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Earlier this month, the ESPA Deltas project was invited to a UNESCO workshop on the applications of sustainability science to their Asian Pacific activities.
A number of presentations were given by UNESCO themselves with high...
ESPA-funded scientists speak out as WHO promotes World Immunisation Week
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but when infectious disease is the problem, prevention shouldn’t stop with immunisation. A vaccine can...
This post originally appeared on nature.com’s Soapbox Science guest blog
According to the law of aerodynamics it's impossible for a bumblebee to fly; but the bumblebee doesn’t know that, so it flies anyway …
[An old myth, which...
The question of how to feed a future world of 9 billion people is often pondered. Supplying the energy needs of such a massive population will be challenging enough. An even greater task will be meeting all of its micronutrient (...
Enriching crops by adding a naturally-occurring soil mineral to fertilizers in Malawi could potentially help to reduce disease and premature death, according to a new ESPA funded study.
The paper in the journal Scientific Reports...
The battle against the tsetse fly in the Zambezi valley is a long and continuing one.
The fly is the source of both animal and human trypanosomiasis – nagana in cattle, sleeping sickness in humans – and is one of the reasons why...
The control of pests by their natural enemies represents an important ecosystem service (ES) that has the potential to mitigate pest control costs and crop yield loss. The value of ES to agriculture is enormous and often under-...
An ESPA project testing the assumption that biodiversity and ecosystem services can help in efforts to tackle poverty, has produced its first discussion paper: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation: What...
‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’ is good advice, particularly when it comes to the blurb; just how many books have you read that are really ‘life changing’?
My recent reading has included two that deserve the eulogies, and both...
Here are the latest updates from the ESPA project Swahili Seas on the 30th January 2013.
Lead researcher Professor Mark Huxham and his team:
- have produced a risk map for mangrove forests in Kenya. This will be used by policy...
