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Malaria kills between one and two million people a year. International initiatives such as Roll Back Malaria are committed to halving the burden of malaria through the use of anti-malaria drugs and attacking the mosquitoes that spread the disease....
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Pastoralists, often referred to as 'nomads', move with the livestock on which they depend, grazing on communally managed pastures. Some development agencies estimate that there are up to 200 million pastoralists in todays world. Pastoralists are...
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Fifty years of curiosity driven research on pheromone-based communication was celebrated in a recent invited review paper co-authored by Prof Alan Cork, NRI, and colleagues Prof Peter Witzgall (SLU, Sweden) and Philip Kirsch (APTIV, USA) (Sex...
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The Jim Mount Centre is a collaborative venture between NRI and East Malling Research (EMR). It combines EMR's facilities and expertise on UK horticulture with NRI's expertise on tropical crops. Neil Hipps the Business Development Manager at EMR...
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Global embassy representatives and international agricultural experts gathered in London today (1st April 2010) to mark the launch of a new independent journal on 'World Agriculture', www.world-agriculture.net, a peer-reviewed, completely...
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"In view of the current food and financial crises, high priority should now be placed on reducing postharvest losses." This was the view expressed by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Food Security and Nutrition, David...
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On behalf of the United Nations Word Food Programme (WFP), Dr Keith Tomlins, a Food Technologist at NRI has recently studied the feasibility of the local manufacture of fortified blended-foods in Liberia. Liberia is a post-conflict economy and...
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NRI's Professor of Development Anthropology, John Morton, recently participated in the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an event attended by over 5000 scientists and science educators from around the world.
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International Women's Day is a day to celebrate the success of women and to raise awareness of the struggles of women around the world. The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich is proud to support this important day and...
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The University of Greenwich has announced that it has appointed Professor Andrew Westby to be Director of the Natural Resources Institute (NRI). He will take up his new post on 1 May 2010 and will replace Dr Guy Poulter who will be stepping down...
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