Africa is given a raw deal again

This week’s United Nations summit has been called to assess progress towards the millennium development goals (MDGs), a list of targets for the developing world that spreads outwards in complexity from a core group of aims.

Companies with solutions

A basic requirement of development is having enough to eat. As food prices rise, progress in many countries is being threatened.

Hard-nosed benefits for a different kind of investor

From the branches of a tree in a nursery in Ghana’s Ashanti region hangs a collection of black polythene bags, each containing the seeds of the allenblackia tree.

A healthier future

Unilever’s alternative to palm oil