10 Aug 2010
WASHINGTON – Vitamin A deficiency, a
nutritional imbalance that can result in blindness and death – and may affect
130 million children worldwide – could be alleviated through wider use of
genetically modified oil from mustard seeds, according to a new paper by RFF researchers.
They find that in India, which has the largest affected population worldwide,
the novel method is a viable public health option, given the poor reach of
existing measures.
23 May 2010
Those of you who follow climate news have seen this
already. Dave Smith, mathematical modeler here at CDDEP, has
been getting a lot of (good) attention for his recent
paper on malaria and climate change.
