Peter Jay Hotez, an American pediatrician and leading international vaccine advocate, spoke out against the harsh global inequalities in the vaccine rollout of COVID-19 at the institute’s weekly virtual meeting on the 26 March 2020. Hotez, an expert in the field of global health vaccinology and neglected tropical disease control, spoke in interview with Eric Fèvre, a joint appointee at
A research study led by the International Livestock Research Institute explored the impact of a growing and changing urban environment on the wildlife and livestock that live with people in Nairobi from 2013 to 2018. This is important because shrinking of urban green spaces increases the risk of spread of zoonoses (diseases that can be spread from animals to people). Photo
The underlying technology used to track the evolution of plant viruses can help track human viruses as well.
The United Kingdom’s reliance on fruits and vegetables from climate-vulnerable tropical countries shows how local or regional impacts from climate change have global consequences.
Written by Nina de Ayala Parker Photo credit: Marco Verch Snaking through six countries in Southeast Asia, the Mekong Delta is one of the longest rivers in the world. The link between climate and conflicts in the Southeast Asian deltas is channelled through water and food insecurity, where climate change is acting as a threat multiplier. This is particularly true in the Mekong Delta, where adverse climate events such as droughts intensify concerns over water
Between 1995-2015, nearly 60% of all maize varieties released in 18 African countries were CGIAR-related. At the end of this period, in 2015, almost half of the maize area in these countries grew CGIAR-related maize varieties. All that was accomplished through modest, maximum yearly investment of about $30 million, which showed high returns: in 2015, the aggregate yearly economic benefits
Upscaling Climate Smart and Nutrition Sensitive Beans and Finger Millet in Uganda
Working with private seed companies, ICRISAT is helping integrate more women and youth into seed production enterprises in Tanzania. Recently we supported the efforts of the seed company Mbozi Highlands (MHEG), to enhance the production, promotion, marketing and adoption of new high-yielding varieties of groundnut and sorghum in the country. This was by designing and developing training manuals to train