Articles by theme: Policies and Politics

“Within the next two years we are going to see food emerge as the single most important issue around which economy, politics and culture will have to be redefined.”

“I sincerely believe that the world would have become a better place if the Doha Round had been concluded,” says Erling Vårdal, economics professor at the University of Bergen (Norway) and expert on international macro- and agricultural economics.

“We are supposed to believe that the US and Britain would have liberated Iraq even if its main export was pickles.”

The ‘Elvis of Academia’ or the ‘Ayatollah of Anti-Americanism’, Noam Chomsky remains one of the worlds most respected and controversial intellectuals. Global Knowledge met the professor at his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Can expansion in the production of biofuels benefit the environment, ensure food security and help the poor? Researchers at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India believe so.

“What really matters is the impact of the social premium. And the fact is that the premium genuinely helps improve the local communities around, socio-economically speaking,” says Wilson Bondo, Kiliflora Joint Body Coordinator.

Without relevant high-quality education, poor countries cannot produce the human capital they need to reduce poverty and inequalities, promote growth and raise living standards.

As the world’s population grows, the gap between access to and needs for water is also widening.

Sami and San: a common history of eviction, discrimination and forced assimilation. Similar-sized populations, spread over the same number of countries – one a people of the far north and one a people of the far south.

EU har utpekt 2009 som det europeiske året for kreativitet og innovasjon. Men hva mener vi egentlig med ord som kreativitet? Hvorfor er kreativitet viktig – og for hvem?

Several companies had been test drilling on the Norwegian continental shelf in the North Sea since 1965, when the news broke in June 1970 that Philips Petroleum had made a huge oil discovery.

It has been said that it is hard for a foreigner to capture the Russian soul. The Russian sense of melancholy is not personal, but more of a public or social mood, a feeling of loss and a strong collective sense of being the people who carries the cross, through revolutions, upheavals and suffering, on behalf of the world.