“10 Women Who Inspire Me” A Special Contribution From Danielle Nierenberg

10 Inspiring Women

Throughout September 2012, Worldwatch Institute celebrated the crucial role that women and youth play in ushering in the just and environmentally sustainable future that we’re working hard to bring about. Even in the 21st century, women own less than 15 percent of the world’s land, earn 17 percent less than men on average, and comprise […]

Fighting for Equality: The Hijra in Bangladesh & Beyond

Hijra

Hijras have for a long time been entertaining spectators on the big screens of South Asia. In the Hindi movie Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), for example, they accompanied one of the heroes, Akbar (Rishi Kapoor), in a song entitled “Tayyab Ali Pyar Ka Dushman” (“Tayyab Ali, the Enemy of Love”). Many other films portray their […]

Teaching Failed States to Function

Education

In recent years, international relations experts have debated the question of nation building – the process of constructing a functioning state that involves the creation or establishment of the institutions, public services, and security associated with a sovereign nation. Until recently, born out of U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which are considered […]

The Bio Village: Upscaling Biodiversity in Bangladesh

Bio

Bangladesh has already achieved 40 years of independence and the development of the agricultural sector has been tremendous. It has been accelerated and transformed through innovative agricultural development projects and technologies of the International Rice Research Institute, as well as collaborations of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, BRAC Agriculture Unit and other […]

Get Monsanto Out of Nepal: An Interview with Sabin Limbu

Monsanto

On September 13, 2011, USAID announced a partnership with Monsanto and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MOAC) for introducing and promoting hybrid maize seeds in Nepal. The move became a controversial one and a group of activists formed a nationwide campaign ‘Stop Monsanto in Nepal’. The campaigners also organized a sit-in protest in front […]

The Branch Foundation: Supporting Sustainable Futures for Marginalised People in South-East Asia.

Cambodia

Unrecognised as a people by governments or, sometimes, even the United Nations, the Karen, Karenni and Shan groups have, for decades, lived hand to mouth in makeshift refugee camps along the Thai/Burma border. Gareth Mace shines a light on one organisation that has given hope to some of the most marginalised in the region. The north […]

GSDM January 2012 focus on Rebuilding Failed States: OUT NOW

Failed

The much awaited January edition of Global South Development Magazine is now out and available to download for free. Review and Full Contents are available HERE