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NEWS ON SCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTH
Can geoengineering help combat climate change?
18 March. TWAS, The Royal Society, London, and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) are launching a major study on the governance of geoengineering.
Science academies face age and gender issues
24 February. "Just 24% of the members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences are women," says Rosaura Ruiz, the academy's president.
TWAS and the International Year of Biodiversity
TWAS is aiming to assist the training of a new generation of taxonomists in the developing world.
TWAS Fellowships: Call for applications now open
11 March. Postgraduate, postdoctoral, visiting scholar and advanced research fellowships available to scientists from developing countries. Deadlines vary.
Nanotechnology could help Arab region
20 February. “Nanotechnology could aid the future of development of the Arab region,” says Mohamed H.A. Hassan, executive director of TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, and president of the African Academy of Sciences.
Migration and science
21 January. "Migration and Science", an article in the most recent issue of the TWAS newsletter, takes a close look at the brain drain phenomenon.
TWOWS awarded Elsevier Foundation grant
18 January. The Third World Organization for Women in Science has received a grant from the Elsevier Foundation that enables it to expand its recently launched prize scheme for young women scientists from the developing world.
TWAS-DFG collaboration
15 January. TWAS and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) announce a new collaborative programme for scientists in sub-Saharan Africa. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2010.
Increasing the role of science in natural disaster management
14 January. Guo Huadong, director general of the Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, discussed the valuable role that science and technology can play in disaster forecasting and management. Guo, who based his remarks on a recent IAP report, 'Natural Disaster Mitigation – A Scientific and Practical Approach', spoke at the IAP General Assembly in London.
Giving nature's capital its due
12 January. Economics professor Partha Dasgupta, speaking at the opening session of the IAP International Conference on Biodiversity in London, says we need new economic indicators that take into account the value of ecological systems.
African computer scientists recognized
7 December. Microsoft Research, TWAS and AAS reward three African computer scientists showing potential to accelerate economic development in Africa.
Teach the teachers well
4 December. IMPA's long-standing programme to improve the teaching of highschool mathematics in Brazil has turned to the internet to help advance its goals.
Access China
3 December. TWAS editor Daniel Schaffer is in Paris at 'Berlin7', an international open access conference held at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonnes, where he spoke to Zhang Xiaolin, executive director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' National Science Library.
Footprints in the 21st century
23 November. Assessments on ecological footprints are blurring the distinctions between developed and developing countries, says Mathis Wackernagel, president of the Global Footprint Network.
Lagging indicators in Arab region
16 November. Despite small strides in advancing research and development, the Arab region still lags far behind other regions in investments in science, technology and innovation.
A new age for science communications
10 November. The world of science communications is changing at an unprecedented pace, says Nature’s editor-in-chief Philip Campbell, "making it hard to predict what the future will hold."
Changing world of science in the South
5 November. Big changes are taking place in science in the developing world. But not all countries are sharing in the growth of scientific knowledge, says Mohamed H.A. Hassan, executive director of TWAS. He spoke at a ministerial roundtable at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences held prior to the World Science Forum.
COSTIS launched
4 November. TWAS joins the Group of 77 and UNESCO in announcing the launch of an international organization designed to bring policymakers and scientists closer together to improve the prospects for sustainable economic growth in the developing world.
2010 Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research
Pre-registration is now open for the second "Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research" that will be taking place at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 3 February 2010.
Flamingos, microbes and more in Africa's Great Rift Valley
29 October. It's not the African pink flamingos – strutting gracefully in the shallows of Kenya's Lake Nakuru – that capture the attention of Hamadi Iddi Boga. It's what's beneath their feet.
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Pramod Kumar Aggarwal from India and Carlos Clemente Cerri from Brazil were honoured at the opening ceremony of the TWAS 11th General Conference, in Durban, on 20 October. The two share this year's Trieste Science Prize – a USD100,000 award funded by the Ernesto Illy Foundation – for their pioneering work on the intricate relationship between agriculture, climate and the environment. 
Renewable energies for environmentally sustainable industrial technologies -- that's the area in which this year's Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize is going to be awarded. 