Climate finance in Ghana
An analysis of climate finance flows in Ghana shows that an annual average of USD 830 million was tracked in 2019 and 2020. This is a meagre 5-9% of its required investment — estimated between USD 9.3-15.5
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Exterminate! Exterminate!
New malaria vaccines
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Leveraging competitive advantages: Developing countries role in international fisheries management
Contrary to expectations, fishing countries have established relatively effective management plans for a few international fisheries. The model described in this article explains how such multilateral regulation can evolve in spite of strong political and economic barriers to cooperation.
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Meningococcal carriage in the African meningitis belt
<p>In the African meningitis belt, epidemics of meningococcal disease occur periodically, although unpredictably, every few years. These epidemics continue to cause havoc but new efforts to control the
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Ghana devotes one day out of seven to environment related cases
Ghana's ministry of local government, rural development and environment has said a day should be set aside each week for hearing environment-related cases. "Environmental offences are not being
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Terminator technology
Just before the Conference of Parties (COP) began, news had spread that the big seed companies were trying to slip in text in a resolution to dodge the moratorium on terminator seeds. These seeds are genetically altered to make them sterile and thus prevent reuse. Developing countries and civil society groups came ready to fight against any attempt to undermine the current <i>de facto </i> moratorium on such technologies in place since COP5.<br>
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Causes of low productivity of cocoa in Ghana: farmers' perspectives and insights from research and the socio-political establishment
<p>Ghana is a major producer of cocoa in the world and relies heavily on the crop for foreign exchange revenue. However, production declined since the mid-1960s, reaching its lowest level in 1983. Although
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How effective is the global polio eradication drive?
An optimistic note, about wiping out polio from the six afflicted countries, was to be sounded at a conference organised by the World Health Organisation in Geneva on January 15. Instead, the sudden re emergence of the disease in two African nations Ben
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Pest mismanagement
The Pesticides Action Network reports lacunae in World Bank projects
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No water, no vote
The residents of Teshie, a fishing town in the suburbs of Ghana's capital city of Accra, have announced their plans to boycott the elections scheduled for December 2004 if they do not get adequate
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Ghana
A British zoologist has been banned from Ghana's Bui National Park, which will soon be flooded as a result of the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Black Volta river. "I was not allowed to