On paper, women in South Africa ought to enjoy the highest status globally. But this has not translated into fundamental freedoms of dignity, safety and security in practice.

Judged against global gender benchmarks, South African women appear to have surpassed...

Malawi’s farm input subsidy benefits the poor and can be part of a viable national development strategy.

Agriculture is Malawi’s main economic sector. It generates one-third of GDP, half of...

There are an estimated three trillion trees in the world. This is 46% less than before the development of agriculture and the expansion of human civilisation over the past 12,000 years. The world loses about 15 billion trees a year.

Over the past 25 years there has...