Warren Foster
Guest Author
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/ 5 November 2007

Alone and overlooked

While the United Nations Millennium Development Goals aim to empower women and eradicate poverty, Southern African inheritance practices are having the opposite effect — leaving widows impoverished, maligned and separated from their own children, says a recent study out of Mozambique.

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/ 26 October 2007

Striking a balance

In Africa it is sometimes difficult to balance conservation and development adequately. But a conservation programme — described as innovative and science-based with a landscape-level approach to conservation — is showing how these two goals can be reached without one compromising the other. The African Wildlife Foundation’s Heartland Programme includes both conservation and development goals.

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/ 25 October 2007

Scenarios for all seasons

Taking inspiration from the seasons, Metropolitan Holdings has developed an innovative strategy to battle HIV/Aids at grassroots level. Using the Doyle model — an actuarial tool developed by MD Peter Doyle to project the demographic effect of HIV/Aids in Southern Africa — Metropolitan has created "seasonal" scenarios that predict South Africa’s HIV/Aids future.

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/ 25 October 2007

How to get ahead in business

Three groundbreaking studies by organisations such as the United Nations Global Compact and Goldman Sachs presented this year at the Global Compact Leaders Summit show that an increasing number of business leaders see corporate responsibility as a way to compete successfully and to build trust with stakeholders — and that sustainability front-runners in a range of industries can generate higher stock prices.

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/ 11 September 2007

Act now, eat later

A new report on South Africa’s energy future warns that if the nation does not rethink its development strategy it could herald ruin for local farmers and the poor. It calls for a long, hard look at the accelerated and shared growth initiative for South Africa. The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas’s South African chapter released its report on the country’s energy future last month.