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African Women in Agriculture Research and Development is helping researchers bring the fruits of their labour to those who most need it.

While great advances have been made in the lab, GM mosquitoes are still a long way from being airborne, reports Katherine Nightingale.

With a bit of imagination, technologies can be made cheap enough for the poor, but investors are needed, finds Kafil Yamin.

A successful vaccine trial, new drugs, and improved understanding have given new hope to the HIV/AIDS research community.

Uganda's president wants to use new-found oil money to fund science and cut aid. But is he striking out too soon, asks Linda Nordling?

A better understanding of the wide genetic diversity of indigenous African livestock is needed to secure current and future productivity.

Traditional and modern medicine have much to offer each other despite their differences. Priya Shetty assesses an uneasy relationship.

The barriers to mainstream medical approval are great but some traditional treatments are finding new routes to acceptance, finds Yojana Sharma.

Freshwater supplies are limited, says a report, and to continue with present water-use practices would be "to invite disaster".

Hindu-Kush-Himalayan countries need to share data and collaborate better to tackle climate change, Andreas Schild tells SciDev.Net.

The development of more nutritious cassava varieties — using non-GM methods — could alleviate malnutrition in the developing world.

With proper supervision, developing countries' students can excel and contribute to science research, as the recent TB genome mapping shows.

The fruits of science and technology in developing countries can be useful to the West, but it does not always recognise them.

As Ug99, the deadly fungus blighting African wheat, marches eastward, scientists across the globe are scrambling for ways to outsmart it.

What will the Gates Foundation's links to a network of agricultural research centres mean for tackling hunger, asks Yojana Sharma?

Solar power could help alleviate rural poverty. David J. Grimshaw and Sian Lewis shine a light on its progress, potential and pitfalls.

Solar power can light the homes of the off-grid poor, but how can people buy the equipment? Pinaki Roy and Katherine Nightingale report.

Kenyan meteorologists are joining forces with traditional rainmakers to deliver communities weather forecasts as climate change takes hold.

With artificial glaciers and more, a Himalayan region is regaining food self-sufficiency, writes Surabhi Pudasaini.

Scientists in the Democratic Republic of Congo don't have the resources to monitor the country's volatile volcanoes adequately.