The North-South Dialogue: The Issue Is Survival

Brandt, Willy

doi:10.1080/05775132.1982.11470787

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“…But clearly it is most important to the developing countries, and it can even be argued that their principal weakness is the lack of access to technology, or of command of it' . 23 Nearly a quarter of a century later, Gordon Brown expressed similar sentiments: 'In the nineteenth century you could say that it was inadequate science, technology and knowledge that prevented us saving lives. Now, with the science, technology and knowledge available, we must face the truth that the real barrier is indifference'.…”

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Culturing Development: Bananas, Petri Dishes and ‘Mad Science’

Smith¹

2007

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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This paper analyses a biotechnology-focused project which aims to promote the development and adoption of tissue culture bananas by small-scale farmers in Kenya. The paper highlights the generation of several important narratives that are used to justify the development and dissemination of this technology. First, a disaster narrative, a series of claims regarding rural livelihoods and banana production in Kenya, is generated. This creates a political and technical space for the creation of a new science that can solve these problems. Finally a series of claims regarding the efficacy of the technology in alleviating poverty are made. The project wields these various constructs to create a particular projection of rural Kenya and banana production, deploying data, statistics, economics and 'facts' in order to continually redefine the project as a success. The project can, through a process of defining its own boundaries and limits, justify a technology-led solution to a complex and nuanced set of problems Á the biological subsuming the political. The project thus succeeds as a generator of discourses as much as a generator of technologies.

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Section: Projects and Projectionsmentioning

confidence: 89%

Culturing Development: Bananas, Petri Dishes and ‘Mad Science’

Smith¹

2007

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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“…The covariates were sex ( female , male ), age (in years and 5‐year categories) at index date (and updated at a diagnosis of a cardiometabolic condition), geographic region of nationality ( Spanish , Global North , or Global South ), 21 and socioeconomic status (assessed using the Mortalidad en áreas pequeñas Españolas y Desigualdades Socioeconómicas y Ambientales (MEDEA) deprivation index (calculated at the census tract level and categorized into quintiles by the SIDIAP for anonymization purposes with urban areas as a separate category) 22 . We also extracted information on smoking status ( never , former , or current smoker ) and alcohol intake ( no , low , or high risk ) (the closest record to the index date within 5 years before or at the index date was selected).…”

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Body mass index and incident cardiometabolic conditions in relation to obesity‐related cancer risk: A population‐based cohort study in Catalonia, Spain

Recalde,

Pistillo,

Viallon

et al. 2023

Cancer Medicine

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BackgroundWe investigated the association between body mass index (BMI) and obesity‐related cancer risk among individuals with/without incident hypertension (HTN), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the joint associations of overweight/obesity (BMI ≥25 kg/m2) and each cardiometabolic condition with obesity‐related cancer riskMethodsWe conducted a population‐based cohort (n = 1,774,904 individuals aged ≥40 years and free of cancer and cardiometabolic conditions at baseline) study between 2010 and 2018 with electronic health records from Spain. Our main outcome measures were hazard ratios (HRs) for incident obesity‐related cancers and relative excess risk due to interaction (RERI).ResultsA total of 38,082 individuals developed obesity‐related cancers after a median of 8 years of follow‐up. The positive association between BMI and obesity‐related cancer risk was similar among individuals free of cardiometabolic conditions (hazard ratio, HR per 5 kg/m2: 1.08, 95% confidence interval, CI: 1.06–1.10) and with incident HTN (1.05, 1.01–1.08). The association among those with incident T2DM was null (0.98, 0.93–1.03). There was a positive additive interaction between overweight/obesity and CVD (relative excess risk due to interaction [RERI]: 0.19 [0.09, 0.30]), meaning that the combined association was 0.19 more than the sum of the individual associations. In contrast, a RERI of −0.24 (−0.28, −0.20) was observed for the combined association between overweight/obesity and T2DM.ConclusionsPublic health strategies to reduce overweight can help prevent cancer cases among the general population and individuals with incident HTN/CVD. Further, weight‐loss interventions seem to lead to a greater cancer risk reduction among individuals with CVD.

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“…The authors take a new perspective on the old challenge related to burning coal in developing countries. This issue has been consistently raised since the early 1970s, and many authors have advocated that developed countries should support developing nations by sharing resources (including technology) with them to minimize challenges such as the climate crisis and other impediments to economic development (see Brandt, 1982;Meadows et al, 1972;Schumacher, 1973).…”

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Divest or engage? Effective paths to net zero from the U.S. perspective

Buks¹,

Sobański²

2023

EBR

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The aim of this article is to critically review and evaluate two ESG-based investment strategies—divestment and engagement for alignment of investment portfolios with climate change mitigation goals of the United Nations. The article compares both approaches in terms of their effectiveness of decarbonization, using the case study method. First, the case on fossil fuels divestment by Harvard Management Company is analysed. The second case study discusses shareholder engagement endeavors by Engine No. 1 hedge fund and its investment in ExxonMobil. The findings indicate that divestment may have non-immediate impact on corporate behavior and carries political and legal retribution risks. Engagement, on the other hand, presents itself as a more plausible option as it takes less time to deploy and, therefore, can produce more immediate and impactful results. Nevertheless, both divestment and engagement can play mutually supportive roles in addressing climate change by the investment industry.

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The North-South Dialogue: The Issue Is Survival

Cited by 5 publications

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Culturing Development: Bananas, Petri Dishes and ‘Mad Science’

Culturing Development: Bananas, Petri Dishes and ‘Mad Science’

Body mass index and incident cardiometabolic conditions in relation to obesity‐related cancer risk: A population‐based cohort study in Catalonia, Spain

Divest or engage? Effective paths to net zero from the U.S. perspective

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