Month: November 2013

Climate change is exacting a heavy price on worldwide agricultural production and smallholder farmers in developing countries are one of the most vulnerable groups, since the ecosystems they depend upon...

Employers in the private sector have strongly kicked against further hike in percentage contribution to the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), arguing that it will cut deeper into the bottom-line of...

The developing world is becoming more vulnerable to a variety of shocks and stressors, from extreme weather events, climate change and environmental degradation to population pressures, macroeconomic crises, conflict, and...

Nigeria is plagued with various socio-economic challenges, with most of them taking their roots from poverty and the statistics of nearly all development indices mostly stacked against Africa’s second largest...