Agroforestry carbon farming projects have multiple benefits on a local and global scale. By looking at one project in Uganda, participating in the Acorn programme, this blog explored how additional income links to gender equality and women´s empowerment.
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Why and how do some female child carers in Lesotho manage to stay in school despite being responsible for running a household? This was the question that researcher Brenda Yamba, originally from Zambia, wanted to answer. She defended her PhD at Maastricht University last June.
In this article, Stefanie Roost explains why Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson deserve the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics and shares her enthusiasm for the laureates' works.
Stress over high energy and grocery costs has a direct effect on the health of people who already have little to spend, warns Professor Gera Nagelhout. According to her, the government can do more to remedy that problem. This is important, because children from underprivileged families in our...
Video available. Workshop 1 - 20 November 2020: Crisis in Border Regions: What did we learn from the first wave?
We all come across discrimination. Whether it's directed at us or anyone else, unfortunately it's almost everywhere. Fortunately, you can do something about it yourself! In this workshop, you will learn to recognize these situations and how to respond to them. The result is that victims feel seen...
This is the second event in the Fireplace Talks on the 30th Anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty, organised by UM Campus Brussels. It will zoom in on one of the policy fields laid out by the Maastricht Treaty and in particular Transparency and Accountability. The discussion will focus on the...
While the discourse around ChatGPT has probably started reaching saturation point, it’s worth pointing out how few of these discussions are actually about the chatbot itself. From being too quick to accuse students of cheating, to underestimating what humans can do, to the perils of following the...
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