From coca to cacao agroforestry – a sustainable livelihood strategy in the Peruvian Amazon
by ‘’Plato or Plumo’’. There is no other way I could start this article than by mentioning the famous intimidating words of Pablo Escobar, the drug …
Category: Social Sciences
Fake Nutrition News: How to Counteract Misinformation when Promoting Good Health and Well-Being
In August 2018, the Danish Government presented a new official food and health strategy to oppose bad eating habits and reduce negative effects lifestyle diseases …
Can a pest species earn you more than the principal crop?
This article is about my master’s fieldwork experience in Ghana, where I looked into the contribution of an edible pest species to rural livelihoods in …
Gender equality / News / Peace, justice and strong institutions / Reduced inequalities / Social Sciences
Equity and gender equality after Covid19 – Lockdown violence and cashless cities under the pandemic
Coronavirus restrictions and sexual assault are intensely debated these days among the Danish public. Even though these discussions are not necessarily interrelated, we have seen …
New research 2020 – CASH-IN: privately managed cash transfers in Africa
by On 1 September 2020, a major research effort was launched for a duration of five years to study whether privately managed cash transfers are able …
Multidisciplinary collaboration to secure the future of water in Cape Town
In 2018, the City of Cape Town declared a city-wide water crisis, which would be punctuated by ‘Day Zero’ – the day the city would run out of water. The drought had been looming for years, and the City of Cape Town had made some management changes, but all rested on the assumption that rain would fall at the same rate as in the past.