as isolated as the 76-year-old woman who owns and lives …
“Up here, it is as if the pandemic did not exist”
Seeing the capital from up here, in the hills high above the rooftops, our perspective changes. The distance is small, but mentally, this is another …