Options Magazine presents IIASA and its research for a non-specialist audience. The current issue focuses on

Directions for Africa: The paths research reveals

Articles include:

Preparing Madagascar for cyclones
Reducing the impact of natural disasters on the Malagasy economy.

Education: The key to development and health in Africa
Recently completed research scientifically proves, for the first time, the key role of human capital formation in a country’s economic development.

Climate change and agriculture in Africa
Climate change poses serious threats to food production in Sub-Saharan Africa and risks further impoverishing many of the world’s poorest countries.

Making energy poverty history in Africa
The challenge of increasing Africa’s access to affordable and reliable energy services, while taking environmental constraints into account, is colossal.

Transforming Africa’s conflicts into nation-building projects
Protagonists must shift the use of power from mutual destruction to the joint design of political, social, and economic systems.

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