This critical text is a timely ethnography of how global powers, local resistance, and capital flows are shaping contemporary African foodways. Ghana was one of the first countries targeted by a group...

Data mismatches and unreliable phone access prevented some of Ibaji’s poorest residents from accessing aid before floods destroyed farms in 2024.

Liberia is part of a growing list of partners under US President Donald Trump to accept third-country deportations.

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

On July 25, 2024, farmers, scientists, and officials gathered in Nyankpala, Ghana, to debut Songotra T, a genetically modified cowpea. For over a...

The concept of care has become central to work on multispecies relations. In scholarship with vegetal beings, care sometimes involves a situated ...

Le pays est très dépendant des importations pour de nombreux produits de base. Depuis son retour à la présidence, en janvier 2025, John Dramani Mahama a lancé plusieurs programmes de soutien à l’éleva...

Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna wants to build an entire ecosystem to bring these treatments mains...

Burkina Faso suspended a Gates Foundation-funded research program aimed at stopping the spread of malaria, one of the biggest killers in Africa, after the initiative drew criticism from anti-Western a...

The Institute for Policy Studies’ report “The Giving Pledge at 15” finds that the initiative remains mostly unfulfilled.

All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

The USDA has just announced a plan for reorganization that will move most of the agency out of Washington, DC, as flagrant an act of self-destruction as can be imagined.

The New York Times Magazine has published an astonishing investigative report about the FDA, totally worth reading: Inside the Collapse of the F.D.A.  How the new health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is dismantling the agency. She begins with RFK Jr's opening salvo on Twitter (X): FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” Kennedy wrote. “This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma.

Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”

With the dismantling of USAID and a shift away from traditional official development assistance, activists see a chance to reshape the future of African agriculture.

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

The grant programs have supported the international research of students and scholars for more than 60 years.

The economic consequences of restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

National Science Foundation staff were told to freeze outgoing funding days after NSF leadership introduced a new policy that requires that grants be screened for “alignment with agency priorities”

Western donors are cutting budgets, but the aid model they built—rooted in control, dependency, and depoliticization—still shapes Africa’s development.

Workers at contractor in Accra say they have suffered from depression and anxiety as a result of their work

Millennium Challenge Corporation staff members were offered early retirement or deferred resignation in the latest effort by the Trump administration to gut the foreign aid apparatus.

Many mainstream development actors and scholars concerned about rural poverty and hunger in Africa recommend integrating smallholder farmers, especially women, into formally structured agricultural v...

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A letter sent last week asks colleges to compile a list of all research and grants.

The Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wreaking havoc on the system.

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University Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkApril 2, 2025Dear Tufts community,Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztür...

President Donald Trump is invoking emergency powers to boost the ability of the US to produce critical minerals — and potentially coal — as part of a broad effort to ramp up the development of domesti...

The USDA is bulldozing efforts that help small farmers and food producers sell food directly to schools, food banks, and local communities.

Consumer groups and economists accuse agricultural companies of keeping prices artificially high

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

KoBold Metals Co., backed by billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, has told the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo it wants to develop one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium deposi...

Order calls for teardown of department as Trump seemingly tries to circumvent need to obtain congressional approval

The proposal provides new details on how the administration plans to overhaul USAID — and what programs it expects to eliminate.

There are insuperable market, phytosanitary and political obstacles — and it could get worse.

States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.