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OECD Paving Way for Costa Rica’s Membership

By Jaya Ramachandran
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), once a domain of the rich countries, is keen to extend its global membership and has set out a clear path for Costa Rica’s membership, within months of launching accession discussions with Colombia and Latvia.

High-Tech to the Rescue of Southern Africa’s Smallholder Farmers

By Kwame Buist
Agriculture is the major employer and a backbone of the economies of Southern Africa.

Africa’s Rural Women Must Count in Water Management

By Miriam Gathigah
More women’s voices are being heard at international platforms to address the post-2015 water agenda, as witnessed at the recently concluded international U.N International Water Conference held from Jan. 15 to 17 in Zaragoza, Spain.

Diversity and Inclusion for Empowering ‘People of Color’

By Francesca Dziadek
A unique initiative – the Network Inclusion Leaders (NILE) project – has just held its second workshop here to set up a diversity and inclusion network for future leaders from among Germany’s ‘people of color’, or persons from different ‘non-white’ cultural backgrounds.


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