Japan is celebrating 20 years of a social care system that provides cover in the final stages of life. In health crises like the current one, this policy can make fundamental differences in the quality of life and life expectancy of the [...]

More than 30,000 Cuban doctors, including the ‘white coats’ fighting coronavirus, are working overseas, in 67 countries. Most of them, around 20,000, are in Venezuela. Is this covert diplomacy? A money-making scheme? Or an example of the cooperation needed in the face of a global health [...]

In the mid-20th century, the so-called Green Revolution changed humanity’s relationship with agriculture. Three decades later, the model adapted to the financialisation of the economy and agribusiness was born. This went on to take root across the [...]

Neoliberalism decimated public healthcare in African countries. And yet they know how to fight the coronavirus effectively.

“However much we preach about the AfCFTA, if those informal cross-border women cannot get their goods from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Lusaka in Zambia then there is no real cross-border trade.”

One (accidental and positive) effect of the economic crisis has been that it has led to new intergenerational relations. Young and old help and support each other in the framework of intergenerational living programmes.