How Africa urbanises will be critical to the continent’s future growth and development, says the African Economic Outlook 2016 released today at the African Development Bank Group’s 51st Annual Meetings.

The OECD LEED Trento Centre is working with Italy and the Autonomous Province of Trento to strengthen capacities to develop and implement integrated strategies targeted at improving the quality of life and well-being of people and reversing demographic trends in ‘inner areas’ (sparsely populated areas and stranded communities isolated from large and medium-sized urban centres).

This newsletter provides up-to-date information on activities related to biotechnology at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It is mainly intended for delegates to OECD meetings who are already familiar with certain aspects of OECD‟s work. We hope that it is also informative for the wider biotech community.

The aquatic life benchmarks (for freshwater species) are based on toxicity values reviewed by EPA and used in the Agency's most recent risk assessments developed as part of the decision-making process for pesticide registration. Each Aquatic Life Benchmark is based on the most sensitive, scientifically acceptable toxicity endpoint available for a given taxon of all scientifically acceptable toxicity data available to EPA.

This document presents the outcomes of the 3rd OECD Biopesticide Seminar, held in 2011, that focused on the topic of “botanicals” (also known as plant extracts). The Seminar reviewed a number of scientific and regulatory issues related to the “characterisation and analyses of botanicals for the use in plant protection products”.

This document supplies basic information useful in the risk and safety assessment of food and feed using new varieties of oyster mushroom: compositional considerations, key constituents (nutrients, anti-nutrients and toxicants). It is issued in the Novel Food and Feed Safety Series.

This Bio-pesticides seminar report presents an overview of similarities and differences between species and strains within the Trichoderma genus. This fungus illustrates many general issues related to the use of micro-organisms for pest management.

This document includes the conclusions and recommendations resulting from a workshop that addressed the ecotoxicology and environmental fate of manufactured nanomaterials, and in particular the applicability of existing OECD Test Guidelines (TG) related to these topics. A number of TG developments are underway at OECD as a follow-up to these recommendations.

OECD major events and activities relating to biotechnologies: latest developments are updated biannually in this Newsletter

This OECD monograph demonstrates how a chemical hazard assessment that considers and ranks all available relevant information - a so-called weight of evidence approach - can be constructed to conclude on a particular hazard endpoint for a chemical, in this case, skin sensitisation for 4-isopropylaniline.

The report presents the potential of new nanomaterials and highlights the remaining challenges for their safe and sustainable introduction in the tyre industry.

The OECD has published a report on a pilot chemical classification exercise undertaken in 2013 and ‘14. Using a number of chemical assessments agreed in the OECD hazard assessment programme, reasons why classification proposals may differ were investigated. The report concludes on the main reasons for such differences, and recommends some measures to overcome some of them.

An OECD policy perspective is now available which describes some of the major highlights from an OECD report on Nanotechnology and Tyres: Greening Industry and Transport.

Participants from 15 countries attended the Workshop on Developmental Neurotoxicity: The use of non-animal test methods for regulatory purposes” on 18 October 2016, in Belgium. The event, co-organised by the OECD and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), focused on opportunities and challenges related to alternative methods for testing and assessing the DNT potential of chemicals.

The Decision-Recommendation on the Co-operative Investigation and Risk Reduction of Chemicals revises and replaces a 1991 Decision-Recommendation of the Council. The Decision-Recommendation is composed of two parts: Part A focuses on the development of harmonised hazard and exposure assessment methodologies for chemicals and Part B focuses on risk prevention and reduction.

A major fruit crop of temperate regions, APPLE is consumed worldwide as fresh fruit, juice and other food products. This consensus document provides science-based key insights for the regulatory assessment of the environmental safety of genetically-engineered products: taxonomy, reproductive biology, genetics, hybridisation and introgression, and ecology.

Feelings of shame, unlike other emotions, are difficult to hide

The defenestration of Cantor sends a message to the cosy world of party bigwigs and donors

People seem to resign themselves to innovations they considered dubious at the outset

With new owners, falling viewers and spiralling costs, Formula One is at a crossroads

Former head of UK Sport has set sights on winning the World Cup

For her 99th birthday my granny wanted to fly from Ottawa to Italy and get out her bikini

Your company secrets don’t need to be revealed to the tanning masses. Your shareholders will thank you

The Swiss bunker mentality has always felt at once quaint, menacing and oddly reassuring

From Hawaii to Hampstead, the columnist answers readers’ questions

US 3 Year Note Bond Yield was 0.21 percent on Friday May 8, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. Historically, the United States 3 Year Note Yield reached an all time high of 9.11 in May of 1990.

US 2 Year Note Bond Yield was 0.15 percent on Friday May 8, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. Historically, the United States 2 Year Note Yield reached an all time high of 16.95 in September of 1981.

Australia 5 Year Bond Yield was 0.42 percent on Saturday May 9, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. Historically, the Australia 5 Year Note Yield reached an all time high of 6.93 in June of 2008.

Australia 2 Year Bond Yield was 0.25 percent on Saturday May 9, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. Historically, the Australia 2 Year Note Yield reached an all time high of 7.25 in June of 2008.

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We give you the lowdown on those investment trusts where family money still influences the way that they are managed.

Few relationships would be immune to the pressures wrought by their ordeal: the strain of caring for their desperately sick child, their brief life as fugitives, the draining legal battles.

I worry about my brother Tom. He has Fragile X, the most common cause of inherited learning disability. He can't write, read or understand money. He refers to Covid-19 as 'this bloody flu virus'.

Dylan Nacass, 23, managed to escape with minor lacerations after a shark latched onto his leg while surfing at Bell's Beach in Torquay, Victoria on Friday afternoon.

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: How much are you really drinking in these lockdown days? Studies claim that one person in three is drinking less often that causal, but I can't say I've come across them.

Ministers believe 'The Blob' - an army made up of political opponents and union barons - is colluding to politicise the coronavirus outbreak, The Mail on Sunday has learned.

Jeremy Corbyn's backers claim the new Labour Party leader wants to review his predecessor's £7.2 billion pledge, despite promising to honour it during the recent leadership contest.

Piers Corbyn, 73, called the fine an 'abomination' and an 'attack on human rights' after he refused on numerous occasions to heed the police's polite requests in Central London today.

Matt Hancock is living on 'borrowed time' as Health Secretary following clashes with the three most powerful members of the Government over the Covid crisis, The Mail on Sunday has been told.

In Berlin, hundreds of protesters swarmed Alexanderplatz yesterday, clashing with riot police officers and shouting 'We are the people!' and 'Freedom!'.