A Global Research Council, announced this week, has agreed on six principles for reviewing research grant applications.

Five more African countries have met the Maputo Declaration goal of investing ten per cent of their national budgets in agriculture.

Africa's newly revealed groundwater may not be easy to tap into because of political and technical challenges, experts warn.

A report on United States health R&D has urged Washington to increase its focus on translational research and product development.

Young researchers in Côte-d'Ivoire are to benefit from new research funds targeting projects in sustainable development and poverty alleviation.

Newspaper reports say scientists are struggling due to a national S&T system that isn’t working effectively.

Egypt's presidential candidates have promised to boost the national science research budget to up to six per cent of GDP.

Canada's International Development Research Centre is to close two of its six global offices following heavy budget cuts.

Major candidates vying for the Mexican presidency have given their support to greater S&T investment and a science ministry.

Ministers attending an all-Africa science and technology forum have pledged to strengthen and increase ST&I research and funding.

Researchers at the Africa Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation discuss proposals for a "National Science Foundation" for Africa

Delegates at an all-Africa conference on science, technology and innovation say innovation and entrepreneurship should be taught in universities.

Some BRICS countries have joined eight developed nations to create a new funding mechanism for international environmental research.

An international commission of senior scientists has launched a charter for action on food security for different sectors of society.

Preliminary details of a new indicator known as Inclusive Wealth were released today, revealing more modest success for Brazil and India than indicated by GDP.

A new European–African wind energy association has been launched in principle at a conference in Morocco.

India’s crop research gets ignored, with priority given to atomic energy, defence and space in the 2012-13 outlay for science.

Agriculture ministers from Burundi, DRC and Rwanda have agreed to renew funding for a research institute that has been dormant since 2009.

UNESCO's executive board has voted in favour of a controversial life sciences prize — but questions still hang over its future.

The International Union of Forest Research Organisations says there's too little focus on forests in the Rio Summit draft agreement.