Fighting Ebola with Garbage Bags

Rather than formal health systems, it was local ingenuity that was crucial in ending the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa. The disease was unprecedented.  It was unknown in the region until December 2013.  And yet the Ebola epidemic was overcome in a matter of...

Organic Food vs. Genetically Modified Food: Who Will Win?

Did you know that countries like Japan, New Zealand, and Germany oppose Genetically Modified Foods, also identified as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)?  In general the European Union, a great buyer of Africa’s organic food, opposes Genetically Modified Foods. ...