Uganda

By the summer of 2008, the price of rice had increased five times from the average price in 2005. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps

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Responding to the Global Food Crisis

The following post is from One Table, a Mercy Corps campaign to fight world hunger by investing in the world's women.

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Bride price debate in Uganda

In what some call a dispute between cultural tradition and modernity, the issue of bride price payment has come underfire by Ugandan womens' groups and other concerned organizations.

A new mobile technology is helping battle HIV in Biwindi, Uganda where most people walked days through the tough terrain to get medical care. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/youngrobv/2282046318/">youngrobv (Rob & Ale)</a>

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Uganda's New Mobile Technology

Could you imagine having to walk a full day to get medical care, and then wait weeks to learn your test results?

Condoms prevent transmissions of disease, and could be key to population control. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gchicco/2604456566/">Rampant Gian (flickr)</a>

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Condoms and Climate Change

CIA director Michael Hayden recently identified one of the biggest threats facing the U.S., something that occurs over 215 million times a day — sex.

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenhem/2234201934/"> greenhem (flickr)</a>

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Growing Trend: Bans on Bad Bags

Plastic bags have long been associated with litter and waste. The world uses tens of billions of plastic bags every year – bags that end up hanging from trees, traveling along freeways, escaping garbage cans and waste dumps.

Photo: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/hob/199546789/">Rob McDougall (flickr)</a>

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Africa's Energy Shortfall

Access to cheap energy underpins modern societies. Finding enough to fuel industrialized economies and pull developing countries out of poverty without overheating the climate is a central challenge of the 21st century.

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