This article was originally drafted by Stef Terblanche and the South Africa Node of the Millennium Project, excerpting from http://www.leadershiponline.co.za/articles/labour-brokers as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. As the debate on the role of labour brokers [in South Africa] rages on, a new study by a […]

Globalization has great benefits and great side effects. When the global economy is doing well, a lot of people try moving to the developed world for a better life while an ailing economy also forces people to find jobs elsewhere. Economic knockdown is perpetuating bad labor practices both in the […]

African countries like Uganda are paying more attention to migrant workers’ remittances because this money has become another avenue for spurring domestic development. The reason for this attention is simple: “remittance flows directly impact on consumption, savings and investment“. As of 2007 Uganda was among the top 10 African remittance […]

This is the the third and final  post in the three-part series of articles looking at the Future Day held recently in Nairobi and organized by Future Challenges, SID East Africa and the Rockefeller Foundation. Check out the first post here  and the second here. On this article I look at the thorny […]

What do bugs have to do with your food? Many of us do not think of that beyond the moment when we select and wash our fresh produce. What if I told you that the use of pesticides is linked to the increased need for ecological pollination services and fertilizer […]