News - 2024
![Picking tea in Kenya. Global commodity trade has led to large-scale land use changes in the Global South with significant biodiversity loss](/images/images/nri-news/2024/Picking_tea_Kenya.jpeg)
Growing demand for food, fuel and fibre has expanded global commodity trade and large-scale land acquisitions in the Global South. This has resulted in significant land use changes, creating biodiversity losses and social impacts, leading to a...
![Cooperative member demonstrating how to use an alcohol gun to test milk quality.](/images/images/nri-news/2024/Woman_demonstrating_equipment_to_test_milk_quality.jpg)
To achieve gender transformative change, we need to carefully examine the underlying causes of gender inequality. This means challenging existing socio-economic structures and cultural institutions that often reinforce gender inequality. Urgent and...
![Malaria is spread through bites by infected mosquitoes. Over 249 million malaria cases were reported worldwide in 2022](/images/images/nri-news/2024/Mosquito.jpeg)
Malaria remains an enduring threat to millions of people with a death toll of 608,000 across 85 countries in 2022 alone. Today, NRI joins the global community to commemorate World Malaria Day, an occasion to highlight achievements and the need for...
![A farmer harvesting water lily in a flooded field. This is the source of her daily livelihood to support her family.](/images/images/nri-news/2024/Water_lily.jpeg)
Several tools have been proposed to facilitate the adaptation processes necessary for achieving climate resilience in response to new climate and environmental challenges [1]Some of these are embedded in financial inclusion products like...
![Portrait of Jacinta Nyaika](/images/images/nri-news/2024/Jacinta.jpg)
Jacinta Nyaika is a third year PhD student in the Food and Markets Department at NRI. She took five minutes out her day to talk to us about her research on an important food security crop, life at NRI and her future plans.
![A section of participants at the conference](/images/images/nri-news/2024/Fansi-conference-2024.jpg)
NRI successfully hosted the International Conference on Food and Nutrition Security in Africa from 20-21 February 2024 at the University of Greenwich campus in London. Organised as part of NRI’s Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (FaNSI), the...
![Tropical forests are rapidly vanishing as they are increasingly converted to farmland](/images/images/nri-news/2024/Deforestation_.jpg)
Tropical forests are vanishing as they are converted to agricultural land to meet the demands of distant markets. The global trade of tropical commodities has raised concerns about deforestation, prompting high-income countries to explore...
![A group of animals at a waterhole in Etosha National park, Namibia](/images/images/nri-news/2024/Animals_at_waterhole_in_Namibia.jpg)
NRI’s Professor of Ecology Steve Belmain is co-author of an influential paper recently published in the Nature journal, Scientific Data. The bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intactness estimates across Africa’s major land uses...
![A group of African women preparing and serving food at a local food market.](/images/images/nri-news/2024/ladies-african-food-market.jpg)
Women play a pivotal role in the intricate web of food systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Mothers, daughters, community leaders – these are the often undervalued individuals holding the reins on critical food-linked decisions and...
![Illustration of a woman’s face silhouette in profile with group of multicultural and multiethnic women faces inside](/images/images/nri-news/2024/IWD-24.jpg)
March is a significant month in the calendar year, with International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March and the meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (6-17 March), where member states of the United Nations work to progress the agenda on...
![A mother and her two kids relaxing on a brick wall, smiling and looking happy](/images/images/nri-news/2024/FaNSI_1.Access-animal-source-foods_J-de-Bruyn-750.webp)
This week, the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) will be holding an international conference on food and nutrition security, as part of its Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (FaNSI). The two-day conference, 20-21 February 2024, will take place...
![Dr Fiorella Picchioni](/images/images/nri-news/2024/Fiorella-Picchioni.webp)
Seventy-five of the most promising research leaders, recently recognised by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will benefit from a £101 million fund to tackle major global issues and commercialise their innovations in the UK.
![NRI's Dr Steve Harte (standing) and Hugo Woodhouse, a student from Plumpton college analyse results from tests on wine samples in the chemistry lab at NRI](/images/images/nri-news/2024/Wine_analysis.webp)
Collaboration is a key feature of our work at NRI. Through high quality collaborative research, knowledge exchange and learning, NRI works to find innovative solutions to local and global challenges. This culture has led to collaborations with...
![Minimising greenhouse gases from agriculture is key to achieving Net Zero by 2050](/images/images/nri-news/2024/thumbnail_LUNZ_1-red-zeppelin-unsplash.jpg)
NRI is part of a transdisciplinary hub consisting of 34 leading research and stakeholder organisations aiming to help all four UK governments to drive the land use transformations required to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.