Water Scarcity

In 1998, Amartya Sen was awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences by the Nobel Committee for his work in development economics, but Sen is probably best known for what was essentially a political insight: that the key cause of modern era famines is authoritaria…

By Riaan GroblerVarious role players in the agriculture and land reform sectors have come out in full support of newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza. With the tough task of implementing government's land r…

Various role players in the agriculture and land reform sectors have come out in full support of newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza.  With the tough task of implementing government's land reform resting o…

IMAGE: During a prolonged drought, annual crop fields can be left fallow without causing lasting economic damage, but almond groves, such as these in California's Central Valley, require consistent irrigation to... view more  Credit: Steven Davis / UCI Ir…

With the Paris Agreement in 2015, nearly 200 nations submitted plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Because it was clear, however, that these measures would not be nearly enough to meet the Paris goals, the agreement stipulated that states would submit comm…

CHICAGO, May 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the new market research report "Drip Irrigation Market by Component (Emitters, Drip Tubes/Drip Lines, Filters, Valves, and Pressure Pumps), Emitter/Dripper Type (Inline and Online), Application (Surface and S…

Hamilton, Canada — Post-secondary education relevant to the global water crisis is concentrated in wealthy countries rather than the poorer, developing places where it is needed most. Meanwhile, water research is largely assessed by counting the number of pa…

So I previously wrote about a few funds dedicated to investing according to religious values. There are also funds dedicated to investing according to social values. The iShares MSCI Global Impact ETF (SDG) is one such fund that is dedicated to investing acco…

This quickly brought them back to the reason they were all there. In 2018, after a terrible drought, Cape Town almost reached Day Zero, a day when all the city's water taps would be shut off. Even now, the residents had to let the mountain fires persist, as t…

Post-secondary education and research aimed at tackling the global water crisis is concentrated in wealthy countries rather than the poorer, developing places where it is most needed, the United Nations University says. Two new papers from the UNU's Canadian…