Central Africa--long plagued by conflict and widespread poverty--faces another significant challenge to sustainable development: a debilitating brain drain. The emigration of talented scholars and researchers seeking an education in developed countries and then staying abroad is weakening the region's ability to deal with dire challenges such as water and food security, climate change, loss of biodiversity, and public health. The Congo Basin Institute--featured in the video above--has a vision for training African researchers and scientists at home in the region and giving them incentives to stay and work on solving local problems. Read more