social conflict

Making food safer and sustainable

Greater investments in science, technology and innovative practices can transform food systems, and ensure steady supplies, nutrition, and access

The push for large-scale monoculture plantations of oil palm is taking a toll on the environment and on people’s economic and social security.

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It’s not only the physical challenges but also the mental side of living in Antarctica that would make a permanent human settlement there difficult.

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As Vladimir Putin wins another term in the Kremlin, his use of sham elections to legitimise his control poisons democracy’s value globally.

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Dire economic prospects are opening the door for an angry world of emotional manipulation that is targeting young men.

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Analysts have suggested there’s a secret Chinese government campaign trying to influence the referendum. Here’s why that’s highly unlikely.

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The refugee as ‘other’ has emerged as a common theme in literature from India’s north-east, after the region saw an influx of people following 1947’s Partition.

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We better get used to facing tough ethical dilemmas, as environmental destruction forces some tangled conundrums.

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The latest iteration of global protest transcends lines of class and race, but hasn’t always translated to concrete policy change.

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