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The session examines the interests of businesses importing textiles from developing countries, as well as the relationship between gender and trade.First SessionThe Committee seeks the views of the textiles industry on the UK’s future trade policy, as well as issues relating to rules of origin (criteria needed to determine the national source of a …

The Government has committed to spending increasing amounts of Official Development Assistance (ODA) outside the Department for International Development (DFID) claiming that this will engage other departments’ skills, expertise and networks.But where DFID is respected worldwide as an accountable deliverer of aid, cross-government funds have been c…

This is an 11-month full-time programme, running from October to August, which combines taught and research components to provide students with state-of-the-art education in biotechnology at the interface of biological and physical sciences and technology.The programme gives students the opportunity to explore current trends and the latest advances…

The funding will be delivered through 4 new projects as part of the Global AMR Innovation Fund (GAMRIF):£20 million to the Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator – a non-profit international partnership supporting research on the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria. This commitment will support scientific research …

Research Associate (Fixed Term)The work is funded under a Global Challenges Research Fund project TIGR2ESS: Transforming India's Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable food Supplies.This post will provide support for the Flagship Project: Defining a Second Green Revolution for India. The research will explore the societal choi…

Over two billion people in developing countries are reliant on smallholder farming and therefore indirectly reliant on pollinators, without necessarily knowing it.  Many valuable cash crops, for example coffee, cocoa and cashews, are highly pollinator dependent and almost exclusively grown in the developing world, providing income for millions of p…

The document published in May 2018 focuses on the UK’s proposals for continued cooperation on science, research and innovation.The full text of the document is available for download.

Circular economy — the concept of reducing and reusing waste — could help the African continent solve environmental challenges, according to the 2nd Next Einstein Forum held in Rwanda last month (26-28 March).Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta, director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa, criticised policies and regulatory frameworks in the regi…

Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection that has grown rapidly in recent decades, with half the world’s population at risk. Cases of infection number in their millions every year, with half a million hospitalised with severe dengue, of whom about 13,000 lose their lives to the disease.In Asia, vector control costs over US$300 million annually, w…

A clinical trial conducted in Pakistan’s Punjab province found that vitamin D3 supplements added to regular treatment for malnutrition led to significant improvements in a group of 185 malnourished children aged 2‒58 months. The eight-week treatment led to gains in weight for height, as well as improvements in motor skills and learning abilities.A …

These are the conclusions of a study, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, which estimated the extent to which body mass index (BMI) is associated with cancer incidence in Brazil. The main conclusions are:Overweight and obesity is associated with higher risk for 14 tumour types in BrazilCases of related cancers are expected to double to ab…

The academy sees the plant as the first of its kind in North Africa, and as the fruit of a genuine collaboration between the academic community and the industrial sector. It implemented the project in collaboration with national partners — universities, research centres and the private sector — as well as other parties from Italy, France, Germany a…

"Huge progress has been made over the last 30 years towards the universal provision of safe water supply and sanitation services and hygiene behaviour change in the face of inexorable growth in low income urban populations. However, the world fell short of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets by some distance: in this regard we failed low…

BackgroundPast and present efforts to strengthen health systems have tended to neglect measures to ensure access to appropriate antibiotic treatment of infections. And yet, if UHC is to be achieved by 2030 – the target for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – it is important that we understand the close links between UHC and AMR.In many …

Programme ScopeThe twelve teams with 56 principal investigators will undertake research in transformations to sustainability areas ranging from groundwater, mining, urban areas and land-registration, to the role of migration and intellectual property rights in sustainability transitions. The projects involve researchers from a wide variety of disci…