Webpages tagged with «Africa»
![Kenya, city, urban](https://www.sum.uio.no/english/sdg/blog/team/1000x562-africa-india.png?alt=listing)
Over the 75 years that has passed since India’s independence in 1947, the Indian pharmaceutical industry has gradually developed research and manufacturing hubs that offer a steady supply of affordable drugs to large parts of the world.
Read the latest op-ed on India-Africa cooperation by Prof. Ranga Reddy Burri, Prof. Dan Banik and PhD candidate Lise Bjerke.
![Russia-Africa summit](https://www.sum.uio.no/english/sdg/blog/photos/sochi-summit-rus-sa_660x400.jpg?alt=listing)
The first Russia-Africa Summit held recently in Sochi has generated renewed interest in better understanding the links between aid, investments and sustainable development as major world powers compete for influence in Africa.
![Crowd of people](https://www.sum.uio.no/english/sdg/blog/photos/population-660x400_benny-jackson.jpg?alt=listing)
I was teaching in Malawi a few weeks ago when I accepted an invitation to participate in a debate on the environmental footprint of population growth hosted by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Although I had not explicitly worked on population policy, I was intrigued by the prospect of better understanding why population is often a neglected area in the mainstream climate change discourse. And the thought of engaging with an Earth Systems scientist and a philosopher was much too good to pass. I was also intrigued by the fact that population control is not explicitly mentioned in the SDGs.