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Building a sustainable wildlife trade sector to avoid future pandemics

By Charis Enns Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment, Health and Social Care Posted: July 6, 2021

Since early reports linked the emergence of COVID-19 to the wild meat trade, the pandemic has thrown the wildlife trade into the global spotlight for its role in spreading zoonotic disease pathogens. This has motivated calls to ban wildlife trade, among other proposals to strengthen regulation and control over the trade in wildlife and their […]

Health messaging in the vaccine rollout: the role of the community

By Prasenjit Sarkhel and Upasak Das Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: March 31, 2021

The COVID-19 vaccination campaign has been met with much enthusiasm, with some hailing it as the beginning of the end of the pandemic. But health experts fear such optimism might prompt people to pay less attention to hygienic compliance measures, such as hand washing and wearing masks in public. The emergence of new strains in […]

Tackling irrigation poverty traps in South Asia

By Tim Foster and Roshan Adhikari Filed Under: All posts Posted: March 20, 2020

As we celebrate World Water day, Dr Timothy Foster, Lecturer in Water-Food Security in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, and Dr Roshan Adhikari, Research Associate in the Global Development Institute, take a look at how rainfall variability impacts farmers in South Asia and explore what local and national governments can be doing […]

Building a sustainable wildlife trade sector to avoid future pandemics

Tackling irrigation poverty traps in South Asia

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