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Cambridge and Indian partners launch collaboration to transform India’s "Green Revolution”

22 Feb 2018

Researchers met in New Delhi today to formalise the launch of a programme that aims to jointly address some of India’s most pressing food security...

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United Nations Operation in Burundi (crop)

When ideas of peace meet politics of conflict

15 Feb 2017

Research by an expert in peacebuilding shows how international ideas, practices and language of conflict resolution are transformed when they meet...

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Charlotte Dixon working in Sierra Leone

Graduate, get a job … make a difference #2

13 Jan 2017

Cambridge graduates enter a wide range of careers but making a difference tops their career wish lists. In this series, inspiring graduates from the...

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Could cryptocurrency help the ‘bottom billion’?

17 Oct 2016

Many of the world’s poorest poor don’t have access to a bank account and yet depend on being able to transfer money across borders. Could digital...

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Cementing Ethiopia's progress

Opinion: Why Ethiopia is on track to become Africa’s industrial powerhouse

23 Jun 2016

Jostein Hauge and Muhammad Irfan (Centre of Development Studies) discuss Ethiopia's economics growth over the last decade.

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Let girls learn in conflict settings

09 Dec 2015

Unique threats to girls displaced by conflict prompt exceptional initiative.

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Oklahoma Sunset Oil Well

Benefits by the barrel

09 Apr 2011

Countries rich in oil have long been associated with the "resource-curse paradox" - a principle which states they will suffer, rather than benefit...

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Water clarity improvement after filtration

Safe water solutions

01 Nov 2010

Research across the University is helping to clean up water in regions around the world.

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MRSA

Stopping superbugs in their tracks

01 Nov 2010

Work in resource-restricted healthcare settings in south-east Asia is defining the transmission of hospital ‘superbugs’ using low-tech diagnostics...

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Chars dwellers building plinths as part of the cash-for-work scheme

Out of poverty

01 Nov 2010

Cambridge researchers are contributing to projects in Bangladesh that aim to lift 1 million people out of poverty by 2015.

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Community radio volunteers, Breeze-FM, Chipata, Zambia

Democratising the airwaves

01 Nov 2010

A new research collaboration will investigate the capacity of radio to facilitate citizen-led governance in developing countries.

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kiwanja

Humanitarian focus on ICTs for international development

01 Nov 2010

New networking activities will help academic expertise in information and communications technology to benefit developing countries.

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