Increasing Debate

Debate Debate

Geocomputation is an emerging field of research that advocates the use of computationally intensive techniques such as neural networks, heuristic search, and cellular automata for spatial data analysis. Since increasing amounts of health-related data are collected within a geographical frame of reference, geocomputational methods show increasing potential for health data analysis. This paper pr...

Policy frameworks for increasing soil fertility in Africa: debating the alternatives A Future Agricultures Consortium debate

Everyone is agreed that one of the central components of achieving an „African Green Revolution‟ is to tackle the widespread soil fertility constraints in African agriculture. To this end, AGRA – the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa – has launched a major new „Soil Health‟ programme aimed at 4.1 million farmers across Africa, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committing $198 m...

Policy frameworks for increasing soil fertility in Africa: A very partial overview of the debate

The argument against continent-wide (or even national) blueprint programmes has of course been long made. That is not new. But there were some interesting nuances to this, and some helpful specificity. Which contexts matter and what implications does this have for what should be done on the ground? This relates to the question posed, and examined by many contributors, about the merits of using ...

Inaugural Debate Section - Debate Editor's Note

Education & Debate

Sickle celi disease is listed in the manufacturers' data sheets in the United Kingdom as a contraindication to the use of most combined contraceptive pills; the result is confused advice on family planning to a group ofwomenwho are at substantial risk from both planned and unplanned pregnancy. A study in north London on the use of contraceptives by women with sickle cell disease indicates that ...