Across Africa and many parts of the world, scientifically strong projects fail to secure financing, influence policy, or scale into transformative development programmes. The challenge is often not the science itself. The challenge of why your scientific project not funded is that evidence presented by science is rarely translated into the language of economics, investment, political priorities, and decision-making, lay man’s language to be precise.… Continue Reading
The Rift Valley Has Been Telling a Story: Olkokwee groundwater eruption
For years, the Great Rift Valley of Kenya has been quietly changing.
Its lakes have expanded. Roads have disappeared beneath water. Communities have been displaced. Wetlands have emerged where dry land once existed. In some places, groundwater has started appearing unexpectedly from beneath the earth itself.… Continue Reading