For hundreds of millions of poor rural households, livestock remain a key asset, often meeting multiple needs, and enabling livelihoods to be built in some of the world’s harshest environments. Roberto Salomón The livestock sector is undergoing dramatic changes as large-scale production expands in response to surging demand […]
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Kifkif: training migrants to tell their own stories
A project in Antwerp trains non-EC migrants in journalism skills to create themselves a voice in mainstream media. Cultural integration is a politically-charged issue in Flanders. (The Prisma memories) _ Graham Douglas Kifkif was founded in Brussels in 2001 as a grass roots organization to fight racism. Its name […]
A labour of scholarly love
If Herodotus is the ‘father of history’ then surely Strabo (c. 60 BC–c. AD 25), describing the physical past and present of his known world, deserves the same status for geography. Sean Sheehan Born more than half a millennium after Herodotus, Strabo documents three continents at a time […]
A large part of the community remains in the shadows
On May 7, 2022, Ecuadorians voted ‘yes’ in a referendum to reform various aspects of the country’s Constitution. The referendum sparked intense national debate and was regarded by government and public alike as a measure of support for President Rafael Correa’s leadership. (The Prisma memories) Juan Galbete Nearly […]
Giving back what is owed
The translator of the first edition in English of Anna Gréki’s “Algérie, capitale, Alger” quotes some lines from a poem where Gréki speaks of wanting to “reveal a certain movement / a certain rhythm, certain relations / of people to a situation”. Sean Sheehan Born in Algeria, her […]
















