As the largest user of global water, irrigated agriculture accounts for 20% of global cropland and 40% of food production. Irrigation is…
Past pandemic experience can affect health outcomes in future pandemics. This paper focuses on the last major influenza pandemic in 1968 (…
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Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises…
2021, Book: "The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology.…
Policy responses to the COVID-19 outbreak must strike a balance between maintaining essential supply chains and limiting the spread of the…
November 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former…
October 2, 2020, Opinion: "From early on in the Covid-19 pandemic, a common refrain has been, “At least maybe now we will get serious about…
This paper utilizes a peculiar ecological phenomenon, the mass emergence of cicadas
in 13 and 17-year cycles, to identify the impact of…
May 28, 2020, Video, "New research links COVID-19 mortality to air pollution - specifically, small increases in levels of fine particulate…