Drought-tolerant corn is off-limits to Tanzanian farmers as outside groups debate the best approach for easing hunger across Africa.
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A family’s journey from Armenia to Syria and back again.
Women in sub-Saharan Africa provide more than half the farm labor yet are five times less likely than men to own land.
Many African women still struggle for rights — for the right to go to school, to marry when and whom they choose, to own farmland and livestock.
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Crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa rank among the lowest in the world, and nearly a third of the region’s people are chronically malnourished.
Counselors at World Hope International, as former victims themselves, draw upon their own experiences in helping young victims of sex crimes in Cambodia.
Ahmed Abuhamda, a respected journalist and fixer in Gaza, has spent years working for Western news organizations like the Wall Street Journal and NPR. Now he's decided its time to get out.
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The tensions between India's patriarchal traditions and modernism can be seen in the struggle against dowry violence.
Roiling tensions underlie efforts to improve food security in Africa, often pulling at cross purposes on farmers, consumers and their countries.
While Nepal’s hydropower potential is great, economic, health and environmental impacts from dams are emerging. Steve Matzker and Jennifer Gonzalez explore water rights issues in the region.
Gateways
Gateways contain multiple Pulitzer Center reporting projects that focus on a single issue
The world's oceans are vital to the planet's health—and ours. How is this resource managed now and what are its prospects for the future?
Pulitzer Center journalists examine emerging nuclear threats, from an alarming new arms race between India and Pakistan to the competition between the U.S. and Russia on nuclear exports.
A collaborative investigation into the water sector in Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Liberia in partnership with local journalists and their outlets.
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Writer Erik Vance discusses his project "Emptying the World's Aquarium," from the coast of the Sea of Cortez.
Journalist Jenna Krajeski discusses her project "Opportunity and Oppression in a Divided Kurdistan."
Meet the reporter and photographer behind The Seattle Times' ocean acidification project.
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Crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa rank among the lowest in the world, and nearly a third of the region’s people are chronically malnourished.
Award-winning global health reporter had some wise words for DC students when she visited their classrooms last week.
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The University of San Diego and its Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies are dedicated to building and sustaining peace and justice.
The collaboration combines Johns Hopkins’ deep bench of top public health experts with the Pulitzer Center’s extensive experience supporting global health reporting for leading news outlets.
Boston University is one of the Consortium partners that has experimented with diverse ways of linking Pulitzer Center journalists with BU students, faculty and the broader community.
William & Mary, the second oldest college in the nation, embarked on a Campus Consortium partnership with the Pulitzer Center that serves as an example for others.
The Pulitzer Center promotes in-depth engagement with global affairs through its sponsorship of quality international journalism across all media platforms and an innovative program of outreach and education.
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October 21, 2013
From diamonds and water in Africa to gold and indigenous peoples' rights in South America, local costs of global goods front and center for University of Chicago visit.
October 23, 2013
Photojournalist focuses her lens on global unemployment crisis and impact on Japan's middle-class.
October 23, 2013
Join Sam Loewenberg and Roger Thurow at the BMW Foundation in Berlin on October 23.